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Biography
Kavita Bala (born 1971) is an Indian computer scientist and academic. She is a professor in computer science at Cornell University, and the chair of the computer science department.Her research expertise is in the area of computer vision and computer graphics using deep learning. Some of her work on cloud rendering is the core production engine in Autodesk's cloud renderer.
Education
She received a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology and Master of Science (S.M.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Bala is also the co-founder of Grokstyle, a graphics search company thatwas recently acquired by Facebook.She is an Associate editor ofACM Transactions on Graphics
Publications
Dutré, P., Bala, K., & Bekaert, P. (2006). Advanced global illumination. Wellesley, Mass: AK Peters
Recognition
She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to rendering and scene understanding".