Eitan Grinspun
- Visual Effects
Eitan Grinspun is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University and Director of the Columbia Computer Graphics Group. He was
Professeur d'Université Invité at l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie in
Paris in 2009, a Research Scientist at the Courant Institute from
2003-2004, a graduate student at California Institute of Technology
from 1997-2003, and an undergraduate in the Engineering Science program
at the University of Toronto from 1993-1997. He was an NVIDIA Fellow in
2001, Everhart Distinguished Lecturer in 2003, NSF CAREER Award
recipient in 2007, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2010-2012, and
one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant Ten Scientists" in 2011.
The technologies his group developed are used in products such as Adobe
Photoshop & Illustrator, at major film studios such as Disney and Weta
Digital, and in basic scientific research.