Demetri Terzopoulos

Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC
Demetri Terzopoulos at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
Awards	ACM Fellow Academy Award for Technical Achievement Guggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Graphics Computer Vision Medical Image Analysis Computer-Aided Design Artificial Intelligence
Thesis	Multiresolution computation of visible-surface representations (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Shimon Ullman Mike Brady
Doctoral students	Xiaowei Ding Chenfanfu Jiang Jingyi (Franklin) Fang Wenjia Huang Jin Kyu Gahm Kresimir Petrinec Weiguang (Justin) Si William R. Hewlett II Gautam Prasad Petros Faloutsos Radek Grzeszczuk Sung-Hee Lee Timothy McInerney Dimitris Metaxas Sageev Oore Hong Qin Faisal Qureshi Tamer Rabie Wei Shao David Tonnesen Xiaoyuan Tu M. Alex O. Vasilescu Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu Luiz Velho Qinxin Yu
Known for	Active contour models
Website terzopoulos.com

Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC is a Professor of Computer Science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directs the UCLA Computer Computer graphics & Computer vision Laboratory.

Terzopoulos was educated at McGill University where he was awarded an Honours Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1978 and a Master of Engineering degree in 1980, both in electrical engineering. He went on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a PhD in 1984 for research on the computation of visible-surface representations, advised by Shimon Ullman and Mike Brady.

Following his PhD, Terzopoulos was a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a program leader at Schlumberger research centers in California and Texas, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Dynamic Graphics Project of University of Toronto, and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University where he held a Lucy and Henry Moses Endowed Professorship in Science. He then moved to UCLA, where he has been Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science since 2005 and Distinguished Professor since 2012.