Julie Dorsey

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Julie Dorsey
Alma mater Cornell University (B.S., B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D.)
Awards National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Architecture
Institutions Yale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Donald P. Greenberg

Julie Dorsey is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics. With architecture as a driving application, her research in computer graphics has included work on high-dynamic-range imaging, image-based modeling and rendering, and billboarding. She is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, [1] and the founder and Chief Scientist of 3D sketching software company Mental Canvas. [2]

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Education and career

Dorsey was an undergraduate at Cornell University, [1] where she earned bachelor's degrees in both architecture and computer science. [3] She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at Cornell in 1993. Her dissertation, Computer Graphics Techniques For Opera Lighting Design And Simulation, was supervised by Donald P. Greenberg. [4]

She was a tenured professor of computer science and engineering and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Yale in 2002. [1]

Contributions

Dorsey is the co-author of the book Digital Modeling of Material Appearance (with Holly Rushmeier and François Sillion, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008). She was editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2012 to 2014. [5]

Recognition

Dorsey was the winner of the Richard Kelly Award of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] In 2018 she was a winner of the Microsoft Female Founders Competition, providing venture capital to fund her company Mental Canvas. [6]

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  3. 1 2 Wright, Sarah H. (April 30, 1997), "Dorsey named Edgerton professor", MIT News
  4. Julie Dorsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ACM Transactions on Graphics Seeks Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGGRAPH, retrieved 2019-09-05
  6. "Yale Professor Julie Dorsey Wins Microsoft's Female Founders Competition", WIA Report, December 21, 2018, retrieved 2019-09-05