Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Olga Sorkine-Hornung is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and head of the Institute of Visual Computing. She leads the Interactive Geometry Lab, focusing on theoretical and practical advancements in digital content creation, geometry processing, and shape modeling.

• Current position: ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science
• Previous roles: Courant Institute (NYU), Technical University of Berlin
• Education: BSc and PhD from Tel Aviv University, postdoc at TU Berlin

Her research spans shape representation, digital fabrication, computer animation, and fundamental geometry processing. Key contributions include Laplacian surface editing, as-rigid-as-possible deformation, and generalized winding numbers. She works on applications in VR, AR, and autonomous systems.

Awards include Test of Time Awards (2024), ACM Fellow (2020), ERC Consolidator Grant (2020), and EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award (2008). She has supervised numerous students and co-developed software libraries like libigl and Instant Meshes.

• Co-chair roles for SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and Pacific Graphics
• Editorial board member for ACM Transactions on Graphics and other journals
• Keynote speaker at VMV, CVPR, and SIAM conferences

Her work bridges mathematical rigor with practical implementation, advancing computer graphics and geometry processing through intuitive algorithms that maintain surface detail while enabling efficient computation.