Daniel Thalmann

Biography

Prof. Daniel Thalmann is a Swiss and Canadian Computer Scientist. He is currently Honorary Professor at EPFL, Switzerland, Senior Principal Scientist, Naditech/NovaCityNets, Singapore and Director of Research Development at MIRALab Sarl. Pioneer in research on Virtual Humans, his current research interests also include social robots, crowd simulation and Virtual Reality.

Daniel Thalmann has been the Founder of The Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland, Professor at The University of Montreal and Visiting Professor/ Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska, University of Tokyo, and National University of Singapore. From 2009 to 2018, he was Visiting Professor at the Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

He is coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of 12 other journals. Daniel Thalmann was Program Chair and CoChair of several conferences including IEEE-VR, ACM-VRST, CASA, CGI and ACM-VRCAI. Daniel Thalmann has published more than 600 papers in Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality.

He is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including 'Crowd Simulation' (second edition 2012) and 'Stepping Into Virtual Reality' (2007), published by Springer. He has been the PhD supervisor for 57 students in EPFL, Switzerland and co-supervisor of 6 students in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

He has been expert for numerous funding agencies including European Union, National Science Foundation, USA, Academy of Finland, Greek Department of Industry, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Research Foundation, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Science and Engineering Research Council in Singapore, Austrian Research Foundation, Basic Research Foundation of Israel, Georgia National Science Foundation.

He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1977 from the University of Geneva and an Honorary Doctorate from University Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse, France, in 2003. He also received the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award in 2010, the 2012 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award, and the CGI 2015 Career Achievement.

Daniel Thalmann is one of the most highly cited scientists in Computer Graphics (Google scholar h-index 85).

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