Fanny Chevalier has been made a knight in the prestigious Order of Academic Palms (l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques), France’s national order recognizing exemplary services to education and culture. Coincidentally, her last name translates to “knight” in French, so this was … read more
The faculty of Arts & Science has named Alec Jacobson as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award! You can read more about the award and his contributions in this article.
This year’s 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship award recipients include dgp’s Prof. Alec Jacobson! In UofT’s Computer Science dept. both Prof. Jacobson and Prof. Duvenaud were chosen for this award. Computer Science’s website has a write-up of the award here.
The Sloan Research fellowship was awarded to two Computer Science researchers for 2021, Prof. Grosse and dgp’s Prof. Grossman. Congratulations Prof. Grossman! More details about the award can be found here.
Rifat, Priyank and Prianka have been awarded one of the UofT COVID-19 Student Engagement awards. Congratulations! Their project is titled “Investigating the Spread of Misinformation by Religious Preachers” and described here: We have two goals in this project: First, analyzing … read more
Rahul Arora, a PhD candidate and current DGP student, was awarded at this year’s U of T Libraries Graduate Student Exhibition Competition. His work titled “User-Centric Structural Optimization in Three Dimensions” is on display on the first floor of Robarts Library through … read more
Jos Stam, DGP graduate and adjunct professor, has won his third Oscar for his work on subdivision surfaces at the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards. U of T News has a write-up here: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/and-oscar-goes-u-t-educated-graphics-whiz
There is a write-up on Prof. Grossman’s and Rahul’s work on software design for 2d/3d sketching in augmented reality. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-and-autodesk-researchers-design-2d-3d-software-augmented-reality-drawing
Ishtiaque Ahmed and Fanny Chevalier: “Designing for Voice” and “Make our society think again: Cultivating critical thinking through visualization education” 2018-02-27 12:30 at DGP: BCIT, 5th Floor    Ishtiaque Ahmed Abstract Voice refers to a person’s ability to … read more
As an animator, I’m trying to animate realistically, says Chris Landreth, Academy Award winning animator and filmmaker and now distinguished research artist-in-residence in the University of Toronto’s department of computer science. Read the full article at http://news.utoronto.ca/oscar-winning-animator-and-filmmaker-chris-landreth-u-t-computer-science.