Computer science PhD graduate wins 2021 Alain Fournier Award

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.

Read more in the feature article on the computer science website.