Alla Sheffer

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Alla Sheffer
FRSC
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forMesh parameterization, angle-based flattening
AwardsAchievement Award (Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society, 2018), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020), ACM SIGGRAPH Academy (2020), Fellow of IEEE (2021), ACM Fellow (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Geometry Processing, Mesh Generation
Institutions University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisor Michel Bercovier

Alla Sheffer FRSC is a Canadian researcher in computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing, and mesh generation, particularly known for her research on mesh parameterization and angle-based flattening. [1] She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia.[ citation needed ]

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Education and career

Sheffer was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1991, a master's degree in computer science in 1995, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1999. [2] Her dissertation, Geometric Modeling and Applied Computational Geometry, was supervised by Michel Bercovier. [3]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, she became an assistant professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2001. She moved to the University of British Columbia in 2003, and became a full professor there in 2013. [2]

Recognition

The Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society gave Sheffer their Achievement Award in 2018, "for her numerous highly impactful contributions to the field of computer graphics research". [1]

In 2020, Sheffer was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [4] and a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy. [5] In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of IEEE. [6] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to geometry processing, mesh parameterization, and perception-driven shape analysis and modeling". [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Alla Sheffer", CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award, Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society, retrieved 2020-11-13
  2. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-11-13
  3. ↑ Alla Sheffer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ RSC Fellow Class of 2020 (PDF), Royal Society of Canada, retrieved 2020-11-13
  5. ↑ ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, ACM SIGGRAPH, 6 May 2018, retrieved 2021-06-15
  6. ↑ NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOW CLASS 2021 (PDF), IEEE, archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-12-06, retrieved 2021-06-15
  7. ↑ ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation, Association for Computing Machinery, 19 January 2022, retrieved 2022-01-19
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