Doug James: Physics-based Animation Sound - Progress and Challenges
Date:
Wed, 02/17/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)
Event Type:
Guest Colloquium Biography: Doug L. 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 from 2006-2015. He holds three degrees in applied mathematics, including a Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of British Columbia. In 2002 he joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor, before joining Cornell in 2006. His research interests include computer graphics, computer sound, physically based animation, and reduced-order physics models. 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 recently received a Technical Achievement Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for "Wavelet Turbulence," and the 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.
FREE
Open to the Public