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Alla Sheffer אלה שפר

@AllaSheffer

Prof. UBC CS, Computer Graphics and Geometry Processing, SIGGRAPH EC member

Joined June 2020
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We are hiring! Please apply. Feel free to ping me if you have questions.
UBC Computer Science (@UBC_CS) profile pictureUBC Computer Science@UBC_CS22 Oct 2025
UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions, with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. cs.ubc.ca/our-department/emp…
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Our paper that explains how 3D shapes are just intersections of height fields and how to leverage this fact to compactly encode them is out : cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/202… @kwangmoo_yi @WenpingWang6 @SuzuranTakikawa @NicholasVining
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Reminder, siggraph EC elections happening now. You can vote till august 12th. Please do! We need active and knowledgeable EC members!
Alla Sheffer אלה שפר (@AllaSheffer) profile pictureAlla Sheffer אלה שפר@AllaSheffer1 Jun 2024
Elections to SIGGRAPH executive are coming up soon (voting starts June 15). Slate here: acm.org/elections/sigs/2024-… and includes some really great folks. Do renew your membership and vote!
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I am actively looking for a new postdoc. If interested talk to me at SIGGRAPH.
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Cool writeup on stuff we did last year with Animal Logic: animallogic.com/animal-logic…
R&D Research Project - Animal Logic

R&D Research Project - Animal Logic

Animal Logic is recognised as one of the world’s leading independent creative digital studios, producing award winning design, visual effects and animation for over 25 years.

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Elections to SIGGRAPH executive are coming up soon (voting starts June 15). Slate here: acm.org/elections/sigs/2024-… and includes some really great folks. Do renew your membership and vote!
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My department’s (UBC CS) remaining recruiting ads are out cs.ubc.ca/our-department/emp… . We are hiring in all areas of CS plus have separate AI/ML and theory searches. Please share widely and consider applying.
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I try to not make my feed political. But… The linked letter accurately reflects how I feel about the massacre on 10/7 and the aftermath; it is signed by Berkeley faculty I respect. docs.google.com/document/d/1… Maybe the rest of us could follow?
Open Letter on Recent Events in Israel and Gaza to the UC Berkeley community.docx

Open Letter on Recent Events in Israel and Gaza to the UC Berkeley community.docx

Open Letter on Recent Events in Israel and Gaza to the UC-Berkeley Community To sign the letter, click here. We are Berkeley faculty who are deeply concerned about recent and ongoing events in the...

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And following up on the post below. We now have the ad out for our AI search cs.ubc.ca/our-department/emp…. Do consider applying and forwarding to anyone on the job market. There are two more ads coming (ubc approval processes takes time…).
Alla Sheffer אלה שפר (@AllaSheffer) profile pictureAlla Sheffer אלה שפר@AllaSheffer12 Oct 2023
My dept. (ubc cs) is hiring into multiple faculty positions this year. The ad for the tenure track assistant professor positions is still in the works, and I will post it once out. Our tenure track teaching/EL stream ads are out : cs.ubc.ca/our-department/emp…. Please share widely.

Faculty & Sessionals Positions

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My dept. (ubc cs) is hiring into multiple faculty positions this year. The ad for the tenure track assistant professor positions is still in the works, and I will post it once out. Our tenure track teaching/EL stream ads are out : cs.ubc.ca/our-department/emp…. Please share widely.

Faculty & Sessionals Positions

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I usually keep my Twitter strictly professional. But this is not a usual time. The thread bellow is pretty close to how I feel and is well articulated.
Jonathan Rosenthal (@rosenthal_jon) profile pictureJonathan Rosenthal@rosenthal_jon10 Oct 2023
I have been struggling to articulate the complex emotions I've been feeling since Saturday morning as a Jew, a liberal/progressive, a believer that Palestinians and Jews have a right to a homeland, to safety and dignity. A thread 1/
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Question to the graphics community: does anyone know or has a pointer to any analysis of gender distribution among graphics researchers or graduate students? Anecdotally I know that the numbers are heavily skewed, but no idea how skewed…
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And an update. I had been elected to the SIGGRAPH EC. Thank you to everyone who voted! Looking forward to learning how the sausage is made :).
Alla Sheffer אלה שפר (@AllaSheffer) profile pictureAlla Sheffer אלה שפר@AllaSheffer16 Jun 2023
I am running to be a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee - to vote go here acm.org/elections/sigs/acm-s…. Mine and other candidate's bio and platforms are here: acm.org/binaries/content/ass… . Please vote - EC has a large impact on graphics researchers and practitioners.
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Alla Sheffer אלה שפר retweeted
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Kwang Moo Yi@kwangmoo_yi17 Jul 2023
A few things I ask my students to do when writing reviews: 1. Remove all adverbs 2. Try removing all adjectives 3. You are not the judge -- you are either the prosecutor or the lawyer. 4. Be evidence-based. 5. Be kind -- there's someone's <1y of life behind it.
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This is a paper I am an author on (ICCV not SA). The reviewer comments that our entire research idea is “not good” as it can’t deal with common geometric models. I thought that we showed 100+ of these so I may need to relearn geometry..
Kwang Moo Yi (@kwangmoo_yi) profile pictureKwang Moo Yi@kwangmoo_yi17 Jul 2023
Wow.... the second time in my 15y in academia when I get literally "your research idea is not good" in the review. As a senior, I brush this off, but I am sorry for the student who had to see this. We need more kindness :) You can always say the same thing in a nicer way.
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SIGGRAPH just came out with grants for early career folks attending this years conference: siggraph.org/news/acm-siggra…. The deadline is very tight, so do spread the word to all eligible folks and apply yourself if eligible..
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I am running to be a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee - to vote go here acm.org/elections/sigs/acm-s…. Mine and other candidate's bio and platforms are here: acm.org/binaries/content/ass… . Please vote - EC has a large impact on graphics researchers and practitioners.
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Me talking to CBC about VR/AR cbc.ca/news/business/apple-v…

Is virtual reality the future? Apple's betting on it, but VR experts say we may not be there yet |...

On Monday, Apple unveiled a new product that's either revolutionary, or very expensive hype, depending on whether you read the company description of the Vision Pro or media reviews of its unveiling. 

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Hot take: we need a non-neural track for the remaining few papers of this category at conferences ;). Let's also give them a badge. Here is my humble proposal.
Image from Wenzel Jakob {deprecation notice} (@wenzeljakob)
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For folks submitting to the SIGGRAPH'23 Technical Papers Program. Since we are getting questions about the figures only pages: the figures on these pages can have captions (please keep those short) and can be referenced form inside the paper.
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