Jarek Rossignac: Recognition
International
Professional Society Recognition
Fellow of the Eurographics association, elected in August 2000.
Research Recognition at Georgia Tech
Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award from the College of Computing in 2002.
Sigma Xi Best Paper Award for the Best Paper published by a Georgia Tech Faculty in 1999: "Edgebreaker: Compression and Decompression of 3D Triangulations", March 2000.
External Best Paper Awards
Best paper published by Computers&Graphics in 1990: "Issues on Feature-based Editing and Interrogation of Solid Models", J. Rossignac
Gunter Erlande's Best Paper award (First prize) at Eurographics'91: "Solid-Interpolating Deformations: Constructions and Animation of PIPs", A. Kaul and J. Rossignac, 1991.
Best paper published by the IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications in 1993: "Solid Modeling and Beyond", A. Requicha and J. Rossignac.
Best Paper (second prize) award at Eurographics'94: "Triangulating multiply-connected polygons: A simple, yet efficient algorithm", R. Ronfard and J. Rossignac, 1994.
IBM Award for the Best Paperin Computer Science, "Solid-Interpolating Deformations: Construction and Animation of PIPs", . Kaul and J. Rossignac, Computers&Graphics, 1992.
IBM Award for the Best Paper in ComputerScience for "Geometric Compression through Topological Surgery",
G. Taubin and J. Rossignac. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 1998.
Best Paper Award (Second Prize) for the best paper published in Computers & Graphics in 1999. "Tribox-based simplification of three-dimensional objects", Andre Crosnier and Jarek Rossignac.
Best Paper Award (1st place) for "Optimal Iso-Surfaces", C. Andujar, P. Brunet, A. Chica, I. Navazo, J. Rossignac, A. Vinacua. CAD Conference, Thailand, 2004.
Corporate Research Recognition Awards
IBM External Recognition award 1989
IBM External Recognition award 1990
IBM External Recognition award 1991
IBM First Invention Plateau 1991
IBM External Recognition award 1992
IBM External Recognition award 1993
IBM Second Invention Plateau 1993<
IBM Research Division Award, January 1994
IBM External Recognition award 1994
IBM External Recognition award 1995
IBM Corporate Outstanding Invention Award (the highest level corporate award) 1995
IBM Third Invention Plateau 1996
Chaired Conferences, Workshops, Program Committees, and Courses
Creator, organizer and Technical Program Chair of the first bi-annual ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling Foundations and CAD/CAM Applications, Austin, 1991.
Organizer and Technical Chair of
the
First International Symposium on Computers in Mechanical Design and
Visualization, Lyon, France, October 1992.
Organizer and General Co-chair
of the
second bi-annual ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling
Foundations
and Applications, Montreal, 1993.
Co-chair of the Eurographics
Workshop
on Graphics Hardware, Oslo, Norway, 1994.
Organizer and General Co-chair
of the ACM/Siggraph Symposium on Solid Modeling
Foundations
and Applications, Salt Lake City, 1995.
Co-chair of program committee
for CAD/Graphics'95,
Wuhan, China, October 22-25, 1995.
Co-chair of the CAD tools
for products,
Dagstuhl, Germany, September 4-9, 1995.
Co-chair of CSGí96,
Set-theoretic
Solid Modelling: Techniques and Applications, Winchester, UK, April
17-19,
1996.
Co-chair of Eurographics'96
International
Program Committee, Poitiers, France, August 26-30, 1996.
Chair and organizer of the
GVU/NIST
TeamCAD workshop on Collaborative Design, Atlanta, 1997.
Chair of the Eurographics
Best Technical Paper Award Jury. 1997.
Program Committee Chair of the
Applied
Track for the 14th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry,
1998.
Co-chair of the ACM/SIGGRAPH
Course
on "3D Geometric Compression", 1998
Co-chair, NSF workshop
on "Distributed
Information, Computation, and Process Management for Scientific and
Engineering
Environments", Virginia, 1998.
Program co-chair for the
IFIP's ICVC
(International Conference on Visual Computing), 1999,
Goa, India
Conference co-chair, Shape
Modeling
International, University of Aizu, Japan, 1-4 March 1999.
