In 1972 he began teaching and doing research in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition, and computational geometry. During the summers of 1975 and 1977 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. The sabbatical year 1980-81 he spent as a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Mathematics Research Center of the University of Montreal. During the spring of 1986 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. During the fall of 1988 he was a British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute Fellow at Simon Fraser University. In the spring of 1989 he was a Visiting Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, and during the summer of 1989 he was a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam. He spent the sabbatical year 1995-96 in Australia and Spain. In the fall of 1995 he was a Vice-Chancellor's Research Best Practice Fellow at the University of Newcastle. In the spring and summer of 1996 he held Visiting Professor appointments in the Departments of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Madrid and Barcelona, respectively.  On September 1, 2007 he was promoted to Professor Emeritus. In 2009 he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2009-1010 academic year. Presently he is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Harvard University, as well as a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University.

Dr. Toussaint has been a council-member of the North American Branch of the Classification Society, an Editor of the journal Discrete & Computational Geometry, an Associate Editor of the journals: Pattern Recognition, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the Visual Computer, and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Presently, he is Associate Editor of Computational Geometry:Theory and Applications, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. He is also an Editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, and the journals: Forma and Revista Investigacion Operacional. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He is a former member of the Pattern Recognition Society and a current member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has edited two books published by North Holland, Computational Geometry in 1985 and Computational Morphology in 1988. He has also served as a guest editor for four journal special issues on computational geometry: The Visual Computer (the May issue of 1988 and issue No. 8 of 1994), The Proceedings of the IEEE (September 1992) and Pattern Recognition Letters (September 1993). In 1978 he was the recipient of the Pattern Recognition Society's Best Paper of the Year Award and in 1985 he was awarded a Senior Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council to carry out a two- year research project on movable separability of sets. In 1996 he was awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society's Service Award for his "Outstanding Contribution to Research and Education in Computational Geometry." In May 2001 he was awarded the David Thomson Award for excellence in graduate supervision and teaching at McGill University. In February 2005 he became a Collaborator in The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. In 2009 he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2009-1010 academic year. During the 2010-2011 academic year he was a Research Scholar in the Music Department at Harvard University doing research on music cognition with Professor Olaf Post.
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Godfried T. Toussaint is a Professor and Head of Computer Science at University of New York Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In 1972 he began teaching and doing research in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition, computational geometry, instance-based learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory. On September 1, 2007 he was promoted to Professor Emeritus. In 2005 he also became a Collaborator in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. He is a founder of several conferences and workshops, an editor of several journals, has received numerous awards, and has published more than 360 papers. In 2009 he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2009-1010 academic year.
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Godfried T. Toussaint is a Professor and Head of Computer Science at University of New York Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Since then he has been teaching and doing research in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal, in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition, textile-pattern analysis and design, computational geometry, instance-based learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory. On September 1, 2007 he was promoted to Professor Emeritus. In 2005 he became a Collaborator in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. In 1978 he was the recipient of the Pattern Recognition Society's Best Paper of the Year Award and in 1985 he was awarded a Senior Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council. In May 2001 he was awarded the David Thomson Award for excellence in graduate supervision and teaching at McGill University. He is a founder of several conferences and workshops, an editor of several journals, has appeared on television programs to explain his research on the mathematical analysis of flamenco rhythms, and has published more than 350 papers. In 2009 he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2009-1010 academic year.
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