USD Contributors
The following list is almost certainly incomplete, but is an attempt to credit all the folks who have contributed not just code but ideas to the evolution of scene description that is today embodied in USD, between 1995 and 2019 at Pixar, as well as all the contributors of pull requests we have accepted. If you think you should be on this list, please let us know! In addition to the folks listed below who have contributed code or direct support, we would especially and specifically like to thank the Pixar leadership for their forward-thinking and support for allowing and encouraging the USD project to be open-sourced, including Ed Catmull, Jim Morris, Steve May, and Guido Quaroni. Guido provided the initial proposition and challenge for creating USD, and Bill Polson navigated the sea of patents we needed to release to make USD public.
David Aguilar
Brad Andalman
Jim Atkinson
Aloys Baillet
Raja Bala
David Baraff
Savannah Baron
Andrew Bauer
Alan Blevins
Sunya Boonyatera
Alan Bucior
Ryan Bujnowicz
Ivan Calderon
Antony Carysforth
Tom Cauchois
Benjamin Coquelle
Jeremy Cowles
Damien Courtois
Bena Curran
Marco da Silva
Steven Dao
Joachim De Deken
Tony DeRose
Dave Dixon
Chad Dombrova
Paul Edmondson
Robert Ell
George ElKoura
McKay Farley
Mike Ferris
Josh Filstrup
Greg Finch
Kurt Fleischer
Alex Fuller
Daniel Garcia
Stefaan Ghysels
Matthias Goerner
F. Sebastian Grassia
Eric Gregory
Stephen Gustafson
Tom Hahn
Brian Harris
Stephen Hassard
Valerie Hau
Florian Hecht
Joseph Heck
Jamie Hecker
Mark Hessler
Joseph W. Hura
Shriram Neelakanta Iyer
Oren Jacob
Rob Jensen
Pol Jeremias-Vila
Matthew Johnson
Michael Johnson
Sue Maatouk Kalache
Nick Kendall-Bar
Jamie Kenyon
Jason Kim
Chris King
Krzysztof Klimczyk
Denis Kovacs
Matthew Kuruc
Steve LaVietes
Ian Lawson
John LeGrande
Brett Levin
Peng Liu
John Loy
Kyle Lovrien
Aaron Luk
Karen Lucknavalai
Ed Luong
Fabrice Macagno
Dan McGarry
Pal Mezei
Tim Milliron
Bruce Mitchener
Alex Mohr
Paul Molodowitch
Alicia Mooty
Eoin Murphy
JD Northrup
Daniel Leaf Nunes
Cory Omand
Leonid Onokhov
Darwyn Peachey
Pavlo Penenko
Davide Pesare
Nick Porcino
John Pottebaum
Guido Quaroni
Arun Rao
Corey Revilla
Kees Rijnen
Susan Salituro
Florian Sauer
Chris Schoeneman
Alex Schwank
Peter Shinners
Tim Speltz
Rachel Strickler
Morgan Strong
Sho Sumioka
Takahito Tejima
Jessica Tran
Mark Tucker
Carl Van Arsdall
Dirk Van Gelder
Brandon Wang
Freeson Wang
Kelly Wang
John Warren
Douglas Waters
Chad Williams
Matthew Williams
Adam Woodbury
David Yu
Jack Zhao
Florian Zitzelsberger
Roman Zulak