General Chair of the ACM
Symposium
on Interactive 3D Graphics, Atlanta, April 1999.
Co-chair of the ACM/SIGGRAPH
Course
on "3D Geometric Compression", 1999.
Co-chair of the State of The
Art
Reports for Eurographics, September 1999.
Co-organizer of the ACM/SIGGRAPH
Course on "3D Geometric Compression", 2000.
Co-chair of the International
Conference
on Shape Modelling, Genova, Italy, May 7-12, 2001.
Co-chair of the International
Conference
on Shape Modelling, Genova, Italy, June 7-9, 2004.
Chair of the Eurographics
Best Technical Paper Award Jury. August 2004
Co-chair of Shape Modeling International, June 2004. Genova, Italy.
Co-Chair of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, Boston, June 2005.
Honorary Chair of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, Cardiff, UK, June 6-8, 2006.
Co-Chair of Shape Modeling International, Lyon France, June 13-15, 2007.
Co-Chair of Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Pilsen, Jan. 29-Feb 2, 2007.
Co-Chair of Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Atlanta, 2008.
Keynote Lectures
and Invited Presentations
"Hardware support for Solid
Modeling",
Invited Presentation, IEEE Computer Society, Workshop on VLSI,
Orlando,
February 1991.
"Geometric Complexity in 3D
Graphics",
Invited Opening Lecture at the Workshop on Computational Geometry,
Raleigh, NC, October 1993.
"Virtual reality as a
productivity tool",
J. Rossignac, Keynote Speaker at the Workshop on Simulation and
Interaction
in Virtual Environments, The University of Iowa, July 13-15, 1995
"CSG formulations for
identifying and
for trimming faces of CSG models", J. Rossignac. CSG'96:
Set-theoretic
solid modeling techniques and applications, 1996.
"Compression and Scalability of Shared
3D models", Invited Speaker at the Workshop on Geometric Computing
at the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Nice, France, June 4-6,
1997.
Invited Key-note speaker at the
Eurographics
Conference 1997.
"3D for everyone", Invited
speaker at
the International Symposium "Computer Graphics in the next 50 years
of computing", Fraunhofer Center, Darmstadt, Germany, October 1997.
"The 3D revolution: CAD access
for all",
Invited talk at the. International Conference on Shape Modeling and
Applications, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 1997.
"3D server for Interacting with
Complex
Remote Models", Invited Speaker at the Computer Graphics
International
Congress (CGI '98 congress), Hanover, pp. 324-335, June 24-26, 1998.
"Compression and progressive
refinement
of 3D models", invited speaker at the Shape Modeling International,
Aizu, Japan, 1-4 March, 1999.
Invited speaker at the
GM-hosted
Seminar on Interoperability and Process, Milford, Michigan, July
22,
1999.
"Collaborative Design and
Visualization",
invited presentation at the NSF workshop on Distributed Information,
Computation, and Process Management for Scientific and Engineering
Environments
(DICPM),
May 1999.
"Comparing progressive
refinement techniques
for accessing 3D triangle meshes", Keynote speech, ICVC'99
(IFIP's
International Conference on Visual Computing, Interaction, Modeling,
Rendering,
Animation, and 3D environments), Goa, India, February 23 - 26, 1999.
"Compression, simplification,
progressive
transmission and 3D navigation for the instantaneous and natural access
to highly complex 3D databases over the Internet", Key-note speaker,
Spanish
Computer Graphics Conference, Castellon, Spain, June 26, 2000.
"3D compression made simple: Edgebreaker on a Corner Table", Shape Modeling International Conference, Genoa, Italy May 2001.
"CSG-BRep Duality and Compression", J. Rossignac, ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 17 - 21, 2002
Evans and Sutherland Distinguished Lecture, University of Utah, 2001
Distinguished Lecture at John Hopkins University, November 2001
"Finger Sculpting with Digital Clay: 3D Shape Input and Output through a Computer-Controlled Real Surface. Shape Modeling International Conference, Korea, Seoul, May 12-16, 2003 (cancelled due to epidemic).
