Doug L. James,
Consulting Senior Research Scientist

Contact: djames@pixar.com

Doug James is a consulting Senior Research Scientist in the Pixar Research Group, where he explores new ways of applying mathematics and physically based simulation to the Pixar creative process. In his other day job, he is a Professor of Computer Science (and Music) at Stanford University, where he is a member of the Computer Graphics Lab. Previously he was an Associate Professor at Cornell University (2006-2015), an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2002-2006), and he received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of British Columbia (2001). Doug is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2012 he received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for work on fluid simulation. He was the Technical Papers Program Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015.