Thomas Sederberg
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Thomas W. Sederberg is an emeritus[1] professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research involved computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent free-form deformation and T-splines.[2]
Education and career
Thomas W. Sederberg studied civil engineering at Brigham Young University for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees.[3] Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983.[2] His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.[4]
He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics[5] and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.[6]
Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.[7]
He was the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences at Brigham Young University from 2005 until his retirement in 2017.[8]
Awards
SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006.[9] In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling.[4]
Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014.[3] Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.[10] His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science.[2]
Personal life
Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children. One of them is Matthew Sederberg, CEO of Coreform, a successful software company. [11]