Alla Sheffer
Alla Sheffer FRSC | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Known for | Mesh parameterization, angle-based flattening |
| Awards | Achievement Award (Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society, 2018), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020), ACM SIGGRAPH Academy (2020), Fellow of IEEE (2021), ACM Fellow (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Geometry Processing, Mesh Generation |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Bercovier |
Alla Sheffer FRSC is a Canadian researcher in computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing, and mesh generation, particularly known for her research on mesh parameterization and angle-based flattening.[1] She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia.[citation needed]
Education and career
[edit]Sheffer was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1991, a master's degree in computer science in 1995, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1999.[2] Her dissertation, Geometric Modeling and Applied Computational Geometry, was supervised by Michel Bercovier.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, she became an assistant professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2001. She moved to the University of British Columbia in 2003, and became a full professor there in 2013.[2]
Recognition
[edit]The Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society gave Sheffer their Achievement Award in 2018, "for her numerous highly impactful contributions to the field of computer graphics research".[1]
In 2020, Sheffer was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[4]and a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy.[5] In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of IEEE.[6] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to geometry processing, mesh parameterization, and perception-driven shape analysis and modeling".[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Alla Sheffer", CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award, Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society, retrieved 2020-11-13
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-11-13
- ^ Alla Sheffer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ RSC Fellow Class of 2020 (PDF), Royal Society of Canada, retrieved 2020-11-13
- ^ ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, ACM SIGGRAPH, 6 May 2018, retrieved 2021-06-15
- ^ NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOW CLASS 2021 (PDF), IEEE, archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-12-06, retrieved 2021-06-15
- ^ ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation, Association for Computing Machinery, 19 January 2022, retrieved 2022-01-19
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Alla Sheffer publications indexed by Google Scholar
| International | |
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| National | |
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- Living people
- Canadian computer scientists
- Canadian women computer scientists
- Israeli computer scientists
- Israeli women computer scientists
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2021 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery