Bedrich Benes
Bedrich Benes (born November 10, 1967) is a computer scientist and a researcher in computer graphics. Academic positions. He is a professor of computer science at Purdue University. He was a member of numerous program committees of various conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics and he was a papers chair of Eurographics 2017. He was editor in chief of "Computer Graphics Forum" (2018-2021). He is associate editor of "Computers & Graphics"., "IEEE Transactions on Games", and "In Silico Plants". He worked at Purdue Computer Graphics Technology from 2005-2021, where he held a named professorship (George W. McNelly  Professor of Technology in 2019-2021). He is known for his work in geometric modeling, procedural modeling, scientific visualization, and software optimizations in digital manufacturing. Education. Benes received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Czech Technical University where he studied computer science and computer graphics and his M.S. degree in 1991 from the same institution in the same fields.