Daniel Thalmann

Daniel Thalmann
Citizenship	Switzerland and Canada
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Nanyang Technological University École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) University of Montreal
Alma mater	University of Geneva
Known for	Virtual Human, Crowd Simulation, Virtual Rehabilitation
Notable awards	Dr. Honoris Causa, Paul-Sabatier University, Toulouse, France 2002 Eurographics Distinguished Career Award 2010 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award 2012 CGI Career Award 2015
Spouse	Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Prof. Daniel Thalmann (born January 26, 1946) is a Swiss and Canadian Computer Scientist and a pioneer in Virtual Humans. He is one of the most highly cited scientists in Computer Graphics. He is currently with the Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Honorary Professor at EPFL, Switzerland.

After a master's degree in Nuclear Physics (1970) and a combined Certificate in Statistics and Computer Science (1972) both from the University of Geneva, he earned a PhD in Computer Science (1977) also from the University of Geneva. In his PhD, he worked very early on the concept of abstract machines for portable compilers and operating systems. From 1977 to 1989, he was Professor at the University of Montreal, in Canada, where he started to work on Computer Graphics and Animation. Then, he came back to Switzerland and founded the Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland. He has been Visiting Professor/ Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Tokyo, and National University of Singapore. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of six other journals. Thalmann has published more than 500 papers in Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality. He is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including Crowd Simulation (second edition 2012) and Stepping Into Virtual Reality (2007), published by Springer.

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