Distinguished Educator
Glenn Goldman glenn.goldman@njit.edu
For pioneering work and providing opportunities to the academic and professional communities in computer graphics and interactive techniques in architecture and design.
Distinguished Artist
Frieder Nake nake@informatik.uni-bremen.de nake@uni-bremen.de
In recognition of his foundational work in algorithmic art and his lasting contributions to computer graphics and digital art. Active since the early 1960s, Nake’s work helped define the field at its inception and continues to influence thinking around aesthetics and computation.
Significant New Researcher
Ben Mildenhal me@bmild.com
Pratul Srinivasan pratul.srinivasan@gmail.com
For outstanding contributions to neural rendering and novel view synthesis.
Computer Graphics Achievement
George Drettakis George.Drettakis@inria.fr
For fundamental contributions to rendering, including visibility and shadows, perceptually-informed rendering, image-based rendering, and 3D Gaussian splatting.
Steven Anson Coons
Leo Guibas guibas@cs.stanford.edu
For his numerous and broad contributions to computational geometry, geometric learning, and global illumination.
Practitioner
Brian Karis brian.karis@epicgames.com
For his work in the area of real-time computer graphics, including his contributions to Physically-Based Rendering, Temporal Anti-Aliasing, and Nanite.
Outstanding Service
MK Haley mkhaley@utexas.edu.
For her many years of outstanding and impactful service to the computer graphics community
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
Rohan Sawhney rsawhney1993@gmail.com
For a dissertation introducing and exploring a revolutionary approach to geometry processing and simulation which goes beyond traditional finite element methods by applying grid-free Monte-Carlo techniques.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention
Suyeon Choi suyeon@stanford.edu
For a dissertation on ground-breaking work towards the development of holographic near eye displays
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention
Silvia Sellan silviasellan@cs.columbia.edu
For a dissertation on robustly and reliably processing geometric models “in the wild“.
SIGGRAPH Academy
Leif Kobbelt kobbelt@cs.rwth-aachen.de
For pioneering contributions and leadership in the fields of geometry processing and multiscale modeling.
John (Spike) Hughes jfh@cs.brown.edu
For outstanding contributions and sustained leadership to computer graphics education and research.
Richard (Hao) Zhang haoz@sfu.ca
For technical contributions in spectral and learning-based methods for geometric modeling.
Karol Myszkowski karol@mpi-inf.mpg.de
For foundational contributions to perceptual rendering and High Dynamic Range imaging in graphics.