Fredo Durand (he/him/his)

Background and Education

Frédo Durand is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received his PhD from Grenoble University, France, in 1999, supervised by Claude Puech and George Drettakis. From 1999 till 2002, he was a post-doc in the MIT Computer Graphics Group with Julie Dorsey.

He works both on synthetic image generation and computational photography, where new algorithms afford powerful image enhancement and the design of imaging system that can record richer information about a scene. His research interests span most aspects of picture generation and creation, from rendering to computational photography. He works on differentiable rendering, compilers for high-performance imaging, and video magnification

Awards and Honors

• Co-organized the first Symposium on Computational Photography and Video | 2005
• Co-organized first International Conference on Computational Photography | 2009
• Advisory board of the Image and Meaning 2 conference
• Inaugural Eurographics Young Researcher Award | 2004
• NSF CAREER award | 2005
• Inaugural Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship | 2005
• Sloan fellowship | 2006
• Spira award for distinguished teaching | 2007
• ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award | 2016
• He is on the scientific advisory board of Mercari, light.co, Shaper Tools