He taught at
Yale University and the
University of Arizona before moving to Princeton in 1981. He was initially appointed to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton and was subsequently named one of the first professors of Computer Science when that department was formed in 1985. He was chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton from 1994 to 2003, and in 2003 was appointed Dean of the Faculty. David Dobkin also chaired the governing board of
The Geometry Center, a NSF-established research and education center at the
University of Minnesota. Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals. ==Recognition==