Demetri Terzopoulos

Demetri Terzopoulos is an Academy Award winning Greek-Canadian-American computer scientist, university professor, and entrepreneur. He is best known for pioneering the physics-based approach to computer graphics and vision that has helped unify these two fields, and for introducing Deformable Models, among them the seminal Active Contour Models, to graphics, vision, medical imaging, and other domains; he is also known for his artificial life research on realistic animal and human modeling and simulation, encompassing musculoskeletal biomechanics, neuromuscular and neuro-sensorimotor control, and artificial intelligence. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directs the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory.