Tomoyuki Nishita
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Tomoyuki Nishita (西田 友是 Nishita Tomoyuki?, b. 1949, Hiroshima, Japan) is a professor at The University of Tokyo. Dr. Nishita received Research Award on Computer Graphics from Information Processing Society of Japan in 1987, and also received The Steaven A. Coons Award from ACM SIGGRAPH in 2005.
He is one of the pioneers of Radiosity Method (also soft shadows). His research on Computer graphics includes lighting simulation， rendering, shading, natural phenomena, curved surface， Non-photo realistic rendering(NPR)， morphing, interactive rendering, and WebGraphics.
Nishita received his BE, ME and Ph.D in Engineering in 1971, 1973, and 1985, respectively, from Hiroshima University. He worked at Fukuyama University from 1979 to 1998. He was an associate researcher in the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University from 1988 to 1989. He has lectured at The University of Tokyo since 1994, and is a professor in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan since 1998.
He was a member of the Editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
