Markus Gross receives 2021 Steven Anson Coons Award
Professor Markus Gross, head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich and Vice President of Research for The Walt Disney Studios, has received the prestigious Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.
ACM Siggraph is presenting Markus Gross with the 2021 Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. Markus Gross heads the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, and is the director of DisneyResearch|Studios as well as the Vice President of Research for The Walt Disney Studios. He is being recognised for his research contributions in geometry processing, physically-based simulation, and face capturing and animation, as well as his contributions in bridging industry and academia in computer graphics.
The Steven Anson Coons Award is presented in odd-numbered years to honour an individual who has made a lifetime contribution to computer graphics and interactive techniques. Gross is the third European recipient following his PhD supervisor José Luis Encarnação, who was the second European recipient in 1995. José Luis Encarnação received the award just after Ed Catmull (1993), who was the co-founder of Pixar and the president of the Walt Disney Animation Studios.