Bio Sketch

Dinesh Mehta is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Colorado 
School of Mines. He received degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the 
University of Minnesota and the University of Florida, all in Computer Science. He served 
as Assistant Department Head from 2004-2008 and Interim Department Head from 2008-2010.  
Dr. Mehta is a co-author of the text Fundamentals of Data Structures in C++ and co-editor 
of the Handbook on Data Structures and Applications and the Handbook of Algorithms for 
VLSI Physical Design Automation. His research interests and publications are in algorithms 
and data structures, which he has primarily applied to problems arising in VLSI design 
automation and recently in cheminformatics.