- Department Head, Computer Science & Engineering
- Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
- Lynn '84 and Bill Crane '83 Department Head Chair
- Phone: 979-845-5820
- Email: schaefer@cse.tamu.edu
- Office: PETR 102E
- Website: Personal Website
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
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- 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).