About Doug
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Atheist, Engineer, Environmentalist, Inventor, Technologist
Bio
Doug is the Senior Director of Software R&D at Digital Domain. He’s been working at Digital Domain for over 25 years. Along the way he’s written a computer vision toolkit that won a Sci/Tech Academy Award (1998), a motion capture editing suite, a couple of fluid simulation packages (which led to another Sci/Tech Award in 2007) and is currently fascinated with incorporating machine learning techniques into visual effects, especially character animation. He’s been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Graphics Tools (2006-2011) and is the chair of the Academy’s Sci/Tech Awards committee (2018) and a member of the Academy’s Sci/Tech Council. This all started with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ohio State University way back in 1992.
Areas of expertise
Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Visual Effects
Things you might not know
Figure Drawing