About Me

I am a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, an ACM fellow, and The Isaias Nizri Chair in Visual Computing. I received a B.Sc. cum laude in both Mathematics and Computer Science (1985), a M.Sc. cum laude in Computer Science (1986) from Ben-Gurion University, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science (1991) at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

My research interests are in Computer Graphics, Visual Computing and Geometric Modeling. Currently, focusing on generative models.

I was the recipient of the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in 2005, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2018. In 2012 I’ve received The People’s Republic of China Friendship Award. In 2015 I’ve been named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. In 2016 I’ve become an adjunct Professor at the Simon Fraser University In 2019 I’ve won The Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research. In 2020 I’ve received The Eurographics Distinguished Career Award.

I have also edited the book “A Sampler of Useful Computational Tools for Applied Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing”.