David
Salesin is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science &
Engineering at the University of
Washington, where he has been on the faculty since 1992; as
well as an Adobe Fellow, where he has led
the Creative Technologies Lab
since 2005. He received his Sc.B. from Brown
University in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Stanford
University in 1991. From 1983-87, he worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar, where he contributed computer animation
for the Academy Award-winning short film, "Tin Toy," and the
feature-length film, Young Sherlock Holmes. He spent the 1991-92 year as
a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program
of Computer Graphics at Cornell
University. In 1996, he co-founded two companies, where he served as Chief
Scientist: Inklination
and Numinous Technologies. When the latter
was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, he
worked as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Research until 2005, while remaining on the UW faculty. Over the years, he
has also worked as an intern or consultant at a number of production studios
and research labs, including Sogitec Audiovisuel (in
Paris), DEC Systems Research Center, DEC Paris Research Lab, Aldus (now part of
Adobe), Xerox
PARC, and Broderbund.
Salesin received an NSF Young Investigator award in 1993; an ONR Young Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in 1995; the University of Washington Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in the College of Engineering in 1996; the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997; The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education 1998-1999 Washington Professor of the Year Award in 1998; and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2000. He was named a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University and an ACM Fellow in 2002.
Salesin's research interests are in computer graphics and include digital photography and video, automatic design & presentation of information, non-photorealistic rendering, visualization, image-based rendering, digital typography, and color. His outside interests include Tango, photography, Aikido (in which he holds a black belt), printmaking, piano, saxophone, flying, traveling, cooking, old films, backpacking, skiing, mountain biking, and chocolate.
Additional information:
- Curriculum vitae
- Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL)
- University of Washington 2003 Convocation Address: College and the Art of Life
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