The RCDC@SIGGRAPH Advocacy team aims to promote graphics research in industry and other research communities. Goals of the team include the following:
- Promoting graphics to research funding agencies like the NSF, NSERC, and Horizon 2020
- Systematically nominating junior/mid-career community members for awards
- Bridging industry connections and facilitating tech transfer
- Promoting graphics research in the larger ACM community
- Maintaining speaker and expert databases
- Encouraging discussion on ethics, censorship, and accountability
Members of the Advocacy team are:
- Bilal Abbasi, Eidos Montréal
- Ilke Demir, Intel
- Marius Horga, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Achuta Kadambi, UCLA
- Dingzeyu Li, Adobe
- Craig Reynolds, Reynolds Engineering & Design