David Salesin

A pioneer in computer graphics and digital arts, David Salesin now leads Adobe’s Creative Technologies Lab, where he is an Adobe Fellow. He is also a professor at University of Washington, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Earlier in his career, he worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar, where he contributed computer animation for the Academy Award-winning short film, “Tin Toy,” and the feature-length film, “Young Sherlock Holmes.” He holds 20 patents and is the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, among other honors.