\nDuring EUROGRAPHICS 2014 the Fellows of the Association made a proposal to the\nExecutive Committee that new Fellows be elected. The proposal was accepted and the names\nof the new Fellow were announced at the General Assembly. The new Fellows are\nFr\u00e9do Durand, Eugene Fiume, Heidrun Schumann and Michela Spagnuolo.\nThe contributions which they have made to computer\ngraphics and to EUROGRAPHICS are outlined below together with the reasons for their\nnomination. Congratulations to all four!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFr\u00e9do Durand is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer \nScience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of \nthe Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He \nreceived his PhD from Grenoble University, France, in 1999, supervised \nby Claude Puech and George Drettakis. Before that he graduated from the \nprestigious Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris. From 1999 till 2002, he \nwas a post-doctoral researcher in the MIT Computer Graphics Group with \nJulie Dorsey. \nHis research interests are in computer graphics and computational \nphotography. They span most aspects of picture generation and creation, \nwith emphasis on mathematical analysis, signal processing, and \ninspiration from perceptual sciences. A sampling of his most recent work\n includes work on motion magnification, image-manipulation, \ndomain-specific languages, light transport among many others. He has \npublished extensively (40 papers at ACM SIGGRAPH, and many more at \nEUROGRAPHICS, EGSR, SIGGRAPH Asia, ACM TOG etc.), including several very\n highly cited papers. Notable examples of these include his work on \nfast-bilateral filter for HDR imaging, coded aperture cameras and \nfeature-preserving mesh smoothing. \nFr\u00e9do has supervised a large number of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral \nfellows, who have continued in their research careers, many of them \nexcelling either in academia or in industry.\nHe co-organized the first Symposium on Computational Photography and \nVideo in 2005, the first International Conference on Computational \nPhotography in 2009, and was IPC co-chair of the EUROGRAHICS Symposium \non Rendering in 2012. He was on the advisory board of the ACM SIGGRAPH \nand several other conferences, and has participated numerous times in \nthe ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS program committees, among others. He \nreceived an inaugural EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award in 2004, an \nNSF CAREER award in 2005, an inaugural Microsoft Research New Faculty \nFellowship in 2005, a Sloan fellowship in 2006, and a Spira award for \ndistinguished teaching in 2007.\nFr\u00e9do has contributed numerous groundbreaking scientific results and is \none of the leading figures in our field today. He was one of the main \ncontributors to the creation of the field of computational photography, \nwhich is now considered one of the four main areas in Computer Graphics.\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFr\u00e9do Durand was elected to a Fellowship of the Association in recognition of:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEugene Fiume is professor of Computer Science at the University of \nToronto. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a PhD in \ncomputer science in 1986, supervised by Alain Fournier and Eric Hehner. \n His postdoctoral work was done in 1986-87 at the University of Geneva \nunder Dennis Tsichritzis. At that time he started a long term research \nrelationship with European colleagues, later working as a Visiting \nProfessor at the University of Grenoble, France. He has been a member of\n various boards, including the Scientific Advisory Board of GMD, (Bonn, \nGermany) and of the Max Planck Centre for Visual Computing and \nCommunication (Saarbrucken, Germany), as well as many industrial boards.\n After spending time in industry with Alias\/Wavefront, he led the \ndepartment of computer science in Toronto as chair where he was \ninstrumental in hiring more than thirty faculty, raising the \ninternational ranking of the department into the top ten in the world, \nand helped raise \\$3.5M of funds for the department from external \ndonors. Currently he helps lead the Dynamic Graphics Project. He is \ndirector of the Masters of Science in Applied Computing programme at the\n University of Toronto, and is Principal Investigator of a \\$6M project \non the construction of a digital media and systems lab. He has recently \naccepted the role of the next Scientific Director of the GRAND NCE in \n2015 involving researchers in more than 25 universities and technology \ncompanies.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHis early research work was on the mathematical foundations of computer \ngraphics, which were particularly recognised in Europe. Following this,\n Eugene’s main scientific contributions have been to physically and \nvisually realistic computer graphics; he has also made contributions to \nmedical physics, biomechanics, anatomy, computational physics, and \nradiative transfer. His papers span these fields, with many \npublications appearing in EUROGRAPHICS (including a best paper award) \nand ACM SIGGRAPH; he has a long list of successful PhD students and \nformer employees with whom he has had productive collaborations. Alain\n Fournier was his most frequent collaborator, and together they made \nmany contributions to sampling, filtering and rendering problems.