Thomas Sederberg

Thomas W. Sederberg is the associate dean of the college of physcial and mathematical sciences and professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research involves computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent free-form deformation and T-splines.[1]

Education and career

Sederberg studied civil engineering at Brigham Young University for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees.[2] Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983.[1] His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.[3]

He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics[4] and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.[5]

Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.[6]

Awards

SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006.[7] In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling.[3]

Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014.[2] Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.[8] His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science.[1]

Personal life

Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children. In 1995 Brenda was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and she died in 2012.[9]

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See also

References
  1. "Dr. Sederberg earns distinction of being "Highly Cited"". BYU Computer Science. BYU. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  2. "Thomas W. Sederberg". Purdue University Mechanical Engineering. Purdue University. 2014. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  3. "Thomas W. Sederberg, the 2013 Pierre Bézier Award Recipient". Solid Modeling Association. Solid Modeling Association. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  4. "ACM Graphics Editorial Board". ACM Digital Library. ACM. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  5. "Computer Aided Geometric Design Editorial Board". Elsevier. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  6. Hadfield, Joe. "BYU prof's design technology acquired by software giant Autodesk". BYU News. BYU. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  7. "Awards". ACMSIGGRAPH. ACMSIGGRAPH. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  8. Holligshead, Todd (December 2, 2014). "BYU professors receive prestigious awards from Purdue University". BYU News. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  9. "Brenda Clark Sederberg". Deseret News. September 5, 2012. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
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