From time to time, IEEE Computer Graphics & Animation gives an Outstanding Guest Editor Award for extraordinary contributions to the magazine. This year, the award was given to three awardees:
for their incredible work on the July/August CG&A Special Issue celebrating 50 ACM SIGGRAPH Conferences. ACM SIGGRAPH congratulates its members for their outstanding contributions to the Special Issue.
ACM SIGGRAPH is recruiting for a Chair for the Awards Committee. This chair will join the ranks of the standing committee chairs who assist the Executive Committee in nurturing and supporting the community of computer graphics researchers and practitioners.
A listing of the current standing chairs and their roles can be found here: https://www.siggraph.org/about/acm-siggraph-committees
The Awards Chair will supervise and facilitate all of the awards committees of ACM SIGGRAPH and organize the nomination of ACM SIGGRAPH members to higher ACM levels such as ACM Fellows and to ACM awards.
More specifically, the Awards Chair will be expected to:
A report of the activities of the awards committee should be presented to the SIGGRAPH Executive Committee in June of each year. This role is expected to require about two hours/week averaged across the year.
The ACM SIGGRAPH awards are as follows:
If you are interested in this position, please contact: Thierry Frey
The Executive Committee is pleased to announce the selection of the organization’s Chair and Chair Elect.
Mona Kasra is the new Chair of the Executive Committee. Kasra is a new media artist, interdisciplinary scholar, and Associate Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia. Her focus explores the confluence of media technologies, art, and culture; reflecting on the impact of emerging media on personal, political, and creative expression; and experimenting with the affordances of such media for artistic and performative practices.
Eakta Jain, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida was selected as Chair Election. Professor Jain received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and her B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur. She has industry experience at Texas Instruments R&D Labs, Disney Research Pittsburgh and Walt Disney Animation Studios. Mona Kasra and Eakta Jain join David Spoelstra and Brad Lawrence as Officers of the SIGGRAPH Executive Committee.
ACM SIGGRAPH presents the results of the 2023 elections to the organization’s Executive Committee.
Elizabeth Baron, a Solutions Executive at Unity Technologies, was elected to her second term as Director. Elizabeth works on solutions for the industrial design, engineering and manufacturing space, to powers creation at all points in the product development process. Formerly, Elizabeth was a Technical Specialist in Immersive Realities at Ford Motor Company. She is the principal inventor of the Ford immersive Vehicle Environment (FiVE) process and technology, an immersive environment with high realism in experience, providing contextual data and real time global immersion for multiple disciplines across Ford.
Alla Sheffer is Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and a Scholar at Amazon Inc. Professor Sheffer received her BSc (1991), MSc (1995), and PhD (2000) from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She investigates algorithms for geometry processing, focusing on fabrication and computer graphics applications. Sheffer is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of Eurographics, and a Member of the SIGGRAPH Academy. She is the recipient of the 2018 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award; a UBC Killam Research Award; multiple faculty awards from Adobe, Google and IBM; an NSERC Discovery Accelerator award; and an Audi Production Award.
Courtney Starrett is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the Visualization Program in the new School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. She is a founding member and associate director of the VIVID Lab (Visceral Intersensory Visualization & Information Design) of the Texas A&M Data Science Institute and a faculty affiliate of the HCIED (Human-Computer Interaction and Engineering Design Lab). Courtney holds the Harold Adams Interdisciplinary endowed professorship and is currently the director of the MS and MFA in Visualization graduate programs. Her creative research focuses on data materialization, using data as raw material, and integrating digital fabrication technologies in craft practices.
Join us as the Women of SIGGRAPH Conversations hosts part 2 of the panel discussion Women of Influence: Pioneers and Change makers, a conversation with some of the women who shaped SIGGRAPH and the computer graphics industry and community — and who are blazing new trails.
Panelists include:
This conversation was sponsored by AUTODESK and Foundry.
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