Announcing the 2025 Award Winners

Award Winners, News

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.