Doug L. James
About Doug L. James
- Affiliations
- Stanford University, School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, _Professor
- Cornell University, Associate Professor
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Location
- Stanford, California, United States of America
- Website
- https://graphics.stanford.edu/~djames/
- Bio
Excerpt from Stanford Bio 2026:
Doug L. James is the LeRa Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (since June 2015), and a member of Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME). He holds three degrees in applied mathematics, including a Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of British Columbia. In 2002 he joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor, and later became an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University (2006-2015). His research interests include computer graphics, computer sound, physically based modeling and animation, and reduced-order physics models. Doug is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a fellow of both the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received the ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Computer Graphics Achievement Award, a 2012 Technical Achievement Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for “Wavelet Turbulence,” and the 2013 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize from Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology. He was the Technical Papers Program Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015, a consulting Senior Research Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios (2015-2020), and a consulting Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA (2022-2025).
SIGGRAPH 2016
Doug James is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (since June 2015), and was previously an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University (2006-2015), and an Assistant Professor of CS/Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (2002-2006). He holds three degrees in applied mathematics, including a Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of British Columbia. Doug is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a fellow of both the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a 2012 Technical Achievement Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for “Wavelet Turbulence,” and the 2013 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize from Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology. He was the Technical Papers Program Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015, and is currently a consulting Senior Research Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios.
SIGGRAPH 2008
Doug James holds three degrees in applied mathematics, including a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2001. In 2002 he joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor, then in 2006 he became an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research interests are physically based animation, computational geometry, scientific computing, reduced-order modeling, and multi-sensory digital physics (including physics-based sound and haptic force-feedback rendering). He is a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee, and a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Additional Links
SIGGRAPH 2021 Computer Graphics Achievement Award Talk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-james-a4a26a117/
- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2021 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: James
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2021
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2003: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Learning basketball dribbling skills using trajectory optimization and deep reinforcement learning” by Liu and Hodgins
- “DeepMimic: example-guided deep reinforcement learning of physics-based character skills” by Peng, Abbeel, Levine and Panne
- “Learning symmetric and low-energy locomotion” by Yu, Turk and Liu
- “Mode-adaptive neural networks for quadruped motion control” by Zhang, Starke, Komura and Saito
- “T-junctions in Spline Surfaces” by Karciauskas, Panozzo and Peters
- “Detailed water with coarse grids: combining surface meshes and adaptive discontinuous Galerkin” by Edwards and Bridson
- “Blending liquids” by Raveendran, Wojtan, Thuerey and Turk
- “Augmented MPM for phase-change and varied materials” by Stomakhin, Schroeder, Jiang, Chai, Teran, et al. …
- “From capture to simulation: connecting forward and inverse problems in fluids” by Gregson, Ihrke, Thuerey and Heidrich
- “Smoke rings from smoke” by Weißmann, Pinkall and Schröder
- “Super space clothoids” by Casati and Bertails
- “Thin skin elastodynamics” by Li, Sueda, Neog and Pai
- “Embedded thin shells for wrinkle simulation” by Kry and Rémillard
- “Folding and crumpling adaptive sheets” by Narain, Pfaff and O’Brien
- “Adaptive fracture simulation of multi-layered thin plates” by Busaryev, Dey and Wang
Other Information
- Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Awardee
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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