Ariel Shamir – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Ariel Shamir

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • Reichman University
  • The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  • SIGGRAPH 2020

    Prof. Ariel Shamir is the Dean of the Efi Arazi school of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and spent two years as PostDoc in the computational visualization centre at UT Austin. Ariel has numerous publications and a number of patents. He was listed on the Thomson Reuters highly cited researchers in 2015. Ariel has a broad commercial experience consulting various companies including Disney research, Mitsubishi Electric, PrimeSense (now Apple), Verisk and more. He specializes in geometric modeling, computer graphics, image processing and machine learning.??

    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014

    Ariel Shamir is a Professor at the school of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, where he is currently the vice-dean. Prof. Shamir received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He spent two years at the center for computational visualization at the University of Texas in Austin. He was a visiting scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge MA (2006), Disney Research Boston, and MIT (2013). Prof. Shamir has numerous publications in journals and international refereed conferences, and a broad commercial experience working with, and consulting numerous companies including Mitsubishi Electric, Disney, PrimeSense (now Apple) and more. He is an associate editor for Computer Graphics Forum and Computers and Graphics journals. Prof. Shamir specializes in geometric modeling, computer graphics and machine learning.

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

    Ariel Shamir is a senior lecturer at the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Israel. He received his PhD in computer science in 2000 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has published and presented in journals, tutorials, and lectures in several international conferences. He also has broad commercial experience in managing and consulting with several companies, including Mistubishi Electric and Disney Research. He has co-authored several patents both internationally and in the US, including the patents on seam-carving.

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  • ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member

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