Biography:Thomas Sederberg

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Thomas W. Sederberg is an emeritus[1] professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research involved computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent free-form deformation and T-splines.[2]

Education and career

Thomas W. Sederberg studied civil engineering at Brigham Young University for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees.[3] Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983.[2] His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.[4]

He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics[5] and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.[6]

Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.[7]

He was the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences at Brigham Young University from 2005 until his retirement in 2017.[8]

Awards

SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006.[9] In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling.[4]

Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014.[3] Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.[10] His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science.[2]

Personal life

Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children. One of them is Matthew Sederberg, CEO of Coreform, a successful software company. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty - Tom Sederberg". https://cs.byu.edu/department/directories/emeritus-faculty-directory/tom-sederberg/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Dr. Sederberg earns distinction of being "Highly Cited"". BYU. https://cs.byu.edu/article/dr-sederberg-earns-distinction-being-highly-cited. Retrieved 2016-02-22. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Thomas W. Sederberg". Purdue University. 2014. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/OME/2014/sederberg.html. Retrieved 2016-02-24. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Thomas W. Sederberg, the 2013 Pierre Bézier Award Recipient". Solid Modeling Association. http://solidmodeling.org/bezier-award/thomas-w-sederberg/. Retrieved 2016-02-24. 
  5. ↑ "ACM Graphics Editorial Board". ACM. http://tog.acm.org/editorial.cfm. Retrieved 2016-02-22. 
  6. ↑ "Computer Aided Geometric Design Editorial Board". Elsevier. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-aided-geometric-design/editorial-board/. Retrieved 2016-02-22. 
  7. ↑ Hadfield, Joe. "BYU prof's design technology acquired by software giant Autodesk". BYU. https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-prof%E2%80%99s-design-technology-acquired-software-giant-autodesk. Retrieved 2016-02-22. 
  8. ↑ "Tom Sederberg". https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-sederberg-96027/. 
  9. ↑ "Awards". ACMSIGGRAPH. http://www.siggraph.org/participate/awards. Retrieved 2016-02-24. 
  10. ↑ Holligshead, Todd (December 2, 2014). "BYU professors receive prestigious awards from Purdue University". BYU News. https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-professors-receive-prestigious-awards-purdue-university. Retrieved 2016-02-24. 
  11. ↑ "Brenda Clark Sederberg". Deseret News. September 5, 2012. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?pid=159657454. Retrieved 2016-02-24. 



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