Alla Sheffer Associate Professor Computer Science Department University of British Columbia sheffa@cs.ubc.ca www.cs.ubc.ca/~sheffa

phone: +1-(604)-822-4030 fax:   +1-(604)-822-5485 Office: x651 CICSR Mail: Dept. Computer Science, UBC 201-2366 Main Mall Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada

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News:

• I am looking for new exceptional PhD and MSc students. For info on working with me click here.
• Our 2012 SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia papers are now online.
• Congrats to Ron Maharik for receiving the Faculty of Science Graduate Prize !!!
• I received a Discovery Accelerator for 2012-2015 .
• Sushrut Pavanaskar, Sara McMains,and I just won the first prize in the 2011 International Audi Production Award competition

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Bio blurb: I joined the CS department at UBC in 2003, and was promoted to associate professor in 2008. I am a member of the Imager Graphics and HCI lab. My prior places of study/work included: Technion (Israel), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Hebrew University (Jerusalem). You are welcome to read my (perpetually outdated) resume. 

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My research in a nutshell: I conduct research in computer graphics and more specifically in geometry processing. When describing real world objects on a computer we typically must first describe their shape. My research focuses on the algorithmic challenges which arise in digital shape modeling and manipulation. I am particularly interested in discrete geometry representations and specifically meshes (polygonal model representations). The main application areas of this research are computer graphics and computer aided engineering applications. My work utilizes tools from computational and differential geometry, discrete math, and graph theory to generate, manipulate, and edit discrete geometric models. To learn more about the research conducted by my group check the list of our recent research projects.