Ravi Ramamoorthi

Ravi Ramamoorthi serves as the Ronald L. Graham Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego, and founding Director of the UCSD Center for Visual Computing, while also holding a position as Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research since 2021. His academic journey includes BS and MS degrees from Caltech (1998) and a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2002), followed by influential faculty positions at Columbia and Berkeley. His groundbreaking research in computer graphics and computer vision, documented in over 200 publications with more than 36,000 citations, has earned him numerous prestigious accolades, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award (2007), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008), and fellowships in IEEE, ACM, and the SIGGRAPH Academy. His contributions to education include pioneering one of the first nine MOOCs on the edX platform, earning him recognition as a two-time recipient of the edX Prize Certificate for exceptional online teaching. His industry impact extends through consultancy roles with Pixar and various computational imaging startups, while his research continues to advance the fields of computer graphics rendering and physics-based computer vision