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Brian Curless is a Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he joined the faculty in January 1998. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, initially pursuing a pre-med path before focusing on mathematics. He worked as an electrical engineer for a year before returning to graduate school, obtaining M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1991 and 1997 respectively. His thesis research involved 3D range scanning, which facilitated his participation in the Digital Michelangelo Project at Stanford. This project involved scanning significant sculptures of Michelangelo in Florence during the winter of 1999. Professor Curless's research interests encompass various areas, including augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, computer graphics and animation, computer vision, multi-view stereo, computational photography, range scanning, surface shape and appearance reconstruction, human shape modeling, and physics-based modeling of object deformation. Outside of academia, he enjoys traveling, playing badminton, billiards, and beer, particularly microbrews from the Northwest.
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