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David Henry Salesin (born 16 March 1961 in Cleveland) is an American computer scientist known for his work in computer graphics. He is the director of the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington in Seattle. He is noted for his pioneering work in non-photorealistic rendering.

Education and Career
Salesin received his Sc.B. degree (magna cum laude) from Brown University in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991. From 1983-87, he worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar, where he contributed computer animation for the Academy Award-winning short film, "Tin Toy," and the feature-length film, Young Sherlock Holmes. He spent the 1991-92 year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University. In 1996, he co-founded two companies, where he served as Chief Scientist: Inklination and Numinous Technologies. When the latter was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, he worked as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research until 2005, while remaining on the UW faculty. Over the years, he has also worked as a consultant to a number of production studios and research labs, including Sogitec Audiovisuel (in Paris), DEC Paris Research Lab, Aldus (now part of Adobe), Xerox PARC, and Broderbund.

Awards
Salesin received an NSF Young Investigator award in 1993; an ONR Young Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in 1995; the University of Washington Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in the College of Engineering in 1996; the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997; The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education 1998-1999 Washington Professor of the Year Award in 1998; and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2000 for his pioneering work in non-photorealistic rendering. He was named a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University and inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2002. He has served on numerous editorial boards and advisory committees, including the ACM Turing Award Committee since 2012.

Publications
Salesin has over 150 publications, including 44 technical papers in SIGGRAPH. Notable publications include: 1.	Fast multiresolution image querying, with C. E. Jacobs and A. Finkelstein. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95, in Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 277-286, August 1995. 2.	Wavelets for Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications, with E. Stollnitz and T. DeRose. Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 1996. ISBN 1-55860-375-1. 3.	Synthesizing realistic facial expressions from photographs, with F. Pighin, J. Hecker, D. Lischinski, and R. Szeliski. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98, in Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 75-84, July 1998. 4.	Image analogies, with A. Hertzmann, C. E. Jacobs, N. Oliver, and B. Curless. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, in Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 327-340, August 2001. 5.	Interactive digital photomontage, with A. Agarwala, M. Dontcheva, M. Agrawala, S. Drucker, A. Colburn, B. Curless, and M. Cohen. ACM Transactions on Graphics 23(3): 294-302, 2004.

Salesin was also one of the inventors of FoldIt, an online puzzle video game, credited with deciphering the crystal structure of an AIDS-causing monkey virus, as well as an improved, reengineered enzyme.

Artistic Contributions
Salesin’s photographs were published in “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom,” certified by Guinness World Records as the largest book in the world and published by Friendly Planet in December 2003. He also designed a Washington National Parks specialty license plate, whose proceeds support the Washington’s National Park Fund.