Thomas Sederberg

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Thomas W. Sederberg is an emeritus [1] professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research involved computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent free-form deformation and T-splines. [2]

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Education and career

Thomas W. Sederberg studied civil engineering at Brigham Young University for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees. [3] Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983. [2] His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves. [4]

He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics [5] and for Computer Aided Geometric Design. [6]

Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011. [7]

He was the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences at Brigham Young University from 2005 until his retirement in 2017. [8]

Awards

SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006. [9] In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling. [4]

Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014. [3] Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. [10] His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science. [2]

Personal life

Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children. One of them is Matthew Sederberg, CEO of Coreform, a successful software company. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty - Tom Sederberg". cs.byu.edu. Retrieved December 4, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Dr. Sederberg earns distinction of being "Highly Cited"". BYU Computer Science. BYU. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Thomas W. Sederberg". Purdue University Mechanical Engineering. Purdue University. 2014. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Thomas W. Sederberg, the 2013 Pierre Bézier Award Recipient". Solid Modeling Association. Solid Modeling Association. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ "ACM Graphics Editorial Board". ACM Digital Library. ACM. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Computer Aided Geometric Design Editorial Board". Elsevier. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hadfield, Joe. "BYU prof's design technology acquired by software giant Autodesk". BYU News. BYU. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Tom Sederberg". LinkedIn. Retrieved December 4, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Awards". ACMSIGGRAPH. ACMSIGGRAPH. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ Holligshead, Todd (December 2, 2014). "BYU professors receive prestigious awards from Purdue University". BYU News. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Brenda Clark Sederberg". Deseret News. September 5, 2012. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
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