Olga Sorkine-Hornung
{{short description|Computer scientist}}
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| name = Olga Sorkine-Hornung
| native_name = אולגה סורקין-הורנונג
| native_name_lang = he
| image = ETH-BIB-Sorkine-Hornung, Olga-Portr 17472.jpg
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| thesis_title = Laplacian Mesh Processing{{cite web|title=Olga Sorkine-Hornung CV|url=https://igl.ethz.ch/people/sorkine/Sorkine_CV.pdf}}
| doctoral_advisor = Daniel Cohen-Or{{cite web|title=Daniel Cohen-Or on Tel Aviv University|url=https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~dcor/}}
| alma_mater = Tel Aviv University
| education = Tel Aviv University (B.A., M.S. and Ph.D.)
| work_institutions = ETH Zurich
| field = Computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing{{cite web|title=Olga Sorkine-Hornung at ETH Zurich|url=https://inf.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.sorkine.html}}
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| birth_name = Olga Sorkine
| birth_place = Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}}
| caption = Olga Sorkine, 2019
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| thesis_year = 2006
| website = {{URL|http://igl.ethz.ch/}}
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Olga Sorkine-Hornung (Hebrew: אולגה סורקין-הורנונג, Russian: Ольга Соркин-Хорнунг; born 1981{{cite web|last=Luchetta|first=Simone|title=Die Zahlenkünstlerin|trans-title=The numbers artist|url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/technik/die-zahlenkuenstlerin/story/18773625|date=3 November 2017|website=Tages-Anzeiger|language=de}}) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011.
Personal life and career
Sorkine-Hornung was born in 1981 in the Soviet Union to a mother who is a mathematician and a Jewish father who is a physicist. They emigrated to Israel when she was twelve. She learnt the QBasic programming language when she was 13. She then studied math and computer science at Tel Aviv University graduating at the age of 19. She did her master's degree in parallel to her two-year military service, and completed her doctorate degree in 2006.{{cite magazine |last=Enggist |first=Manuela |date=16 September 2016 |title=Olga Sorkine-Hornung - die Animations-Künstlerin |trans-title=Olga Sorkine-Hornung - die Animations-Künstlerin |url=https://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/gesellschaft/thema/olga-sorkine-hornung-eth-zuerich-informatik |magazine=Schweizer Illustrierte|language=de}} Subsequently, she worked at Technische Universität Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, before being appointed to ETH Zurich in 2011 at the age of 30 as the youngest professor at the time, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab. Since 2018, Sorkine-Hornung is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.{{Cite web |title=igl {{!}} Interactive Geometry Lab {{!}} ETH Zurich {{!}} Prof. Dr. Olga Sorkine-Hornung |url=https://igl.ethz.ch/people/sorkine/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=igl.ethz.ch |language=en-US}}
She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.
Awards
- 2024: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
- 2024: Test of Time Award at SIGGRAPH 2024
- 2023: Elected as member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- 2022: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing{{Cite web |date=2022-07-11 |title=Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins SGP test-of-time award |url=https://inf.ethz.ch/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2022/07/sgp-test-of-time-award-sorkine-hornung.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=ETH Zurich |language=en}}
- 2021: Golden Owl (awarded for excellence in teaching at ETH Zurich)
- 2020: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM){{Cite journal|title=ACM Fellows|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202105/rnoti-p824.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=68|pages=832}}
- 2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by {{CHF|200,000|ISO=yes}} in research funds){{cite web|title=Preistragende des Rössler-Preises|url=https://ethz.ch/de/forschung/wissenschaftspreise-und-veranstaltungen/roessler-preis/roessler-preistragende.html}}{{Cite web |title=Rössler-Preis • ETH Zürich Foundation |url=https://ethz-foundation.ch/roessler-preis/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=ETH Zürich Foundation |language=de-DE}}
- 2017: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award{{cite web|title=The Outstanding Technical Contributions Award|url=https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/the-outstanding-technical-contributions-award/}}
- 2016: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016{{cite web|title=International Conference on 3D Vision|url=http://3dv.stanford.edu/index.html}}
- 2015: Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award for libigl, a C++ geometry processing library{{cite web|title=Symposium on Geometry Processing - Award Programs|url=http://awards.geometryprocessing.org/}}
- 2015: Fellow of the Eurographics Associationlibrary{{cite web|title=Fellows|url=https://www.eg.org/wp/fellows/}}
- 2014: Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014
- 2013: Intel Early Career Faculty Award{{cite web|title=Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2017 – Olga Sorkine-Hornung|url=https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/the-outstanding-technical-contributions-award/outstanding-technical-contributions-award-2017-olga-sorkine-hornung/}}
- 2012: ERC Starting Grant{{cite web|title=List of Selected Principal Investigators|url=https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2012_stg_results_all_domains.pdf}}
- 2012: Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich{{cite web|title=Preistragende des Latsis-Preises|url=https://ethz.ch/de/forschung/wissenschaftspreise-und-veranstaltungen/latsis-preis/latsis-preistragende.html}}
- 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award{{cite web|title=Significant New Researcher Award|date=19 October 2021 |url=https://www.siggraph.org/about/awards/significant-new-researcher-award/}}
- 2008: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award{{cite web|title=Eurographics Young Researcher Award|url=https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/the-young-researcher-award/}}
- 2006-2008: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship{{cite web|title=About the Foundation|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/newsletter-1-2009-8-en.html}}
- 2003: Excellence award, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
- 1999-2000: Dean’s List of Excellence, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
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