Marc Alexa
About Marc Alexa
- Affiliations
- The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research Boston
- Technical University of Berlin
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Marc Alexa is a Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and heads the Computer Graphics group. He is interested in the representation, generation, modification, and analysis of shapes in three and more dimensions. He has been Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions in Graphics, the leading venues in the field. Throughout his career, he received a variety of awards, distinctions, and grants from the European Research Council, Apple Inc., the German Science Foundation, Google, Walt Disney Animation Studios, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and others.
- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2024 Technical Paper Test-of-Time Award: Eitz, Hays and Alexa
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2022
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Chair
- SIGGRAPH 2007: Sketches
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
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- Sessions Moderated
- “Developability of triangle meshes” by Stein, Grinspun and Crane
- “Natural Boundary Conditions for Smoothing in Geometry Processing” by Stein, Grinspun, Wardetzky and Jacobson
- “Shape representation by zippables” by Schüller, Poranne and Sorkine-Hornung
- “The shape space of discrete orthogonal geodesic nets” by Rabinovich, Hoffman and Sorkine-Hornung
- “Real-Time Nonlinear Shape Interpolation” by Tycowicz and Hildebrandt
- “Zoomorphic design” by Duncan, Yu, Yeung and Terzopoulos
- “Shading-based refinement on volumetric signed distance functions”
- Courses Organized
- “Interactive Shape Editing” by Cani, Frisken, Schkolne, Singh and Zorin
Other Information
- Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Awardee
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Posters Organizing Committee Chair
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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