Alec Jacobson
About Alec Jacobson
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto, Geometry Processing, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair
- Adobe Inc., Adobe Research
- ETH Zürich
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Bio
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.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2015: Courses
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2022: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2018: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
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- Presentations
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Presenter(s):Entry #: 43
Presenter(s):Entry #: 60 - Sessions Moderated
- “Fast and deep deformation approximations” by Bailey, Otte, DiLorenzo and O’Brien
- “Numerical coarsening using discontinuous shape functions” by Chen, Bao, Wang, Desbrun and Huang
- “Magnetization dynamics for magnetic object interactions” by Kim, Park and Han
- “Stable Neo-Hookean Flesh Simulation” by Smith, Goes and Kim
- “Bounding proxies for shape approximation” by Calderon and Boubekeur
- “Spatiotemporal atlas parameterization for evolving meshes” by Prada, Kazhdan, Chuang, Collet and Hoppe
- “FlowRep: descriptive curve networks for free-form design shapes” by Gori, Sheffer, Carr, Ju, Vining, et al. …
- “Functional Characterization of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Geometry” by Corman, Solomon, Ben-Chen, Guibas and Ovsjanikov
- “Layered fields for natural tessellations on surfaces”
- “Meshless voronoi on the GPU”
- “There are 174 subdivisions of the hexahedron into tetrahedra”
- “Delaunay mesh simplification with differential evolution”
- “Curve-pleated structures” by Jiang, Mundilova, Rist, Wallner and Pottmann
- “Modeling curved folding with freeform deformations” by Rabinovich, Hoffmann and Sorkine-Hornung
- “Checkerboard patterns with black rectangles” by Peng, Jiang, Wonka and Pottmann
- “Chebyshev nets from commuting PolyVector fields” by Sageman-Furnas, Chern, Ben-Chen and Vaxman
- “Discrete geodesic parallel coordinates” by Wang, Pellis, Rist, Pottmann and Müller
- “Schur Complement-based Substructuring of Stiff Multibody Systems with Contact” by Andrews, Teichmann, Kry, Kovecses and Peiret
- “Accelerating ADMM for efficient simulation and optimization” by Zhang, Peng, Ouyang and Deng
- “A scalable galerkin multigrid method for real-time simulation of deformable objects” by Xian, Tong and Liu
- “Material-adapted refinable basis functions for elasticity simulation” by Chen, Budninskiy, Owhadi, Bao, Huang, et al. …
- “Accelerated complex-step finite difference for expedient deformable simulation” by Luo, Xu, Shao, Xu and Yang
Other Information
- Roles
- Awardee
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Courses Organizing Committee Member
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Posters Organizing Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Technical Awards Committee Member
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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