Distinguished Lecture at the Ohio State University, October 2004
"Generation and compression of 3D Meshes for Solid Modeling and Graphics", International Meshing Roundtable, Williamsburg, VA, September 19-22, 2004.
Distinguished Lecture at USC, December 2004
Distinguished Lecture at Texas A&M, February 2005
"Shape Comparison, Simplification, and Compression", WSCG'07, The 15-th International Conference on
Computer Graphics, Visualization and
Computer Vision, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 29, 2007.
Distinguished Lecture at University of Alberta, Canada, March 2007
Special Issue
Editor for Professional Journals
"Solid Modeling", Computer-Aided
Design, Vol. 23, No. 1, January/February 1991. J. Rossignac.
"Solid Modeling", International
Journal
of Computational Geometry and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 3,
September
1991. Edts. C. Hoffmann J. Rossignac and J. Turner.
"Solid Modeling", IEEE
Computer Graphics&Applications,
Vol 14, No. March 1994. With J. Turner. Selections from the 1993
Symposium
in Montreal.
"Solid modeling", Computer-Aided
Design, Vol. 26, No. 6, June, Guest Editors; J. Rossignac and J.
Turner.
"Interactive Sculpting",
ACM Transactions
on Graphics, Vol. 13, no. April 1994. J. Rossignac.
"Solid Modeling" IEEE
Transactions
On Visualization And Computer Graphics, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1996.
Guest Editors: C. Hoffmann and Jarek Rossignac.
"Solid modeling", Computer-Aided
Design, Vol. 20, No. 2, February 1997. Guest Editors: C. Hoffmann
and
J. Rossignac.
"Applications and challenges",
Computational
Geometry: Theory and Applications, Elsevier Science (North
Holland),
Guest Editor: Jarek Rossignac, Vol. 13, No. 1, May 1999.
Responsibilities
in Professional Societies
Program Director for SIAM,
Activity
Group on Geometric Design, 1993-1995.
Elected Member of the
EUROGRAPHICS
Executive Board, 1993-1999.
Chair of the Executive
Committee of the Solid Modeling Association, 2000-2005.
Editorial Board
Member for Professional Journals
ACM Transactions on Graphics.
1991 - 1995
Computer-Aided Design. 1990 - 2005
The Visual Computer. 1992 -
Computer Graphics Forum. 1995 -
Fundamentals and Applications of
CAD/CAM
and Modelling. 1997 -
International Journal of Shape
Modeling
(IJSM), 1999 -
Advisory Board Member for Computers&Graphics, since October 2000 -
Editorial Board of the Journal of WSCG, 2007 -
Member of
International
Program Committees
Eurographics Workshop on
Graphics Hardware,
Nice, France, September 1988.
Theory and Practice of Geometric
Computing,
Umiv. Tuebingen, Germany, October 1988.
Eurographics Workshops on
Graphics Hardware,
Hamburg, Germany, September 1989
Member of the Guenter Enderle
Award
Committee at the Eurographics Conference, 1989.
IFIP WG 5.2 Workshop on
Geometric Modeling
for Product Engineering, Rensselaerville NY, 1990
Eurographics Workshops on
Graphics Hardware,
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990
Eurographics Conference 1991
Eurographics Workshops on
Graphics Hardware,
1991
Eurographics Workshops on
Graphics Hardware,
1992
IFIP Workshop TC 5/WG 5.10 II
Working
conference on Geometric Modeling in Computer Graphics, 1993
Eurographics Conference 1993
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference1993
Eurographics Workshops on
Graphics Hardware,
1993
CSGí94, Set-theoretic
Solid Modeling,
techniques and applications, 1994
Eurographics Conference 1994
International Workshop on High
Performance
Computing for Computer Graphics & Visualization, Swanesa, UK, July
1995.
Eurographics Conference 1995
Graphicon'95, St. Petersburg,
July 3-7,
1995.
Computer Graphics International,
Pohang,
Korea, 1996
International Conference on
"Theory
and practice of geometric modeling", Blaubeuren, Germany, October 1996.
