Alla Sheffer
About Alla Sheffer
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (UBC), Computer Science
- Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
Alla Sheffer is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she investigates algorithms for geometry processing in the context of computer graphics applications. She is best known for her research on mesh parameterization, hexahedral meshing, computational garment design, and perception driven shape modeling. Dr. Sheffer is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and the Royal Society of Canada. She is a member of SIGGRAPH Academy and a recipient of the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award’18. She served as an Associate Editor of ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, and CGF. She is the Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH’23.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
Alla Sheffer is an associate professor in the Computer Science department at The University of British Columbia. She investigates algorithmic aspects of digital geometry processing, focusing on several fundamental problems of mesh manipulation and editing. Her recent research addresses algorithms for mesh parameterization, processing of developable surfaces, mesh editing, reconstruction, and shape analysis. Her work on these topics had been published at top venues, including SIGGRAPH, EuroGraphics, and the Symposium on Geometry Processing. She co-authored several parameterization methods, including ABF/ABF++, which are used in popular 3D modelers including Blender, Maya, and Catia. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999. Prior to moving to UBC in 2003, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an assistant professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- Awards and Recognition
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2020
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2010: Art + Tech Showcase
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2022: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Technical Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2022: Technical Papers
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Technical Papers
SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions
- Steering Committee Member
- ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
- Presentations
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- Sessions Moderated
- “Field-aligned online surface reconstruction” by Schertler, Tarini, Jakob, Kazhdan, Gumhold, et al. …
- “Topology-controlled reconstruction of multi-labelled domains from cross-sections” by Huang, Zou, Carr and Ju
- “BundleFusion: Real-Time Globally Consistent 3D Reconstruction Using On-the-Fly Surface Reintegration”
- “Tanks and temples: benchmarking large-scale scene reconstruction” by Knapitsch, Park, Zhou and Koltun
- “Dip transform for 3D shape reconstruction” by Aberman, Katzir, Zhou, Luo, Sharf, et al. …
- “An efficient computation of handle and tunnel loops via Reeb graphs” by Dey, Fan and Wang
- “Robust inside-outside segmentation using generalized winding numbers” by Jacobson, Kavan and Sorkine-Hornung
- “Putting holes in holey geometry: topology change for arbitrary surfaces” by Bernstein and Wojtan
- “MeshGit: diffing and merging meshes for polygonal modeling” by Denning and Pellacini
- Courses Organized
- “Mesh Parameterization: Theory and Practice” by Desbrun and Zhou
Other Information
- Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- 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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