Olga Sorkine-Hornung (born 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at

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working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011.

Personal life and career

Sorkine-Hornung was born in 1981 in the Soviet Union to a mother who is a mathematician and a Jewish father who is a physicist. They emigrated to Israel when she was twelve. She learnt the QBasic programming language when she was 13. She then studied math and computer science at Tel Aviv University graduating at the age of 19. She did her master's degree in parallel to her two-year military service, and completed her doctorate degree in 2006. Subsequently, she worked in the

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as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, before being appointed to

in 2011 at the age of 30 as the youngest professor at the time, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab. She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.

Awards

*2020: Fellow of the

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(ACM) *2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by in research funds) *2017: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award *2016: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016 *2015: Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award for libigl, a C++ geometry processing library *2015: Fellow of the Eurographics Associationlibrary *2014: Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014 *2013: Intel Early Career Faculty Award *2012: ERC Starting Grant *2012: Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich *2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award *2008: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award *2006-2008: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship *2003: Excellence award, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University *1999-2000: Dean’s List of Excellence, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University

References

Living people 1981 births Academic staff of ETH Zurich Tel Aviv University alumni Academics from Moscow 2020 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery {{Russia-academic-bio-stub