Demetri Terzopoulos
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Demetri Terzopoulos is the Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also affiliated with the University of Toronto as an adjunct professor in the departments of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences.

Terzopoulos received the PhD degree ('84) in Computer Science (AI) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the MEng degree and Honours BEng degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. After graduation, he was a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge, MA. Prior to becoming an academic in 1989, he was affiliated with Schlumberger, Inc., serving as Program Leader at corporate research centers in California and Texas. He has been a visiting professor at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, at Digital's (now Hewlett-Packard's) Cambridge Research Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, and at the Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science in Austin, TX.

 Technical Achievement Awards 2005: (Academy Certificates) - For their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures. (w. John Platt)

1 Sci-Tech Award