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Olga Sorkine-Hornung (born 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich 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 at Technische Universität Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, before being appointed to ETH Zurich in 2011 at the age of 30 as the youngest professor at the time, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab. Since 2018, Sorkine-Hornung is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.
She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.




Awards


2024: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
2024: Test of Time Award at SIGGRAPH 2024
2023: Elected as member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
2022: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
2021: Golden Owl (awarded for excellence in teaching at ETH Zurich)
2020: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by CHF 200,000 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




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