Julie Dorsey is an American computer scientist specializing in

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

. With

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

as a driving application, her research in computer graphics has included work on

high-dynamic-range imaging In photography and videography, multi-exposure HDR capture is a technique that creates extended or high dynamic range (HDR) images by taking and combining multiple exposures of the same subject matter at different exposure levels. Combining mu ...

image-based modeling and rendering In computer graphics and computer vision, image-based modeling and rendering (IBMR) methods rely on a set of two-dimensional images of a scene to generate a three-dimensional model and then render some novel views of this scene. The traditional ...

, and billboarding. She is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Computer Science at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, and the founder and Chief Scientist of 3D sketching software compan
Mental Canvas

Education and career

Dorsey was an undergraduate at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

, where she earned bachelor's degrees in both architecture and computer science. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at Cornell in 1993. Her dissertation, ''Computer Graphics Techniques For Opera Lighting Design And Simulation'', was supervised by Donald P. Greenberg. She was a tenured professor of computer science and engineering and architecture at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

before moving to Yale in 2002.

Contributions

Dorsey is the co-author of the book ''Digital Modeling of Material Appearance'' (with

Holly Rushmeier Holly Rushmeier is an American computer scientist and is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She is known for her contributions to the field of computer graphics. Biography Rushmeier has received three degrees in ...

and François Sillion, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008). She was editor-in-chief of ''

ACM Transactions on Graphics ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'' (TOG) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of computer graphics. It was established in 1982 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. TOG publishes two special ...

'' from 2012 to 2014.

Recognition

Dorsey was the winner of the Richard Kelly Award of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2018 she was a winner of the Microsoft Female Founders Competition, providing venture capital to fund her company Mental Canvas.

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