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEugene’s work has also affected computer graphics in practical ways. \nThe “wire” deformation technique, developed with Karan Singh, is now \nubiquitous in commercial geometric modelling and animation. Work with \nJos Stam in simulating wind, smoke, clouds and fire broke the ground for\n future efforts in this area and this work led to successful commercial \ndeployment in hundreds of films requiring the realistic simulation and \ncontrol of natural phenomena.\nHis work with Alias and subsequently Autodesk stimulated a more than \ntwenty-year relationship involving over 100 Toronto\ngraduates, many of whom are still with Autodesk.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEugene has a long list of contributions to the scientific community of \ncomputer graphics, some mentioned above, and which also includes \nconference organization, committee memberships, refereeing and \neditorships.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEugene Fiume was elected to a Fellowship of the Association in recognition of:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHeidrun Schumann is professor of Computer Graphics at the Institute for \nComputer Science, University of Rostock, Germany since 1992. Her main \nresearch fields are Computer Graphics, Visualization and \nHuman-Computer-Interaction. She leads a research team working on a wide \nrange of topics, including visualization of multivariate data in time \nand space, information visualization and visual analytics, user support \nfor visualization and visualization design, visual interfaces for mobile\n devices and multi-display environments, image transmission and image \ndisplay in mobile contexts and rendering. She has published extensively \nin these fields in many journals and conferences. She is co-author of \none of the few visualization textbooks in German and of a recent \ntextbook on visualizing time-oriented data. She has supervised at least \n27 PhD students and about 170 Masters students. She teaches computer \ngraphics and visual computing at Bachelors and Masters levels. She has \nserved on numerous program committees and she is one of the EuroVis 2014\n full papers co-chairs. She is an Associate Editor of the Computers \n& Graphics journal.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHeidrun Schumann was elected to a Fellowship of the Association in recognition of:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMichela Spagnuolo is currently Research Director at the Institute of \nApplied Mathematics and Information Technologies, in Genova, of the \nNational Research Council of Italy (CNR-IMATI). She received the \nDoctorate degree in Computer Science Engineering at the INSA Lyon, \nFrance, and the Laurea degree (with honors) in Applied Mathematics at \nthe Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Genova, under the \nsupervision of Dr Bianca Falcidieno. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAt CNR-IMATI, she is leading the research group on “Advanced techniques \nfor the analysis and synthesis of \nmultidimensional media”. Her research activities started with a focus on\n geometric reasoning for the analysis and characterization of shapes and\n on the use of fuzzy arithmetic for the representation of uncertainty in\n geometric models. She has been actively involved in the development of \nsemantics-driven approaches for representing 3D shapes, based on \ncoupling knowledge technologies with geometric representations In this \narea, she was heavily involved in the definition and development of the \nAIM@SHAPE repository which is now among the most cited sources of shape \nmodels in Computer Graphics papers. Recently, her research interests \nhave focused mainly on computational topology approaches for shape \nanalysis and for the evaluation of similarity at the structural and \nsemantic level. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOn these research topics, she has co-supervised several PhD and Ms \nthesis, and authored more than 140 reviewed papers in scientific \njournals and international conferences. She is an associate editor of \nComputers & Graphics and The Visual Computer and she was associate \neditor of Computer Graphics Forum. She co-edited \nthe book “Shape Analysis and Structuring”, published by Springer, and \nwas guest-editor of several journal special issues and conference \nproceedings. Among these, the special issue of Computers & Graphics \non executable papers for 3D object retrieval, fostering the adoption of \nreproducibility as a criteria of evaluation of research in Computer \nGraphics.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nShe is a member of the steering committee of the Shape Modelling \nInternational conference, and was programme chair of various \ninternational conferences and workshops. She has been working as \nscientific responsible for many international and national projects, \nwhere geometry processing was studied in various application domains, \nfrom biomedicine and bioinformatics to the processing of large \ngeospatial data.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nShe has served EUROGRAPHICS in numerous ways including the promotion of \nthe EUROGRAPHICS workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, which has been \norganized regularly as an EG workshop co-located with the main \nconference since 2008. She has served as a EUROGRAPHICS Programme \nCommittee member, as tutorial and State-of-the-Art co-chair, and as \nWorkshop chair of the EG Symposium on Geometry Processing in 2013. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMichela Spagnuolo was elected to a Fellowship of the Association in recognition of:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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