Tom Duff,
Senior Research Scientist

Contact: td@pixar.com

Tom Duff has degrees from the universities of Waterloo and Toronto and has worked at the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab, the Lucasfilm computer division, Bell Labs, and Pixar. His main research interest is in computer graphics and animation, but he has published broadly. (Other topics include operating systems, polymer physics, wireless networking, mathematics, and computer security.) He has half a dozen patents and two Academy Awards for contributions to motion picture science and technology. When not at work, he is an opera singer, musical tinkerer, and grandparent.