Doug L. James
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Pixar Animation Studios, Stanford University, Cornell University, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Bio:
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.
Course Organizer:
Award(s):
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
Phong deformation: a better C0 interpolant for embedded deformation Presenter(s): [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Technical Papers]
KleinPAT: optimal mode conflation for time-domain precomputation of acoustic transfer Presenter(s): [Wang] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Dynamic kelvinlets: secondary motions based on fundamental solutions of elastodynamics Presenter(s): [Goes] [James]
Entry No.: [81]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Toward wave-based sound synthesis for computer animation Presenter(s): [Wang] [Qu] [Langlois] [James]
Entry No.: [109]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Animating elastic rods with sound Presenter(s): [Schweickart] [James] [Marschner]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Bounce maps: an improved restitution model for real-time rigid-body impact Presenter(s): [Wang] [Setaluri] [James] [Pai]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Regularized kelvinlets: sculpting brushes based on fundamental solutions of elasticity Presenter(s): [Goes] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Eigenmode compression for modal sound models Presenter(s): [Langlois] [An] [Jin] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Inverse-Foley animation: synchronizing rigid-body motions to sound Presenter(s): [Langlois] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Fabricating articulated characters from skinned meshes Presenter(s): [Bächer] [Bickel] [James] [Pfister]
[SIGGRAPH 2012]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Stitch meshes for modeling knitted clothing with yarn-level detail Presenter(s): [Yuksel] [Kaldor] [James] [Marschner]
[SIGGRAPH 2012]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Efficient yarn-based cloth with adaptive contact linearization Presenter(s): [Kaldor] [James] [Marschner]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Rigid-body fracture sound with precomputed soundbanks Presenter(s): [Zheng] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Subspace self-collision culling Presenter(s): [Barbic] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
Learning Moderator Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
DeepMimic: example-guided deep reinforcement learning of physics-based character skills Presenter(s): [Peng] [Abbeel] [Levine] [Panne]
Entry No.: [143]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning basketball dribbling skills using trajectory optimization and deep reinforcement learning Presenter(s): [Liu] [Hodgins]
Entry No.: [142]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning symmetric and low-energy locomotion Presenter(s): [Yu] [Turk] [Liu]
Entry No.: [144]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Mode-adaptive neural networks for quadruped motion control Presenter(s): [Zhang] [Starke] [Komura] [Saito]
Entry No.: [145]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: []
T-junctions in Spline Surfaces Presenter(s): [Karciauskas] [Panozzo] [Peters]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Augmented MPM for phase-change and varied materials Presenter(s): [Stomakhin] [Schroeder] [Jiang] [Chai] [Teran] [Selle]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Blending liquids Presenter(s): [Raveendran] [Wojtan] [Thuerey] [Turk]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Detailed water with coarse grids: combining surface meshes and adaptive discontinuous Galerkin Presenter(s): [Edwards] [Bridson]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
From capture to simulation: connecting forward and inverse problems in fluids Presenter(s): [Gregson] [Ihrke] [Thuerey] [Heidrich]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Smoke rings from smoke Presenter(s): [Weißmann] [Pinkall] [Schröder]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Adaptive fracture simulation of multi-layered thin plates Presenter(s): [Busaryev] [Dey] [Wang]
[SIGGRAPH 2013]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Embedded thin shells for wrinkle simulation Presenter(s): [Kry] [Rémillard]
[SIGGRAPH 2013]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Folding and crumpling adaptive sheets Presenter(s): [Narain] [Pfaff] [O'Brien]
[SIGGRAPH 2013]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Super space clothoids Presenter(s): [Casati] [Bertails-Descoubes]
[SIGGRAPH 2013]
Role(s):
- Awardee
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair