Fields Computer Science Alma mater Princeton University | Doctoral advisor Pat Hanrahan Academic advisor Pat Hanrahan | |
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Institutions California Institute of Technology Known for Discrete differential geometry Institution California Institute of Technology Similar Pat Hanrahan, Robert L Cook, Henrik Wann Jensen, Loren Carpenter, Edwin Catmull | ||
Peter schr der cs visualization alumni college 2016
Peter Schröder is a German American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at California Institute of Technology. Schröder is known for his contributions to discrete differential geometry and digital geometry processing. He is also a world expert in the area of wavelet based methods for computer graphics. In 2015, Schröder was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to computer graphics and geometry processing.".
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Biography
Schröder received an M.S. from MIT's Media Lab in 1990, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1992 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Caltech.
Awards
Schröder is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and in 2015 was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2003.