Alla Sheffer

Alla Sheffer FRSC is a Canadian researcher in computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing, and mesh generation, particularly known for her research on mesh parameterization and angle-based flattening.[1] She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia.

Education and career

Sheffer was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1991, a master's degree in computer science in 1995, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1999.[2] Her dissertation, Geometric Modeling and Applied Computational Geometry, was supervised by Michel Bercovier.[3]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, she became an assistant professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2001. She moved to the University of British Columbia in 2003, and became a full professor there in 2013.[2]

Recognition

The Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society gave Sheffer their Achievement Award in 2018, "for her numerous highly impactful contributions to the field of computer graphics research".[1]

In 2020, Sheffer was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[4] and as a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy.[5]

References
  1. "Alla Sheffer", CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award, Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society, retrieved 2020-11-13
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-11-13
  3. Alla Sheffer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Class of 2020 (PDF), Royal Society of Canada, retrieved 2020-11-13
  5. Thompson, Christine (9 June 2020), Alla Sheffer inducted into ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, University of British Columbia, retrieved 2020-11-13
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