16 Facts About Demetri Terzopoulos

Demetri Terzopoulos is an Academy Award winning Greek-Canadian-American computer scientist, university professor, author, and entrepreneur.

Demetri Terzopoulos went on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence in 1984 for computer vision research on the computation of visible-surface representations, advised by Shimon Ullman and J Michael Brady.

Demetri Terzopoulos then moved to UCLA, where he has been Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science since 2005 as well as Distinguished Professor, the University of California's highest distinction for faculty members, since 2012.

Since 2016, Demetri Terzopoulos has been Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of VoxelCloud, Inc.

Demetri Terzopoulos has held adjunct, visiting, consultancy, part-time, and internship positions at Schlumberger, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel, Bell-Northern Research, the National Research Council of Canada, Ontario Tech University, Paris Dauphine University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Demetri Terzopoulos has served on review and advisory committees at DARPA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Demetri Terzopoulos was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.

Demetri Terzopoulos is an internationally renowned researcher in both computer vision and computer graphics and his work has helped to unify these two fields.

Demetri Terzopoulos co-invented the seminal "active contours" algorithm, which is widely used in computer vision.

Demetri Terzopoulos pioneered the development of deformable models and their application to vision and graphics, as well as to related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design.

In 2013, at the International Conference on Computer Vision, Demetri Terzopoulos was awarded a Helmholtz Prize for his 1987 ICCV paper with Kass and Witkin entitled "Snakes: Active contour models", which received a Marr Prize citation in 1987.

In 2006, Demetri Terzopoulos was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by its Academy of Science, whose short citation reads:.

Demetri Terzopoulos is an internationally renowned leader in computer vision and computer graphics whose work has contributed fundamentally to the ongoing unification of these two fields.

Demetri Terzopoulos is famous for pioneering deformable models and for spearheading their application in vision and graphics, as well as in related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design.

Demetri Terzopoulos is the recipient of six University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Dean's Excellence Awards.

In 1973, Demetri Terzopoulos was awarded the Governor General's Academic Medal and Centennial Fund Scholarship by the High School of Montreal.