A former competitive weightlifter, Fedkiw received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA in 1996 and did postdoctoral studies both at UCLA in Mathematics and at Caltech in Aeronautics before joining the Stanford Computer Science Department. He was awarded the National Academy of Science Award for Initiatives in Research, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a Sloan Research Fellowship, the ACM Siggraph Significant New Researcher Award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award (ONR YIP), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, the Robert Bosch Faculty Scholarship, the Robert N. Noyce Family Faculty Scholarship, two distinguished teaching awards, etc. Currently he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Scientific Computing, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, and Communications in Mathematical Sciences, and he participates in the reviewing process of a number of journals and funding agencies. He has published over 80 research papers in computational physics, computer graphics and vision, as well as a book on level set methods. His research is focused on the design of new computational algorithms for a variety of applications including computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, computer graphics, computer vision and computational biomechanics. For the past seven years, he has been a consultant with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) in San Francisco. His feature film credits at ILM include TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003), STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005), POSEIDON (2006) and EVAN ALMIGHTY (2007).  Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) 2007: For the development of the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) fluid simulation system. (w. Frank Losasso Petterson and Nick Rasmussen, both of ILM) 1 Sci-Tech Award