Olga Sorkine-Hornung named ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, software engineering, virtual reality and other areas. Olga Sorkine-Hornung, professor at the Institute of Visual Computing, is one of those recognized Fellows. The prestigious grade is given to her for her valuable work in the field of digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing.

According to ACM President Gabriele Kotsis, the selection of the 2020 Fellows came with a challenge. "This year our task in selecting the 2020 Fellows was a little more challenging, as we had a record number of nominations from around the world,” she explained. “The 2020 ACM Fellows have demonstrated excellence across many disciplines of computing. These men and women have made pivotal contributions to technologies that are transforming whole industries, as well as our personal lives. We fully expect that these new ACM Fellows will continue in the vanguard in their respective fields."

Olga Sorkine-​Hornung is a professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab at the Institute of Visual Computing. Her work focuses on the theoretical foundations and practical algorithms for digital content creation tasks, such as shape representation and editing, artistic modeling techniques, digital fabrication, computer animation and digital image manipulation. Further, she also investigates fundamental challenges in digital geometry processing, including reconstruction, filtering, parameterization, meshing and compression of geometric data. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011.