Bui Tuong Phong
| Bùi Tường Phong | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 14, 1942 Hanoi, French Indochina |
| Died | July 1975 (aged 32) |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Alma mater | University of Utah |
| Known for |
Phong reflection model Phong shading |
Bùi Tường Phong (December 14, 1942 – July 1975) was a Vietnamese-born French-American computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His publications are most often referred to using his family name, Bui, which comes before his given name by Vietnamese convention. His inventions are remembered under his given name Phong, since it is conventional to address Vietnamese persons by their given name.
Phong was born in Hanoi, then French Indochina. After attending the Lycée Albert Sarraut there, he moved with his family to Saigon in 1954, where he attended the Lycée Jean Jacques Rousseau. He went to France in 1964 and was admitted to the Grenoble Institute of Technology. He received his Licence ès Sciences from Grenoble in 1966 and his Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, in 1968. In 1968, he joined the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (then IRIA) as a researcher in Computer Science, working in the development of operating systems for digital computers.
He went to the University of Utah College of Engineering in September 1971 as a research assistant in Computer Science and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1973.
Phong knew that he was terminally ill with leukemia while he was a student. In 1975, after his tenure at the University of Utah, Phong joined Stanford University as a professor.
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