Holly E. Rushmeier
About Holly E. Rushmeier
- Affiliations
- Yale University, Computer Science, Professor
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Research Staff Member
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- IBM Corporation, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Location
- New Haven, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024:
Holly Rushmeier is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Her research interests include shape and appearance capture, applications of perception in computer graphics, modeling material appearance and developing computational tools for cultural heritage.
Holly Rushmeier received a BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, 1986 and 1988 respectively. Between receiving the BS and returning to graduate school in 1983 she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company and at Washington Natural Gas Company (now a part of Puget Sound Energy). In 1988 she joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech. While there she conducted sponsored research in the area of computer graphics image synthesis and taught classes heat transfer and numerical methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the end of 1991 Holly Rushmeier joined the computing and mathematics staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, focusing on scientific data visualization.
From 1996 to early 2004 Rushmeier was a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. At IBM she worked on a variety of data visualization problems in applications ranging from engineering to finance. She also worked in the area of acquisition of data required for generating realistic computer graphics models, including a project to create a digital model of Michelangelo’s Florence Pieta, and the development of a scanning system to capture shape and appearance data for presenting Egyptian cultural artifacts on the World Wide Web.
Rushmeier was Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 1996-99 and co-EiC of Computer Graphics Forum (2010-2014). She has also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. She currently serves the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, ACM Transactions on Graphics, the Visual Computer and Computers and Graphics. In 1996 she served as the papers chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference, in 1998, 2004, and 2005 as the papers co-chair for the IEEE Visualization conference and in 2000 as the papers co-chair for the Eurographics Rendering Workshop. She has also served in numerous program committees including multiple years on the committees for SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, Eurographics Rendering Workshop/Symposium, and Graphics Interface.
Rushmeier is a fellow of the ACM and of the Eurographics Association. She has lectured at many meetings and academic institutions, including invited keynote presentations at international meetings (Eurographics Rendering Workshop 94, 3DIM 01 , Eurographics Conference 2001 and 2012, Pacific Graphics 2010, SCCG 2013, CGI 2014, CAA 2015 and VISAPP 2017.) She has spoken at and/or organized many tutorials and panels at the SIGGRAPH and IEEE Visualization conferences. Rushmeier served as chair of the Computer Science Department, July 2011- July 2014.
SIGGRAPH 2022
Holly Rushmeier is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, and has led a distinguished career in computer graphics research, receiving among many other honors the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for her work on global illumination, material capture, and the display on high dynamic range images. Her work has enriched our quantitative understanding of every aspect of rendering, from the microscopic characteristics of scattering to the broader representation of appearance to the perception of images by the human visual system. Holly has also applied her work on capture to preservation of world’s cultural heritage.
SIGGRAPH 2009
Holly Rushmeier received a BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, 1986, and 1988 respectively. Between receiving the BS and returning to graduate school in 1983 she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company and at Washington Natural Gas Company (now a part of Puget Sound Energy). In 1988 she joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech. While there she conducted sponsored research in the area of computer graphics image synthesis and taught classes heat transfer and numerical methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the end of 1991 Dr. Rushmeier joined the computing and mathematics staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, focusing on scientific data visualization.
From 1996 to early 2004 Dr. Rushmeier was a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. At IBM she worked on a variety of data visualization problems in applications ranging from engineering to finance. She also worked in the area of acquisition of data required for generating realistic computer graphics models, including a project to create a digital model of Michelangelo’s Florence Pieta, and the development of a scanning system to capture shape and appearance data for presenting Egyptian cultural artifacts on the World Wide Web.
Dr. Rushmeier was Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 1996-99. She has also served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. She is currently on the editorial boards of Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage and ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. In 1996 she served as the papers chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference, in 1998, 2004 and 2005 as the papers’ co-chair for the IEEE Visualization conference and in 2000 as the papers co- chair for the Eurographics Rendering Workshop. She has also served in numerous program committees including multiple years on the committees for SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, Eurographics Rendering Workshop, and Graphics Interface.
