Tony DeRose,
Lead, Research Group

Contact: derose@pixar.com

Tony DeRose is currently a Senior Scientist and lead of the Research Group
at Pixar Animation Studios. He received a BS in Physics in from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1986 to 1995 Dr. DeRose was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In 1998, he was a major contributor to the Oscar (c) winning short film "Geri's game," in 1999 he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, and in 2006 he received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award (c) for his work on surface representations.

Research interests

Geometric modeling, multiresolution methods, mathematical algorithms, and novel user interfaces.

Publications

Selected professional activities

  • Editorial board, IEEE CG&A
  • Program committee member, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, 2009
  • Program committee member, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
  • Program committee member, ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2005, 2006, 2008

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