Professor Dr. Misha Kazhdan

Biography

Michael “Misha” Kazhdan is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, considered a leader in image geometry processing, particularly in surface reconstruction and shape analysis. He holds a secondary appointment at the Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science. Kazhdan's research group focuses on developing data structures and algorithms for efficiently reconstructing high-resolution surfaces from large point clouds and creating new techniques for analyzing the geometry of 3D shapes, which provide means for performing shape retrieval in databases of 3D models. He has developed 20 software programs including PoissonRecon, which was used by NASA for reconstructing Martian landscape data collected by the Curiosity rover. Kazhdan has received the NSF CAREER Award and the Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award in 2016. He serves on the program committee for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference and as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics. Kazhdan received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1997 and earned his master’s degree and PhD in computer science from Princeton University in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He joined the Whiting School of Engineering faculty in 2004.

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