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# Thomas Funkhouser

Title/Position
David M. Siegel Professor of Computer Science
Degree
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Homepage
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~funk

## Research

Interests: Computer graphics and computer vision.
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, 2014.

Research Areas:

- Machine Learning
- Vision & Graphics

## Short Bio

Thomas Funkhouser joined the department in 1998 as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 2003 and a full professor in 2009. Before coming to Princeton, he worked for four years on the technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley (1993), a Master’s in computer science from UCLA, and a Bachelor’s in biological sciences from Stanford. Among Professor Funkhouser’s honors and awards are the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2014), Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1999), and National Science Foundation Career Award (2000).

## Selected Publications

- Tianqiang Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, Wilmot Li, and Thomas Funkhouser,Style Compatibility for 3D Furniture Models,ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2015.
- Fu Yu, Jianxiong Xiao, and Thomas Funkhouser,Semantic Alignment of City-Scale LiDAR Data,IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (Proc. CVPR), 2015.
- Tianqiang Liu, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Vladimir G. Kim, Qi-Xing Huang, Niloy J. Mitra, and Thomas Funkhouser,Creating Consistent Scene Graphs Using a Probabilistic Grammar, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), December 2014.
- Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Leonidas Guibas, and Thomas Funkhouser.Shape2Pose: Human-Centric Shape Analysis, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2014.

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