The ACM SIGGRAPH Officer Selection Advisory Group (OSAG) provided their recommendations to the Executive Committee and the following directors were elected to serve as Chair and Treasurer–elect for 2024-2025. Their term as Chair and Treasurer will commence 1 September 2025.
- EC Chair-Elect: Darin Grant
- Treasurer-Elect: David Spoelstra
Introducing the 2024 – 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Officers
ACM SIGGRAPH would like to thank Mona Kasra and David Spoelstra for serving as the Chair and Treasurer for 2023 – 2024. Their leadership and guidance was invaluable.
Chair – Eakta Jain, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Jain is interested in the safety, privacy and security of data gathered for user modeling, particularly eye tracking data. She is advancing the EC Chair role in her third year on the EC. We look forward to her leadership in the governance of ACM SIGGRAPH.
Chair – elect – Darin Grant was elected by the EC to serve as Chair-Elect in the upcoming year. Darin’s wealth of experience and expertise as CTO of Animal Logic makes him an excellent addition to the EC. We look forward to the contributions Darin will make as his role on the EC and as Chair-Elect.
Treasurer – Brad Lawrence is the Imagery Engineering Lead at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He began his career in the Navy and went on to various Engineering duties for ITT and Texas Instruments before joining the Space Shuttle team in 1985. Brad was ACM SIGGRAPH Treasurer from 2018-2020 and was re-elected Treasurer in 2022, so he brings a wealth of experience to this position. We welcome his continued leadership in this area.
Treasurer – elect – David Spoelstrahas served in executive and senior engineering management roles responsible for multi-million-dollar budgets at both startups and Fortune 500 companies for the last 20 years. David got his start at SIGGRAPH as an early employee of Truevision. David was Treasurer last year, and has been reappointed to Treasurer-Elect.
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