Henry Fuchs

Henry Fuchs
Fuchs speaking at NASA Langley in 2009
Born	20 January 1948 (1948-01-20) (age 69) Tokaj, Hungary
Residence	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Citizenship	American
Fields	Computer scientist Biomedical engineer
Institutions	UNC UT Dallas
Alma mater	University of Utah
Doctoral advisor	Robert P. Plummer
Notable awards	Fellow of the AAAS Fellow of the ACM Member of the NAE ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award Steven Anson Coons Award

Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948 in Tokaj, Hungary) is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Federico GilProfessor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He is also an adjunct professor in biomedical engineering. His research interests are in computer graphics, particularly rendering algorithms, hardware, virtual environments, telepresence systems, and applications in medicine. He was previously with the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In 1992, he received both the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award and the Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA), and was awarded the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics in 2015.