Zoran Popović

Zoran Popović is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, Director of the Center for Game Science, and Founder and Chief Scientist of Enlearn. His research focuses on computer graphics and interactive games, particularly scientific discovery through gameplay, learning games, high-fidelity human modeling and animation, and control of natural motion. He led the team that produced Foldit; related results were published in Nature. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1999 and previously held research positions at Sun Microsystems, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center, and the University of California, Berkeley.

• 1999·University of Washington | Joined the Paul G. Allen School faculty; currently Professor of Computer Science
• Dates not stated | Sun Microsystems, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center, and University of California, Berkeley | Research positions

• 1999·Carnegie Mellon University | Ph.D. in Computer Science
  • Dissertation research focused on the automatic synthesis and transformation of realistic character animation.
• 1993·Carnegie Mellon University | M.S. in Computer Science
• 1991·Brown University | Sc.B. in Computer Science with Honors

• ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award (2004)
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2003–2004)
• NSF CAREER Award (2001–2006)

• Paul G. Allen School faculty profile
• Personal homepage
• Google Scholar

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