SIGGRAPH 2008
Holly Rushmeier received a BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, 1986, and 1988 respectively. Between receiving the BS and returning to graduate school in 1983 she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company and at Washington Natural Gas Company (now a part of Puget Sound Energy). In 1988 she joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech. While there she conducted sponsored research in the area of computer graphics image synthesis and taught
classes heat transfer and numerical methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the end of 1991, Dr. Rushmeier joined the computing and mathematics staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, focusing on scientific data visualization.From 1996 to early 2004 Dr. Rushmeier was a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. At IBM she worked on a variety of data visualization problems in applications ranging from engineering to finance. She also worked in the area of acquisition of data required for generating realistic computer graphics models, including a project to create a digital model of Michelangelo’s Florence Pieta, and the development of a scanning system to capture shape and appearance data for presenting Egyptian cultural artifacts on the World Wide Web.
Dr. Rushmeier was Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 1996-99. She has also served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. She is currently on the editorial boards of Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Computer Graphics and Application, ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage and ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. In 1996 she served as the papers chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference, in 1998, 2004, and 2005 as the papers co-chair for the IEEE Visualization conference and in 2000 as the papers co-chair for the Eurographics Rendering Workshop.
She has also served in numerous program committees including multiple years on the committees for SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, Eurographics Rendering Workshop, and Graphics Interface.
SIGGRAPH 2004
Holly Rushmeier is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Her research interest include realistic rendering, 3D object digital capture, applications of perception to graphics, data visualization and cultural heritage. She was part of the teams that constructed digital models used in the study documented in Michelangelo’s Florence Piet (Princeton Press, 2003), and in the Egyptian Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage website www.eternalegypt.org. She has served as papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization and the Eurographics Rendering Symposium, and was formerly Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics.
SIGGRAPH 1999
Holly Rushmeier is a research staff member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. She received a BS (1977), MS (1986), and PhD (1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Since receiving the PhD, she has held positions at Georgia Tech, and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In 1990, she was selected as a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator. In 1996, she served as the Papers chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference and in 1998 the Papers co-chair for the IEEE Visualization conference. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions in Graphics. She has published numerous papers in the areas of data visualization, computer graphics image synthesis and thermal sciences. In the area of global illumination she has worked on the problems of comparing real and synthetic images, imaging participating media, and combining ray tracing and radiosity methods. Most recently she has worked on accurate tone reproduction for high dynamic range images, and systems for acquiring physical data for realistic rendering.
SIGGRAPH 1994
Holly Rushmeier is on the staff of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She received a BS (1977), MS (1986), and PhD (1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Following receipt of the B.S. degree she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, and at the Washington Natural Gas Company (both in Seattle, WA). Upon completion of the Ph.D., she served on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was the recipient of an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. She is the author of articles in the fields of computer graphics and in radiative heat transfer. Her research interests include computer graphics synthetic image generation, scientific visualization, and radiant heat transfer.
SIGGRAPH 1993
Holly Rushmeier (chair) is on the staff of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She received a BS(1977), MS(1986), and PhD(1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Following receipt of the BS she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, and at the Washington Natural Gas Company (both in Seattle, WA). Upon completion of the PhD, she served on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech, where she was the recipient of an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. She is the author of articles in the fields of computer graphics and in radiative heat transfer. Her research interests include computer graphics synthetic image generation, scientific visualization, and radiant heat transfer.
SIGGRAPH 1992
Holly Rushmeier is a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Until recently, she was an Assistant Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Following receipt of the BS degree she worked as an engineer at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, and at the Washington Natural Gas Company (both in Seattle, WA). She is the author of numerous articles both in the field of computer graphics and in radiative heat transfer. Her research interests include computer graphics synthetic image generation, infrared signature analysis, and radiant heat transfer.
