Email: derose@pixar.com
Tony DeRose is currently a member of the Tools Group at
Pixar Animation Studios. He received a BS in Physics in 1981 from the University of California,Davis, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1985 from the
University of California,
Berkeley. He received a Presidential Young Investigator award from
the National Science Foundation in 1989, and in 1995 he was a
finalist in the Discover Awards for Technological Innovation. From
1986 to 1995 Dr. DeRose was a Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. From
September 1991 to August 1992 he was on sabbatical leave at the
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and at Apple
Computers. He has served on various technical program committees
including SIGGRAPH, and from 1988 through 1994 was an associate editor
of ACM Transactions on Graphics.
His research has focused on mathematical methods for surface modeling,
object reconstruction from range data, and more recently in the use of
multiresolution and wavelet techniques in computer graphics.
Email: derose@pixar.com