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Steven J. Gortler

Faculty
  • Robert I. Goldman Professor of Computer Science
    Steven J. Gortler

    Contact Information

    Nickname: Shlomo
    Office: Maxwell Dworkin Building 243
    Email: sjg [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
    Office Phone: (617) 495-3751
    Office Fax: (617) 496-1066
    Lab Name: Graphics, Vision & Interaction

    Recruitment Status

    Not accepting graduate students

    Websites

    Education

    1. B.A., 1989, Computer Science and Applied Math, Queens College/CUNY
    2. M.A., 1991, Computer Science, Princeton University
    3. Ph.D., 1995, Computer Science, Princeton University

    Research Interests

      • Computer Science
      • Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging

    Primary Teaching Area

    Computer Science

    Profile

    Computer Graphics is an important, fascinating, and very active field in Computer Science that has revolutionized many endeavors in entertainment, design, education, computer human interaction, and medicine.

    It is a field drawing on algorithm design and system building from the field of computer science, numerical computation from applied mathematics, simulation from applied physics and signal processing from electrical engineering. It is a growing field with one (very competitive) main conference, and a host of very healthy smaller workshops and seminars. In fact, computer graphics forms the single largest special interest subgroup of the Association for Computing Machinery (the primary computer science professional organization).

    My research has focused on designing fundamental representations for computer graphics, as well as pursuing a mathematically rigorous understanding of computer graphics algorithms and techniques. This theoretical focus has been at the heart of all my research, from my early work in efficient lighting simulation, to my current work on image-based rendering and discrete geometry processing.

    Positions & Employment

    Harvard School/Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    • July 2003-Present: Robert I. Goldman Professor of Computer Science
    • September 1998-June 2004, September 2005-2009: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Computer Science
    • July 2000-June 2003: Associate Professor of Computer Science,
    • September 1996-June 2000: Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    MIT, Laboratory for Computer Science
    • September 1998-June 2004: Research Affiliate
    • June 1998-August 1998: Visiting Scientist
    Microsoft Research
    • September 1994-August 1996: Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Washington
    • September 1994-August 1996: Visiting School

    Other Experience

    • Co-chair, 11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2001
    • Program Committee Member
      • SIGGRAPH 2008
      • SIGGRAPH 2006
      • SIGGRAPH 2005
      • SIGGRAPH 2001
      • SIGGRAPH 2000
    • Program Committee Member, CVPR 2003
    • Program Committee Member, 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2002
    • Program Committee Member, 9th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 1999
    • Program Committee Member, 8th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 1998
    • Program Committee Member, 6nd Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2008
    • Program Committee Member, 2nd Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2004
    • Program Committee Member, 1st Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2003
    • Course Organizer, Image Based Rendering, SIGGRAPH 1998
    • Invited Speaker, 1st Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2003

    Honors

    • Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Nominee, 2003
    • SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, 2002
    • Sloan Fellowship, 1998
    • NSF CAREER Award, 1997

    Selected Publications

    1. H. Chong, S. J. Gortler and T. Zicker. A Perception-Based Color Space for Illumination-Invariant Image Processing. Proceedings SIGGRAPH, 2008.
    2. L. Liu, L. zhang, Y. Xu, C. Gotsman and S. J. Gortler. A Local/Global Approach to Mesh Parameterization. Proceedings SGP, 2008.
    3. H. Chong, S. J. Gortler and T. Zicker. The von-Kries Hypothesis and a Basis for Color Constancy. Proceedings ICCV, 2007.
    4. J. Yu, X Yin, X. Gu, L. McMillan and S. J. Gortler. Focal Surfaces of Discrete Geometry. Proceedings SGP, 2007.
    5. G. D. Canas and S. J. Gortler. On Asymptototically Optimal Meshes by Coordinate Transformation.” Proceedings International Meshing Roundtable, 2006.
    6. G. D. Canas and S. J. Gortler. Surface Remeshing in Arbitrary Codimensions. Proceedings Pacific Graphics, 2006.
    7. M Ben-Chen, C. Gotsman and S. J. Gortler. Routing with Guaranteed Delivery on Virtual Coordinates. Proceedings CCCG, 2006.
    8. S. J. Gortler, C. Gotsman and D. Thurston. Discrete One-Forms on Meshes and Applications to 3D Mesh Parameterization. Computer Aided Geometric Design 33(2), 2006.
    9. G Tewari, C Gotsman and S. J. Gortler. Meshing Genus-1 Point Clouds Using Discrete One-Forms. Computers and Graphics 30(6), 2006.
    10. V. Surazhsky, T. Surazhsky, D. Kirsanov, S. J. Gortler and H. Hoppe. Fast Exact and Approximate Geodesics on Meshes. Proceedings SIGGRAPH, 2005.

    Faculty CV

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