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David H. Salesin

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Brown University, Associate Professor

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  • University of Washington
  • Adobe Inc.

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  • SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016

    David Salesin is a Fellow at Adobe, where he has led the Creative Technologies Lab since 2005, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, where he has been on the faculty since 1992. He received his Sc.B. from Brown in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1991. From 1983-87, he worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award; the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. He is a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University and an ACM Fellow.

    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015

    David Salesin is a Fellow at Adobe, where he has led the Creative Technologies Lab since 2005, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, where he has been on the faculty since 1992. He received his Sc.B. from Brown in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1991. From 1983-87, he worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award; the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. He is a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University and an ACM Fellow.

    SIGGRAPH 1996

    David Salesin teaches Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he has recently been promoted to Associate Professor. He received his ScB from Brown University in 1983, his PhD from Stanford University in 1991, and joined the faculty at the University of Washington in the fall of that year. From 1983-86, he worked at Lucasfilm, where he contributed computer animation for the Academy Award-winning short  film, “Tin Toy,” and  the feature-length film Young Sherlock Holmes. He spent the 1991-92 year on leave as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University. In 1993, he received an NSF Young Investigator award. In 1995, he received an ONR Young Investigator Award and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow. Professor Salesin’s research interests are in computer graphics, and include photorealistic image synthesis and computer-generated illustration in particular. He has had a major impact on the use of wavelets in computer graphics and is co-author (with Eric Stollnitz and Tony DeRose) of the forthcoming book “Wavelets for Computer Graphics” (Morgan-Kaufman).  

     

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