Demetri Terzopoulos

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Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC
Demetri Terzopoulos at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
Awards	FRS, FRSC ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow Guggenheim Fellow IEEE Computer Pioneer Award Academy Award for Technical Achievement PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award Helmholtz Prize
Alma mater	MIT (PhD) McGill University (BEng, MEng)
Known for	Deformable Models Active Contour Models Human and animal simulation
Spouse	Noemi Terzopoulos
Children	2
Scientific career
Fields	Computer graphics Computer vision Medical image analysis Computer-aided design Artificial intelligence/life
Institutions	University of California New York University University of Toronto
Thesis	Multiresolution computation of visible-surface representations (1984)
Doctoral advisors	Shimon Ullman J. Michael Brady
Website	terzopoulos.com

Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC^[1][2] is a Greek-Canadian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur.^[3][4] He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's 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 Graphics & Vision Laboratory.