Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Award Type: Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award



Sofien Bouaziz
Awarded Work: Realtime Face Tracking and Animation
Awarded to:
Eduardo Simões Lopes Gastal
Awarded Work: Efficient High-Dimensional Filtering for Image and Video Processing
Abe Davis
Awarded Work: Visual Vibration Analysis
Awarded to:
Felix Heide
Awarded Work: Structure-Aware Computational Imaging
Awarded to:
Matthew O'Toole
Awarded Work: Optical Linear Algebra for Computational Light Transport
Awarded to:
Jun-Yan Zhu
Awarded Work: Learning to Synthesize and Manipulate Natural Images
Awarded to:
Angela Dai
Awarded Work: Using Generative Deep Learning To Create High-Quality Models From 3D Scans
Awarded to:
Adrianna Schulz
Awarded Work: Computational design for the next manufacturing revolution
Awarded to:
Hao Su
Awarded Work: Self-Assembling Prodrugs: From Supramolecular Polymer to Supramolecular Medicine
Awarded to:
Lingqi Yan
Awarded Work: Physically-based Modeling and Rendering of Complex Visual Appearance
Awarded to:
Raymond Yun Fei
Awarded Work: Multi-Scale MModels to Simulate Interactions between Liquid and Thin Structures
Awarded to:
Mina Konaković Luković
Awarded Work: Computational Design of Auxetic Shells
Tzu-Mao Li
Awarded Work: Differentiable Visual Computing
Awarded to:
Minchen Li
Awarded Work: Robust and Accurate Simulation of Elastodynamics and Contact
Awarded to:
David Lindell
Awarded Work: Computational Imaging with Single-Photon Detectors
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2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award: Yuanming Hu
Awarded Work: The Taichi High-Performance and Differentiable Programming Language for Sparse and Quantized Visual Computing
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2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award: Xuebin (Jason) Peng
Awarded Work: Acquiring Motor Skills Through Motion Imitation and Reinforcement Learning
Awarded to:
Georg Sperl
Awarded Work: Homogenizing Yarn Simulations: Large-scale mechanics, small-scale detail, and quantitative fitting
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2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award: Cheng Zhang
Awarded Work: Path-Space Differentiable Rendering
Awarded to:
Zachary Ferguson
Awarded Work: Provably Robust and Accurate Methods for Rigid and Deformable Simulation with Contact
Awarded to:
Yu Wang
Awarded Work: Geometric Computing beyond the Laplacian
Awarded to:
Fangchen Zhong
Awarded Work: Path from Photorealism to Perceptual Realism
Awarded to:
Suyeon Choi
Awarded Work: Design of holographic display systems based on artificial intelligence
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2025 SIGGRAPH Award: Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award - Rohan Sawhney
Awarded Work: Monte Carlo Geometry Processing: A Grid-Free Approach to Solving Partial Differential Equations on Volumetric Domains
Awarded to:
Silvia Sellan
Awarded Work: Task-Aware 3D Geometric Synthesis
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