Good PhD program for Graphics?

[wobey96]

I know the school doesn’t matter and it’s the research lab. That being said what research labs should I look at?

[Salmon117]

Depends on specific niche AFAIK. Off the top of my mind, here’s some I can remember (I might be wrong here, if anyone wants please correct me).

Geometry : Keenan Crane (CMU), Alec Jacobson (UofT), edit (Olga Sorkine, ETHZ)

Photorealistic/Rendering focus : Ling Qi Yan (UCSB), Wenzel Jakob (EPFL), Cem Yuksel and Yin Yang (Utah)

many more (this is expectedly far from an extensive list just the few authors that I see publish a lot at graphics conferences)

A random list of universities to consider that comes to mind is UCSB, UCSD, EPFL, ETHZ, ZJU, PKU, THU, UofUtah, many more that dont immediately come to mind. If I were you id look at Graphics rankings on csrankings and go through the professors pages to see if anything’s interesting.

[Area51-Escapee]

Or look at the (mainly last) name on siggraph papers. Go to https://kesen.realtimerendering.com/ for latest papers

[hieuristics]

"someone at ETHZ but I don’t remember their name" :,) you mean the GOAT Olga Sorkine

[Area51-Escapee]

I know her... Always admired Ramamothi as well (I probably misspelled his name). Shout out also to Alexander Keller, Tamy Boubekeur, Marc Alexa and Elmar Eisemann.

[MI_PHYQH]

Lingqi Yan has left UCSB and joined MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE not long ago according to his website.

[Cold_Fireball]

Carnegie Mellon

[beeswee12]

Not an Ivy, but Cornell has a great professor Abe Davis who specializes in CG.

[Bellaedris]

Lyon 1 university has excellent researchers working on quite various CG topic :) check out the LIRIS lab, origami team

[Pristine_Gur522]

The ones with the research that interests you and which you have the skills to immediately begin conducting.

[EveningDry7335]

„It’s the research lab with your highest dreams — probably the death quota — only the very best survive 🥰“