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Portrait of Zoran Popović

Zoran Popović

Professor

Focus Area: Artificial Intelligence, Computing + Biology, Human-Centered Computing

Expertise: Computational Biology; Computer Graphics & Animation; Computer Vision; Robotics

Email: zoran@cs.washington.edu
Office: CSE 590

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Graphics & Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL)

Biography:

Zoran Popovic is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he directs the Center for Game Science. He is also founder and Chief Scientist at Enlearn. He received a Sc.B. with Honors from Brown University, and M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His Ph.D. dissertation research focused on the automatic synthesis and transformation of realistic character animation.

Zoran’s research interests lie in computer graphics and interactive games research, focusing on scientific discovery through game play, learning games, high-fidelity human modeling and animation, and control of realistic natural motion. He led the team that produced Foldit, a biochemistry game whose outcomes were published in Nature.

A member of the UW faculty since 1999, Zoran has also held research positions at Sun Microsystems, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center and University of California at Berkeley. His contributions to the field of computer graphics have been recognized by a number of awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.