Kavita Bala

Kavita Bala (born 1971) is an Indian computer scientist and academic. She is a professor in computer science at Cornell University, and has been appointed the Dean of the Faculty for Computing and Information Science.[1][2] Her research expertise is in the area of computer vision and computer graphics using deep learning. Some of her work on cloud rendering is the core production engine in Autodesk's cloud renderer.

Education

She received a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology and Master of Science (M.S) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Career

Bala is also the co-founder of Grokstyle, a graphics search company that was recently acquired by Facebook.[3][4] She is an Associate editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics.[5]

Publications

Dutré, P., Bala, K., & Bekaert, P. (2006). Advanced global illumination. Wellesley, Mass: AK Peters[6]

Recognition

She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to rendering and scene understanding".[7]

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References
  1. "Kavita Bala". www.cs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  2. "Kavita Bala Named New Dean of Computing and Information Science". Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  3. "Speakers". Computing and Information Science @20. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  4. "Facebook picks up retail computer vision outfit GrokStyle". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  5. "ACM Digital Library--TOG". Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  6. Dutré, Philip, 1966- (2006). Advanced global illumination. Bala, Kavita, 1971-, Bekaert, Philippe, 1967- (2nd ed.). Wellesley, Mass.: AK Peters. ISBN 1568813074. OCLC 228144323.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
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