Eftychios Sifakis Author

Eftychios Sifakis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2007) from Stanford University. Between 2007-2010 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in Computer Science and Mathematics. His research focuses on scientific computing, physics-based modeling and computer graphics. He is particularly interested in biomechanical modeling for applications such as character animation, medical simulations, and virtual surgical environments. Eftychios has served as a research consultant with Intel Corporation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and SimQuest LLC, and is a co-founder of the Wisconsin Applied Computing Center and recipient of the NSF CAREER award.Jernej Barbic is an associate professor of computer science at University of Southern California. In 2011, MIT Technology Review named him one of the Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35 in the world (TR35). Jernejs research interests include nonlinear solid deformation modeling, model reduction, collision detection and contact, optimal control, and interactive design of deformations and animations. He is the author of Vega FEM, an efficient free C/C++ software physics library for deformable object simulation. Jernej is a Sloan Fellow (2014).