Eitan Grinspun

Eitan Grinspun is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Computer Graphics Group. He was Professeur d'Université Invité at l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris in 2009, a Research Scientist at the Courant Institute from 2003-2004, a graduate student at California Institute of Technology from 1997-2003, and an undergraduate in the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto from 1993-1997. He was an NVIDIA Fellow in 2001, Everhart Distinguished Lecturer in 2003, NSF CAREER Award recipient in 2007, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2010-2012, and one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant Ten Scientists" in 2011. The technologies his group developed are used in products such as Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, at major film studios such as Disney and Weta Digital, and in basic scientific research.