Prof. Dr. Olga Sorkine Hornung
Prof. Dr. Olga Sorkine Hornung
Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Additional information
Research area
Olga Sorkine-Hornung’s research focuses on computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She is interested in the theoretical foundations and practical algorithms for digital content creation, such as shape representation and editing, artistic modeling techniques, digital fabricatio, computer animation and image and video processing. She works on fundamental problems in digital geometry processing, including parameterization of discrete surfaces and compression of geometric data.
Olga Sorkine-Hornung is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab.
She was born in the Moscow Region, Russia.
2000 she earned her BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and 2006 her PhD in Computer Science from the same university.
2006-2008 she worked as a Postdoc at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.
2008-2011 she held a position as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the New York University, NY, USA.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Best Paper Honorable Mention at EUROGRAPHICS 2024 |
| 2023 | Elected as member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, the SATW |
| 2022 | Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2022 |
| 2022 | Test of Time Award at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022 |
| 2021 | Golden Owl (awarded for excellence in teaching at ETH Zurich) |
| 2020 | ACM Fellow |
| 2020 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2020 | Symposium on Geometry Processing Best Paper Award |
| 2020 | Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award |
| 2017 | Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award |
| 2017 | Rössler Prize |
| 2016 | Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) |
| 2015 | Fellow of the Eurographics Association |
| 2015 | Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award |
| 2014 | Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing |
| 2013 | Intel Early Career Faculty Award |
| 2012 | ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council |
| 2012 | Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich |
| 2011 | Significant New Researcher Award, awarded by ACM SIGGRAPH |
| 2008 | Young Researcher Award of the Eurographics Association |
| 2006 | Humboldt Research Fellowship (Technical University Berlin), Germany |
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 252-0538-00L | Shape Modeling and Geometry Processing |
| 252-5704-00L | Advanced Methods in Computer Graphics |
| 264-5800-25L | Doctoral Seminar in Visual Computing (FS25) |