Computer science PhD graduate wins 2021 Alain Fournier Award

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Ryan Goldade
Ryan Goldade, a recent PhD graduate fromt the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received the 2021 Alain Fournier Dissertation Award for his thesis titled “Efficient Liquid Animation: New discretizations for spatially adaptive liquid viscosity and reduced-model two-phase bubbles and inviscid liquids.”

This national award, conferred by the Canadian Human Computer Communication Society, recognizes an outstanding doctoral dissertation in computer graphics completed at a Canadian university. The annual award is named in honour of Alain Fournier, a researcher who promoted excellence in the theory and application of computer graphics.

Ryan was a PhD student in the Cheriton School of Computer Science’s Computer Graphics Lab from 2014 to 2021, and advised by Professor Christopher Batty.

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