Henry Fuchs

Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948 in Tokaj, Hungary) is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He is also an adjunct professor in biomedical engineering.

For other people named Henry Fuchs, see Henry Fuchs (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Henry Fox (disambiguation).
Henry Fuchs
Fuchs speaking at NASA Langley in 2009
Born20 January 1948 (1948-01-20) (age 76)
Tokaj, Hungary
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Utah
AwardsFellow of the AAAS
Fellow of the ACM
Member of the NAE
ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award
Steven Anson Coons Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer scientist
Biomedical engineer
InstitutionsUNC
UT Dallas
Doctoral advisorRobert P. Plummer

His research interests are in computer graphics, particularly rendering algorithms, hardware, virtual environments, telepresence systems, and applications in medicine.

Fuchs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to computer graphics hardware and algorithms.

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