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50 Years of Frontier Research, Education and Industry Collaboration in Computer Graphics, Physical Simulation, Machine Vision, and Virtual Reality
World-Class Faculty
- Members of National Academy of Sciences
- Members of National Academy of Engineering
- ACM, AAAS, IEEE, and Sloan Fellows
- ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Awardees
- ACM SIGGRAPH Technical Achievement Awardees
- IEEE VGTC Career Awardees in Virtual Reality
- IEEE VGTC Technical Achievement Awardee in Virtual Reality
- Marr Prize Winners
- NSF Career Awardees
Top Ranked Research Programs
- The Department’s speciality area of Graphics and
User Interaction holds the #1 rank since 2000*. - The consortium features more than 50 graduate students and 15 faculty
members. - Recent industry collaboration include Cisco, Google,
Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung and more. - U.S. News & World Report has ranked UNC-CH
among the top five best public universities.
Excellent Students
- Our graduates have received multiple Technical Achievement Awards in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Within the last 5 years, 2 of our Ph.D. students have received the Best Doctoral Dissertation Awards in Natural and Physical Sciences within the College of Arts and Science.
- Our graduates are leading researchers and engineers in industry, including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Disney, FaceBook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, Tesla, etc. and faculty members at top universities, such as UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, KAIST, MIT, Stanford, Texas A&M, Univ. of California, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Univ. of Virginia, Univ. of Utah, etc.