The CHCCS 2026 Early Career Researcher Award (Graphics) is presented to Dr. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri for his pioneering contributions to geometric modeling, digital fabrication, and generative 3D methods. The awards committee notes with distinction his impactful publication record in premier venues, including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and NeurIPS, his extensive international collaborations, as well as his deep roots in the GI community as a former Michael A. J. Sweeney Best Paper winner. This award recognizes his technical excellence, his commitment to educating the next generation of graphics researchers, and his burgeoning leadership as a world-class researcher in computer graphics.
Ali Mahdavi-Amiri is an Assistant Professor in the Simon Fraser University School of Computing Science and the Director of the Master of Science in Professional Computer Science program. He is also the Vice President of Research at MARZ VFX, a Canadian start-up focused on AI applications in visual effects. His research focuses on Computer Graphics, with specialties in Geometric Modeling, Digital Fabrication, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. His work has been published in leading venues including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, ACM Transactions on Graphics, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, and Computer Graphics Forum. His research has also been recognized through several prestigious awards, including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, J.B. Hyne Research Innovation Award, and Michael A. J. Sweeney Award.
