• Department Head, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Lynn '84 and Bill Crane '83 Department Head Chair
Scott Schaefer

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Rice University – 2006
  • M.S., Computer Science, Rice University – 2003
  • B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, Trinity University – 2000

Research Interests

    • Computer graphics
    • Geometric modeling
    • Scientific visualization

Awards & Honors

  • Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow – 2015
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
  • Günter Enderle Award for best paper, Eurographics – 2011
  • Undergraduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University – 2010, 2011

Selected Publications

  • Manson, J. and Schaefer, S. Cardinality-Constrained Texture Filtering. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, 24% acceptance), Vol.32, No. 4, pp. 140:1-8 (2013).
  • Lei, H. and Schaefer, S. Mesh Denoising via L0 Minimization. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, 24% acceptance), Vol.32, No. 4, pp. 64:1-8 (2013).
  • Manson, J. and Schaefer, S. Wavelet Rasterization. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics, 17% acceptance), Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 395-404 (2011).
  • Singh, M. and Schaefer, S. Triangle Surfaces with Discrete Equivalence Classes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH , 26% acceptance), Vol.29, No. 4, pp. 46:1-7 (2010).
  • He, L., Hormann, K., and Schaefer, S. Parameterizing Subdivision Surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH , 26% acceptance), Vol.29, No. 4, pp. 120:1-6 (2010).
  • Yuksel, C., Schaefer, S., and Keyser, J. Hair Meshes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ASIA , 25% acceptance), Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 166:1-7 (2009).
  • Loop, C., Schaefer, S., Ni, T., and Castano, I. Approximating Subdivision Surfaces with Gregory Patches for Hardware Tessellation. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ASIA, 25% acceptance), Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 151:1-9 (2009).
  • Loop, C. and Schaefer, S. Approximating Catmull - Clark Subdivision Surfaces with Bicubic Patches. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 8:1-8:11 (2008).