Background Data

Present position: Professor

Faculty of Computer  and Information Sciences, Hosei University

3-7-2 Kajino-cho Koganei-shi

Tokyo 184-8584 Japan

Phone: +81-42-387-4537

Fax:     +81-42-387-4560

Email: vsavchen@k.hosei.ac.jp

I came to Hosei University from the University of Aizu (Japan) where I was a head of Shape Modeling Lab and undergraduate/graduate teacher. Before 1993 I was deputy director and head of Computational Mechanics Lab at the Scientific Institute of System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Up to 1987 I was senior research assistant at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences. 

Awards received

Bronze Prize Computer Graphics Grand Prix in STEC, Tokyo, Japan, 1996
Best WWW Award EUROGRAPHICS'96, Poitiers, 1996
Government order "Znak Pocheta", 1985
Government medal "Za Trudowoe Otlichie", 1975

Additional professional activities

Guest Editor, Special Issue on "The Shape Modeling" of  The  Visual Computer journal, A20977, V16(1), March, 2000
Co-chair of the Third  International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, Genova, Italy, 7-11, May, 2001
Co-chair of the Second International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, The University of Aizu, March 3-6, 1999, Japan
Co-chair of the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, The University of Aizu, March 3-6, 1997, Japan
Member of the organization committee, International Symposium 'Parallel Algorithms/Architecture and Synthesis, The University of Aizu, March 15-17, 1995,1997, Japan.
Reviewer for EUROGRAPHICS'95, 96 Conferences, Pacific Graphics'95 International Conference, Computer Graphics International'97, 98 conferences, for The  Visual Computer journal
Guest Editor, Special Issue on "The Shape Modeling: Parallelism, Interactivity and Applications" of International Journal of Shape Modeling, 2(4), Dec., 1996
Organizer of International Workshop " Shape Modeling: Parallelism, Interactivity and Applications, The University of Aizu, 13-15 September, 1994, Japan

Programming skills

Algol, Fortran, OCCAM, PVM, OpenGL, VRML, C, Java

Professional memberships

IEEE Computer Society