- Additional Information
Additional Email: holly.rushmeier@yale.edu
- SIGGRAPH Member Profile
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- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2013 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Rushmeier
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2018
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2001: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2015: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2020: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH 2004: Panels
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2022: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2008: Sketches
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH 1997: Sketches
Conference Contributions
- Artwork Collaborations
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- Experiences
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- Presentations
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- Sessions Moderated
- “3D printing spatially varying color and translucency” by Brunton, Arikan, Tanksale and Urban
- “Fabricating reflectors for displaying multiple images” by Sakurai, Dobashi, Iwasaki and Nishita
- “Computational design of nanostructural color for additive manufacturing” by Auzinger, Heidrich and Bickel
- “Skaterbots: optimization-based design and motion synthesis for robotic creatures with legs and wheels” by Geilinger, Poranne, Desai and Coros
- “Beyond points and beams: higher-dimensional photon samples for volumetric light transport” by Bitterli and Jarosz
- “Spectral and decomposition tracking for rendering heterogeneous volumes” by Kutz, Habel, Li and Novák
- “Lighting grid hierarchy for self-illuminating explosions” by Bitterli and Jarosz
- “A forward scattering dipole model from a functional integral approximation” by Kutz, Habel, Li and Novák
- “Robust Adaptive Photon Tracing Using Photon-Path Visibility” by Hachisuka and Jensen
- “Adaptive Progressive Photon Mapping” by Kaplanyan and Dachsbacher
- “Gradient-domain metropolis light transport” by Lehtinen, Karras, Laine, Aittala, Durand, et al. …
- “Axis-aligned filtering for interactive physically-based diffuse indirect lighting” by Mehta, Wang, Ramamoorthi and Durand
- “A progressive global illumination solution considering perceptual factors” by Volevich, Sas, Myszkowski, Khodulev and Kopylov
- “Interactive modification of real and virtual lights for augmented reality” by Loscos, Drettakis and Robert
- “Radiance maps: an image-based approach to global illumination” by Slusallek, Heidrich and Seidel
- “Visibility driven hierarchical radiosity” by Durand, Drettakis and Puech
- “A general model for the simulation of room acoustics based on hierachical radiosity” by Tsingos and Gascuel
- “A fast algorithm for illumination from curved reflectors” by Patow
- “Volumetric modeling with implicit functions: a cloud is born” by Ebert
- “Visual simulation of waterfalls and other water phenomena” by Howes and Forrest
- “Modeling the accumulation of wind-driven snow” by Feldman and O’Brien
- “The simulation of fluid-rigid body interaction” by Takahashi, Ueki, Kunimatsu and Fujii
- “Modal analysis for real-time viscoelastic deformation” by Shen, Hauser, Gatchalian and O’Brien
- “Firefighter training virtual environment” by St. Julien and Shaw
- “ICARUS: interactive reconstruction from uncalibrated image sequences” by Gibson, Cook, Howard and Hubbold
- “Shape from distortion: 3D range scanning of mirroring objects” by Tarini, Lensch, Goesele and Seidel
- “Pop.eye: a pop-out video camera system for personal use” by Mihara, Harashima, Numazaki and Doi
- “An inexpensive 3D camera” by Strat and Oliveira
- Courses Organized
- “Making Radiosity Practical” by Rushmeier, Borel, Cohen, Dorsey, Hanrahan, et al. …
- “Advanced Topics in Radiosity” by Rushmeier, Cohen, Lischinski, Schröder, Shirley, et al. …
- “A Basic Guide to Global Illumination” by Rushmeier, Banks and Shirley
- “Case Study: Scanning Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietá” by Rushmeier, Bernardini and Mittleman
- “Digital Modeling of the Appearance of Materials” by Dorsey
- “Digital Modeling of the Appearance of Materials” by Dorsey and Sillion
Other Information
- Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Art Show Artist
- Awardee
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Panels Jury Member
- Panels Organizing Committee Member
- Poster Presenter
- Posters Organizing Committee Member
- Real-Time Live Presenter
- Retrospective Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Administrative Assistant
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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