Pierre Alliez
About Pierre Alliez
- Affiliations
- Inria Sophia Antipolis, Senior Researcher
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 2008
Pierre Alliez obtained his PhD from Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications, did his postdoc at Caltech, and is researcher at INRIA since 2001. His main research interests are on topics commonly referred to as Geometry Processing: geometry compression, surface approximation, mesh parameterization, surface remeshing and mesh generation. He is this year co-chair of the EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Geometry Processing. In 2005 Pierre Alliez received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
Pierre Alliez is a researcher at INRIA Sophia Antipolis – Mediterranean, France. He obtained a PhD fromEcole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and spent a year as a post-doc at the University of Southern California. His main research interests are in geometry processing. He has worked on various program committees, including SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing. In 2005, he was awarded the Eurographics Young Researcher Award, and he was co-chair of the Symposium on Geometry Processing in 2008. He is a member of the CGAL Editorial Board.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2007: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Erosion thickness on medial axes of 3D shapes” by Thiery, Boubekeur, Eisemann and Guy
- “Animated Mesh Approximation With Sphere-Meshes” by Thiery, Boubekeur, Eisemann and Guy
- “Mesh arrangements for solid geometry”
- “Q-MAT: Computing Medial Axis Transform By Quadratic Error Minimization” by Yan, Sykes, Chambers, Letscher and Ju
- Courses Organized
- “Computational Geometry Algorithms Library” by Fabri and Rineau
Other Information
- Roles
- Course Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
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