[Theory] [Talks at TTIC] NOW: 5/16 Tomer Weiss, New Jersey Institute of Technology

[Brandie Jones]

*When:    *  Monday, May 16th at *10am CT*

*Where:     via **Zo**om* (register in advance here
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j3GGtkfPQQWNukgx-tV04g&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1652726649450238&usg=AOvVaw2vR4-uMc4gvsH9NRUFWHtk>
)

*Who:        *Tomer Weiss, New Jersey Institute of Technology

*Title: *TBA

*Abstract:* TBA

*Bio:* He started his professorship Jan. 2020 with the Informatics
Department in the New Jersey Institute of Technology
<https://informatics.njit.edu/>. He also works with Wayfair
<http://www.wayfair.com/> on computational interior design. He defended his
PhD thesis at the Computer Science Department
<http://www.cs.ucla.edu/>at University
of California, Los Angeles <http://www.ucla.edu/>, advised by Prof. Demetri
Terzopoulos <http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt> from the University of California,
Los Angeles

His scientific accomplishments focus on real-time and scalable algorithms
for creating large virtual environments, and for simulating AI agents, and
crowds of agents in these environments. For these efforts, he received the ACM
SIGGRAPH Motion in Games <https://project.inria.fr/mig2017/> Best Paper
Award <https://project.inria.fr/mig2017/awards/>. Additionally, he was
selected as a finalist presenter of my doctoral dissertation at ACM
SIGGRAPH 2018 Thesis Fast Forward, and ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjkZvt86YZk> Doctoral Consortium. He has
also worked with Wayfair, Autodesk Research, Amazon Search, and Bloomberg.

*Host*: Matthew Turk <mturk at ttic.edu>



*Brandie Jones *
*Administrative Assistant*
Toyota Technological Institute
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
www.ttic.edu
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