Olga Sorkine-Hornung Explained

Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Thesis Title:	Laplacian Mesh Processing^[1]
Doctoral Advisor:	Daniel Cohen-Or^[2]
Alma Mater:	Tel Aviv University
Education:	Tel Aviv University (B.A., M.S. and Ph.D.)
Work Institutions:	ETH Zurich
Field:	Computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing^[3]
Birth Name:	Olga Sorkine
Birth Place:	Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Thesis Year:	2006

Olga Sorkine-Hornung (born 1981^[4]) 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.^[5] 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.

She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.

Awards

• 2020: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)^[6]
• 2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by in research funds)^[7]
• 2017: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award^[8]
• 2016: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016^[9]
• 2015: Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award for

libigl, a C++ geometry processing library^[10]

• 2015: Fellow of the Eurographics Associationlibrary^[11]
• 2014: Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014^[10]
• 2013: Intel Early Career Faculty Award^[12]
• 2012: ERC Starting Grant^[13]
• 2012: Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich^[14]
• 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award^[15]
• 2008: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award^[16]
• 2006-2008: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship^[17]
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olga Sorkine-Hornung CV.
2. Web site: Daniel Cohen-Or on Tel Aviv University.
3. Web site: Olga Sorkine-Hornung at ETH Zurich.
4. Web site: Luchetta. Simone. Die Zahlenkünstlerin. The numbers artist. 3 November 2017. Tages-Anzeiger. de.
5. Enggist . Manuela . 16 September 2016 . Olga Sorkine-Hornung - die Animations-Künstlerin . Olga Sorkine-Hornung - die Animations-Künstlerin . Schweizer Illustrierte. de.
6. ACM Fellows. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 68. 832.
7. Web site: Preistragende des Rössler-Preises.
8. Web site: The Outstanding Technical Contributions Award.
9. Web site: International Conference on 3D Vision.
10. Web site: Symposium on Geometry Processing - Award Programs.
11. Web site: Fellows.
12. Web site: Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2017 – Olga Sorkine-Hornung.
13. Web site: List of Selected Principal Investigators.
14. Web site: Preistragende des Latsis-Preises.
15. Web site: Significant New Researcher Award. 19 October 2021 .
16. Web site: Eurographics Young Researcher Award.
17. Web site: About the Foundation.