Craig Gotsman

Craig Gotsman
Craig Gotsman and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press conference, Oct 1, 2013.
Born	Birmingham, UK
Residence	New York City
Nationality	Israel, UK
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	New Jersey Institute of Technology, Cornell Tech, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisor	Eli Shamir, Daniel Lehmann
Known for	Founding Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute (NYC), entrepreneur

Craig Gotsman is an academic innovator and hi-tech entrepreneur. He is a Distinguished Professor and the Dean of the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Before NJIT, he was Professor and the Founding Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City. Gotsman has also co-founded several technology startup companies and consulted to many large technology corporations.

Born in the UK, Gotsman spent his early childhood in South Africa. His family immigrated to Israel in 1973.

Gotsman was awarded all his degrees, including a PhD in Computer Science, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

During 1984-89, Gotsman served as an officer in the Technological R&D Unit of the Israel Defense Forces, retiring from active reserve duty in 2005 with the rank of Major.

Specializing in computer graphics and geometry processing, Gotsman joined the Computer Science Department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa as an Assistant Professor in 1991. In 2005 he co-founded the Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing, and in 2006 he became the first incumbent of the Technion’s Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering.

Gotsman was Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Research Scientist at MIT during 2003-2004, Visiting Professor at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in 2006 and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich in 2010. During 2013-2016 he was on the faculty of Cornell Tech in New York City.

Gotsman has mentored over 50 students at the postgraduate level, served on the editorial boards of computer graphics international journals and served on the program committees of international conferences in computer graphics. He has published over 150 research papers and holds 10 US patents.