Computer Graphics & Animation

Biography

Jos Stam was born in the Netherlands and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, where he received dual Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics. In 1989, he moved to Toronto where he completed his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science. After that, he pursued postdoctoral studies as an ERCIM fellow at INRIA in France and at VTT in Finland. In 1997 he joined the Alias Seattle office as a researcher and stayed there until 2003 to relocate to Alias' main office in Toronto. He is now employed with Autodesk as a Senior Principal Research Scientist as part of Autodesk's acquisition of Alias in 2006. He is also affiliated with the University of Toronto as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research spans several areas of computer graphics: natural phenomena, physics-based simulation, rendering and surface modeling, especially subdivision surfaces.His latest creation is a unified dynamics solver called Nucleus, which is embedded in MAYA and has been used in many movies to create special effects.e has published papers in all of these areas in journals and at conferences, most notably at the annual SIGGRAPH conference. In 2005, he was awarded one of the most prestigious awards in Computer Graphics: the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. He also won two Technical Achievement Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: in 2005 for his work on Subdivision Surfaces and in 2007 for his work on fluid dynamics. He was also featured in a January 2008 Wired magazine article.

Abstract

Abstract : Art of Fluid Animation