Eric Veach

Eric Veach is a Canadian computer scientist who won two technical Academy Awards.[1][2]

Eric Veach
NationalityCanadian
OccupationComputer scientist
Known forAcademy award winner, S2 geohashing.

He won his 2014 Academy Award for "foundational research on efficient Monte Carlo path tracing for image synthesis",[3] as applied to computer graphics, described in his 1997 PhD thesis.[1][4] He told CTV News he hadn't done any work in computer graphics for 15 years. Veach had worked at Pixar, and more recently he had been a senior developer at Google.[2]

His PhD thesis, Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, is highly cited.[4]

In 2008 the University of Waterloo, the institution where he earned his Bachelor of Mathematics in 1990, awarded him a J. W. Graham Medal, an annual award granted to a distinguished alumnus who had studied computer science there.[2] His PhD is from Stanford University.

Veach is a strong believer in environmental causes and serves as the chair of the Rainforest Trust board.[5]

Farhad Manjoo named Veach and two of his non-American colleagues, at Google, in an article entitled, "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants".[6] Manjoo's article attempted to explain why newly inaugurated President Donald Trump's attempts to squeeze off the flow of immigrants to the US was dangerous. He argued that America disproportionately benefits from allowing intellectual foreigners like Veach to find work.

Veach is the primary developer of Google's S2 geometry for geohashing.[7]

References
  1. Cassandra Szlarski (2014-02-21). "Canuck computer whiz nabs 2 Academy Awards for movie innovation". CTV News. Archived from the original on 2014-02-26.
  2. "Eric Veach: Distinguished Software Engineer, Google Inc., 2008 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal". University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2017-04-25. Prior to Google, Eric developed computer graphics software for Pixar Animation Studios (with credits in three movies).
  3. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2014-02-15). "The 86th Scientific & Technical Awards". Oscars.org.
  4. Eric Veach (December 1997). "Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation". Stanford University. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  5. "Dr. Eric Veach". Rainforest Trust. Retrieved 2017-04-25. As an early employee at Google, he led the development of the AdWords advertising platform and various components of Google Maps including the directions system.
  6. Farhad Manjoo (2017-02-08). "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants". The New York Times. San Francisco. p. B1. Retrieved 2017-04-25. If you want to understand why tech employees went to the mat against Mr. Trump's executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, you need to first understand the crucial role that America's relatively open immigration policies play in the tech business.
  7. "Overview".

Eric Veach at IMDb

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