Eurographics Conference 1997
Bi-annual ACM/Siggraph Symposium
On
Solid Modeling Foundations And Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1997.
ACM Symposium Solid Modeling,
Atlanta,
May 1997.
Shape Modeling International,
Aizu,
Japan, March 1997.
ACM Symposium on Computational
Geometry,
Nice, June 4-6, 1997
Pacific Graphics, Korea, October
1997
International Workshop on
Computer Aided
Geometric Design: New trends and applications, Crete, Greece, June
16-20,
1997
Graphicon, Leicester, UK,
September
98.
WSCG98, 6th
International
Conf. in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization'98,
February,
1998, Czech Republic.
Eurographics Conference,
Portugal, September
1998
CSGí98, Set-theoretic
Solid Modeling,
techniques and applications, Winchester UK, 1 - 3 April 1998.
CGI (Computer Graphics
International),
Hannover, June 24-28, 1998.
IMDSP workshop on "Signal
Processing
for 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis", Alpbach, Austria, July 12-16, 1998
NSF workshop on "Distributed
Information,
Computation, and Process Mgt. for Sci. & Eng. Environments", May
15-16,
1998.
ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference,
in Atlanta, Georgia, September 13-16, 1998.
International Conference in
Central
Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization, February 1999
CGI'99, Computer Graphics
International,
Canmore, Canada , June 7-11, 1999.
Eurographics Conference, Milano,
Italy.
September 1999.
Pacific Graphics '99, Seoul,
Korea,
October 5--7, 1999.
CGIí2000, Computer
Graphics International,
Geneva Switzerland, June 19-23, 2000.
IEEE Visualization, Salt Lake
City,
October 8-13, 2000.
ACM SIGGRAPH, Orlando, July
24-28, 2000.
Eurographics Conference, Geneva,
August
20-25, 2000.
Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid
Modeling
and Applications, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 4-8, 2001
ACM Interactive 3D Graphics, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 19-21, 2001.
Eurographics Conference, Manchester, UK, September 3-7, 2001.
Eurographics Conference, Saarbruecken, Germany, September 2-6, 2002.
GEO-8 Marseille, France, June 2002.
WSCG, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 2002
ACM SIGGRAPH, San Antonio, July 2002.
Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), Aachen, Germany, 23-25 June 2003
CGS conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003 (CASA 2003), Rutgers University, May 7-9, 2003.
WSCG, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 2003.
Conference Advisory Board Member for CAD'04 in May 24-28, 2004, Pattaya, Thailand
WSCG, Plzen, Czech Republic, January-February 2004.
ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling 2004.
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, July 8-10, 2004, Nice.
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Vienna, July 4-6, 2005.
WSCG, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 31-February 04, 2005.
ACM Interactive 3D Graphics, 2005.
ACM SIGGRAPH July-August 2005.
Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), Caligary, Sardinia June 26-28, 2006
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, March 14-17, 2006
WSCG, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 30-February 03, 2006.
Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007
Shape Modeling International, StonyBrook, June 2008
WSCG, Plzen, Czech Republic, Feb 2008
External member of PhD Committees
Raja Banerjee, Univ. of Central Florida
Anil Kaul, Columbia University
Suresh Lodha, Rice University
Laurent Alt, Telecom France
Pascal Lienhardt, Univ. Strasbourg, France
Philippe Decaudin, INRIA, France, 1996
Michael Garland, CMU, 1999
Bruno Levy, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France, 1999
Carlos Saona, UPC Barcelona Spain, 2001.
Pierre-Marie Gandouin, INRIA, France, 2001.
Li Xuetao, National University of Singapore, 2002.
Thomas Lewiner: Simplification, INRIA, France, 2006
Maneli Noorkami: Watermarking Video, ECE, 2007
Nigel Stewart: CSG Rendering, RMIT, Australia, 2007
Leadership positions at Georgia Tech
Director GVU Center, 1996-2000
Chair of the CoC Honors and Awards committee, 2000
Chair of the CoC Honors and Awards committee, 2002
Chair of the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the College of Computing, 2004-2005
Vice-Chair of the Georgia Tech Executive Board, 2007