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It's not every day that a computer scientist wins an Oscar, but for one Yale associate professor, it's not his first red carpet appearance.
Theodore Kim won an Oscar this year at the Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony, which is usually held prior to the main event which was broadcast on March 12, along with David Eberle, Fernando de Goes, and Audrey Wong of Pixar Animation Studios, for the Fizt2 elastic simulation system.Fizt2 is an animation simulator for modeling the physical characteristics of soft material like fabric as it moves, according to aIt's not Kim's first Oscar win, either.
"When I got to college, at Cornell, I wanted to take computer graphics classes," Kim said. "Usually that is pushed off until later in the course sequence, but I was pretty keen to do it. I took it my sophomore year. They also had a graduate-level class, so I took that, too." "This sort of led me, accidentally, to my first film industry job," Kim continued. "I applied for a summer internship at the special effects studio Rhythm & Hues, and because I had taken a graduate-level class, they mistook me for a Ph.D. student. My work ended up in the first Harry Potter movie."
After getting his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Kim took some academic posts before becoming a senior research scientist at Pixar after his first oscar win. Kim eventually went on to join the faculty at Yale in 2019.
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