Steve Marschner

Steve Marschner is a professor of computer science, and currently serves as the associate dean for research in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information science. His research and teaching are in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance of materials, with interests in realistic rendering, material models (optical and mechanical), appearance capture, simulation, and computational photography. Some questions that run through his work are “How can we get objects to appear to be made from exactly the right kind of material?” and “How can we cleverly use cameras to help us measure the information we need to make great images?” Marschner received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1998, and held research positions at HP Laboratories, Microsoft Research, and Stanford University before he rejoined Cornell in 2002. He is also a part-time research scientist at NVIDIA Research. He is an ACM Fellow and member of the SIGGRAPH Academy, and has received a Sloan Research Fellow, an NSF CAREER Award, and an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award.