| David Salesin | |
| Birth Place: | Cleveland, OH, United States |
| Field: | Computer graphics |
| Work Institutions: | Google University of Washington |
| Alma Mater: | Brown University Stanford University |
| Known For: | Non-photorealistic rendering |
| Awards: | University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award (1997) SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2000) ACM Fellow (2002) |
David Salesin is an American computer scientist. He has worked in computer graphics, three-dimensional and four-dimensional mathematics, and photorealistic rendering. Until 2019, he was the Director of Snap Inc. Research Team, an affiliate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle, and previously director of the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab. He is currently a Principal Scientist at Google.
Salesin graduated from Brown University in 1983, and did graduate work at Stanford.
Salesin received a National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1993, and in 1995 was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow, receiving a National Science Foundation grant.[1]