GRASP / CG@Penn Special Seminar: Ariel Shamir, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (now visiting Disney Research Boston & MIT), “Smart tools for photos and 3D models manipulation”

Prof. Ariel Shamir is an associate Professor and vice-dean at the school of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. Prof. Shamir received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He spent two years at the center for computational visualization at the University of Texas in Austin. During 2006 he held the position of visiting scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge MA, and is now spending his Sabbatical with Disney Research and MIT. Prof. Shamir has numerous publications in journals and international refereed conferences, and a broad commercial experience working with, and consulting high tech companies. He is an associate editor for Computer Graphics Forum and Computers and Graphics journals. His research interests include computer graphics, visualization, geometric modeling, virtual reality and machine learning. He is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer and Eurographics societies.