David Salesin

David Salesin
Born	Cleveland, OH, United States
Alma mater	Brown University Stanford University
Known for	Non-photorealistic rendering
Awards	University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award (1997) SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2000) ACM Fellow (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer graphics
Institutions	Google University of Washington
Website	salesin.cs.washington.edu

David Salesin is an American computer scientist. He has worked in computer graphics, three-dimensional and four-dimensional mathematics, and photorealistic rendering.[1] Until 2019, he was the director of Snap Inc. Research Team, an affiliate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle, and previously director of the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab. He is currently a principal scientist at Google.

Salesin graduated from Brown University in 1983, and did graduate work at Stanford.[1]

Salesin received a National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1993, and in 1995 was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow, receiving a National Science Foundation grant.[1]

Computer Animation Rendering

• André and Wally B. (1984) models: André/Wally
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) computer animation: Industrial Light & Magic
• Luxo Jr. (1986) rendering
• Tin Toy (1988) dynamics
• Toy Story (1995) renderman software development

References

1. Salesin named Presidential Fellow Archived July 28, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. MSB. Washington: University of Washington, Department of Computer Science & Engineering. 9 (1): 1, 4.

External links

• David Salesin at IMDb
• http://www.adobe.com/technology/people/san-francisco/david-salesin.html
• http://salesin.cs.washington.edu/cv.html