Alla Sheffer – Short Resume

(perpetually outdated)

 

Academic Degrees

 

1999

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Ph.D. Computer Science

1995

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, M.Sc. (Cum Laude) Computer Science

1991

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) Math and Computer Science

 

Academic Experience

 

2003-

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department,  UBC

2001- 2003

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Technion

1999-2001

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1997

Visiting Scholar, Faculté Leonard de Vinci, Paris, France, (6 month)

1995-1999

Research/Teaching Assistant, Hebrew University

 

Professional Experience

 

1996-1999

Consultant, Fluent, Inc. IL, USA

1995

Software Engineer, Schema, Inc.

1991-1995

Software Engineer, Israel Defense Forces

 

Grants/Awards

 

2011

Supported University Collaboration, Adobe  Systems

2010-present

GRAND NCE,NI

2009

Killam Research Fellowship

2008

Supported University Collaboration, Adobe  Systems

2007-2008

Extraction of Terrain and Vegetation Layers from LIDAR Data, GEOIDE

NCE, PI

2007-2012

Digital Geometry Processing Tools, Discovery Grant, NSERC, PI

2008

UBC CS Incredible Instructor Award (for Spring 2007).

2006-present

Mathematical Surface Representations for Conceptual Design, MITACS

NCE, Co-PI

2006

IBM Faculty Award

2006

Direct Multi-Touch Interaction for a Very Large Wall Display, NSERC, RTI,

Co-PI

2005-2006

GEOREP: Geometrical representations for computer graphics, Inria (France)

Cooperative Research Initiatives, Co-PI

2003-2007

Digital Geometry Processing Tools, Discovery Grant, NSERC, PI

2002

Multidimensional Visualization and Analysis of Medical Imaging.

IBM Shared University Research (SUR) grant. Co-PI

2002-2003

Foundations of Virtual Reality and Medical Applications, Ministry of Science

(MOST), Israel, Co-PI

2002-2003

Improving Display Quality of Military Simulation, Institute for Future

Defense Research, Israel, Co-PI

2000-2001

Surface Smoothness Parameterization Studies, Sandia National

Laboratories, USA, Co-PI

1997

Chateaubriand Visiting Scholar Fellowship, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

Invited Talks (partial and outdated, since 2003)

 

Conference Plenary/Panel

 

•         Developable Surfaces: Approximate and Direct Modeling, Polyhedral surfaces and industrial applications, Strobl, Austria, 2007, invited speaker.

•         IEEE Shape Modeling International, June 2006, invited plenary speaker.

•         Constrained Parameterization or I Have a Hammer, Give Me a Nail, Imagina 2005 (23rd European Digital Content Creation Conference), 2005, invited speaker/panelist.

 

Symposia/Workshops/Mini-Symposia

 

•         Shuffler: Modeling with Interchangeable Parts, Ayia-Napa Summer Seminar, Recent Results in Rendering and Modeling in Computer Graphics, 2006, invited.

•         Template Based Mesh Completion, Dagstuhl  Seminar on Geometric Modelling, 2005, invited.

•         Pyramid Coordinates for Morphing and Deformation, Second International Symposium on 3DPVT (3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission), September, 2004, invited.

•         3D Matchmaker: Constrained mapping in 3D,  Minisymposium on Surface Mesh Parameterization, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design & Computing, November, 2003

 

Peer-Reviewed Tutorials

 

•         Co-organizer and speaker: Mesh Parameterization: Theory and Practice, A. Sheffer, K. Hormann, B. Levy, M. Desbrun, K. Zhou, Full-day course, SIGGRAPH 2007

 

Colloquia 

 

•         Contour-based Modeling Using Deformable 3D Templates,

Berliner Colloquium für Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung, July 2007.

•         Developable Surfaces from Arbitrary Sketched Boundaries, 

Freie University, Berlin, June 2007.

Columbia University, New-York, February 2007

•         Shuffler: Modeling with Interchangeable Parts,

Washington University in St. Louis, September 2006

University of Toronto, July 2006

The University of Tokyo, June 2006

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February, 2006

•         Fundamentals of Spherical Parameterization for 3D Meshes,

Institute of Applied Mathematics, UBC, March 2004

•         Mapping Textures to Models,

University of Washington, December, 2003

Hebrew University, Israel, December 2003

SFU, November 2003

•         Sweatshop: Ironing and Cutting (Parameterization of Surface Meshes)

University of New Mexico, September 2003

 

Other Professional Activities

 

Editor/Editorial Board Member

 

•         Computers and Graphics, Associate editor (2007), Editorial board member  (2008-present).

 

Program/Organizing committee chairing

 

•         Co-Organizer (with K. Polthier and H. Pottmann), BIRS seminar on Computational Mathematics of Discrete Surfaces, Feb 2009 (upcoming)

•         Program Co-Chair, Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2006

•         Program Co-Chair, 4th Israel-Korea Bi-National Conference on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, February 2003

•         Organizing Committee Chair, 10th International Meshing Roundtable, 2001

•         Co-Organizer, Mini-symposium on Surface Parameterization in Computer Graphics, CAD and CAE, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, 2001

•         Technical Papers Co-Chair and organizing committee member, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, 2000

 

Program/Paper committee membership

 

•         Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2003-2008

•         ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), 2005-2008

•         Shape Modeling International (SMI), 2003-2008

•         ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2008

•         Geometric Modeling and Processing, 2008

•         Eurographics, 2004,2007

•         ACM SIGGRAPH, 2005

•         Pacific Graphics, 2005,2006

•         SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, 2005,2007

•         Graphics Interface, 2005

•         Computer Graphics International, 2005

•         International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG ) 2004, 2005

 

Guest editor

 

•         Computer Graphics Forum , Special Theme on Geometry Processing, Edited by Alla Sheffer and Konrad Polthier, 2007.

•         International Journal of Shape Modeling, Special issue from 4th Israel-Korea Bi-National Conference on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics,  2003

•         Engineering with Computers, Special issue on unstructured mesh generation, 2002