Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and a principal investigator at CSAIL, has been named a recipient of the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Matusik, a member of the Computer Graphics Group at CSAIL, is currently focusing his research on direct digital manufacturing and computer graphics, in particular modeling and physical reproduction of materials, computational photography, and novel display systems.
Prior to joining MIT, Matusik worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems, and Disney Research Zurich.
The goal of the DARPA Young Faculty Award is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs, as well as DARPA’s program development process.
For more information on Matusik’s work, visit: http://people.csail.mit.edu/wojciech/.