Michael F. Cohen – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Michael F. Cohen

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Meta, Computational Photography, Senior Fellow and _Director

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • Microsoft
  • Cornell University
  • Princeton University

Location:


  • Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Bio:

  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2017

    In addition to his position at Facebook, Michael is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. He arrived at Facebook after two decades at Microsoft Research, and has previously served on the faculties at Princeton and Cornell Universities. The Computational Photography Team at Facebook was formed in 2015 to build new ways to share photos and videos on the social media platform, including allowing Facebook users to share 3D videos and virtual reality videos to their profiles.

    Michael is also a longtime ACM SIGGRAPH volunteer, and plays a key role in the organization: leading the prestigious awards program at the SIGGRAPH conference each year.

    From Wikipedia

    Michael F. Cohen is an American computer scientist and researcher in computer graphics. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Meta in their Generative AI Group. He was a senior research scientist at Microsoft Research for 21 years until he joined Facebook (now Meta) in 2015. In 1998, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award for his work in developing radiosity methods for realistic image synthesis. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2007 for his “contributions to computer graphics and computer vision.” In 2019, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics for his groundbreaking work in numerous areas of research—radiosity, motion simulation & editing, light field rendering, matting & compositing, and computational photography.

    SIGGRAPH 1999

    Dr. Michael F. Cohen, senior researcher and manager of the Microsoft graphics research group, joined Microsoft Research in 1994 from Princeton University where he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Cohen received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Utah. He also holds undergraduate degrees in Art and Civil Engineering from Beloit College and Rutgers University, respectively, and an M.S. in Computer Graphics from Cornell. Dr. Cohen also served on the Architecture faculty at Cornell University and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah. His work at the University of Utah focused on spacetime control for linked figure animation. He is perhaps better known for his work on the radiosity method for realistic image synthesis as discussed in his recent book “Radiosity and Image Synthesis” (co-authored by John R. Wallace). Dr. Cohen has published and presented his work internationally in these areas. At Microsoft, Dr. Cohen has worked on a number of projects, including the IBMR projects “The Lumigraph” and “Layered Depth Images”. He is also involved in the “Virtual Cinematographer” project to create automatic camera placement and sequencing of shots for interactive visual experiences, and in adding expressive refinements to the work in linked figure animation. Dr. Cohen served as the papers chair for SIGGRAPH 98, where he was also awarded the 1998 Computer Graphics Achievement Award for the development of practical radiosity methods for realistic image synthesis.

    SIGGRAPH 1996

    Michael F. Cohen is currently a member of the research staff at Microsoft. He came to Microsoft from Princeton University where he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Michael received his PhD in 1992 from the University of Utah. He also holds undergraduate degrees in Art from Beloit College and in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University. He began his career in computer graphics at Cornell University, where he received an MS in 1985. Dr. Cohen also served on the Architecture faculty at Cornell University and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah. His recent work has focused on spacetime control for linked gure animation and variational modeling methods. He is perhaps better known for his work on the radiosity method for realistic image synthesis, as discussed in his recent book “Radiosity and Image Synthesis” (co-authored by John R. Wallace). His current interests range from linked gure animation, to image capture and synthesis, to intelligent camera control, and image-based rendering. Michael has published widely and presented his work internationally in these and other areas.

    SIGGRAPH 1994

    Dr. Michael Cohen is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, an M.S. degree from Cornell University, and undergraduate degrees from Rutgers University and Beloit College. From 1985-1988, he was on the faculty of the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University, where he conducted research in the area of realistic image synthesis, in particular, the development of the Radiosity Method. He has also made contributions in the area of physically based animation of linked figures. Prof. Cohen is an author (with John Wallace) of the recent book, “Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis”. Current interests include constrained optimization for animation, image synthesis, CAGD, and scientific visualization.

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