Alla Sheffer – Short Resume
(perpetually outdated)
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 |
2013- |
Professor, Computer Science Department, UBC |
2008-2013 |
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, UBC |
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 |
1996-1999 |
Consultant, Fluent,
Inc. IL, USA |
1995 |
Software Engineer, Schema, Inc. |
1991-1995 |
Software
Engineer, Israel Defense Forces |
Plenary Talks
• Quantifying Design: the geometric properties behind designer choices and human perception, Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Waterloo, Canada, 2013, invited plenary speaker. • 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. |
Editor/Editorial
Board Member |
• IEEE TVCG, Associate editor (2012-present). |
• Computer Graphics Forum, Associate editor (2014-presnet). |
• Graphical Models, Associate editor (2010-2014). |
• CAGD, Associate editor (2009-2012). |
• Computers and Graphics, Associate editor (2007-2009). |
Program/Organizing committee chairing |
• Program Co-Chair, Shape Modeling International 2013 |
•
Co-Organizer
(with K. Polthier and H. Pottmann),
BIRS
seminar on Computational Mathematics of Discrete Surfaces, Feb 2009
|
• 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 |