ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s awards and new members of the SIGGRAPH Academy, listed below.
Computer Graphics Achievement
Aaron Hertzmann
For his pioneering work in non-photorealistic animation and rendering (NPR), image synthesis, character animation, computational photography and the interplay between computer generated and traditional art
Significant New Researcher Award
Adriana Schulz
For her outstanding contributions to interactive 3D design tools for physical artifacts
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Zachary Ferguson
“Provably Robust and Accurate Methods for Rigid and Deformable Simulation with Contact”
For a dissertation which significantly extends the state of the art in physical simulation by presenting new groundbreaking methods to handle contacts in dynamic simulations of rigid and deformable objects.
Honorable mention to Yu Wang for his dissertation “Geometric Computing beyond the Laplacian” and Fangcheng Zhong for his dissertation “Path from Photorealism to Perceptual Realism”
Outstanding Service Award
Adele Newton
For her long-term, visionary, and dedicated service to ACM SIGGRAPH
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
Tamiko Thiel
For her innovations in virtual and augmented reality art used to explore place, space, the body, and cultural memory
ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award
F. Sebastian Grassia
For technical leadership of and contribution to Universal Scene Description
ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award
Mike Bailey
For his dedication to introducing the basics and joy of computer graphics to thousands of students and the SIGGRAPH conference attendees in a decades-long endeavor
ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
Baoquan Chen
For contributions to large-scale scene reconstruction, point-cloud processing, and shape design for manufacturing
Jacquelyn Ford Morie
For pioneering contributions to the fusion of art with virtual reality and immersive technologies, and for advancing digital arts within the SIGGRAPH community
Dinesh K. Pai
For groundbreaking contributions to animation using physics-based and data-driven simulation techniques
Ariel Shamir
For pioneering work in algorithms for image, video, and geometry processing that are driven by models of human perception
Mary C. Whitton
For contributions to programmable graphics systems and virtual reality, and for exemplary leadership in the SIGGRAPH community
