Greg Turk received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1992 from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a postdoctoral researcher at
Stanford University for two years. He currently holds the rank of Professor
at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the School of
Interactive Computing and the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center.
His research interests include computer graphics, biological simulation,
machine learning and scientific visualization. He was the Technical Papers
Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2008. In 2012 he received the Computer Graphics
Achievement Award from ACM SIGGRAPH for his contributions to the field of
computer graphics. In 2018, he was admitted to the SIGGRAPH Academy for his
research work in graphics.