Alec Jacobson – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Alec Jacobson

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • University of Toronto, Geometry Processing, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair

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  • Adobe Inc.
  • ETH Zürich

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  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

    Alec Jacobson is a post-doctoral researcher at Columbia University. He received a BA and an MA in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, and a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. His thesis on real-time deformation techniques for 2D and 3D shapes was awarded the ETH Medal and the Eurographics Best PhD award. His research incorporates finite-element method and constrained optimization to design automatic weighting functions for skinning. He is also interested in novel input devices for character animation and robust meshing techniques for 3D volumes. He has published several papers in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH.

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