Rate Professor Ronald Fedkiw

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, UCLA, 1996; B.S., University of Michigan.

Research Interests: Computer graphics, physics-based simulation, and computational fluid dynamics; applications in animation and virtual reality.

Appointments: Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University.

Awards: Academy Award for Technical Achievement (2008); SIGGRAPH Significant Researcher Award.

Publications: Over 100 papers in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Journal of Computational Physics; co-author of Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces (Springer).

Additional Contributions: Consultant for Industrial Light & Magic; developed simulation tools for films like Pirates of the Caribbean.