Image credit: Headshots of Mirela Ben Chen and Adam Bargteil by Vib Soundrarajah
In this episode of SIGGRAPH Spotlight, we pass the microphone to SIGGRAPH 2026 program chairs Mirela Ben Chen (Technical Papers) and Adam Bargteil (Technical Workshops) to discuss all-things technical. Mirela and Adam explore emerging technical topics in computer graphics and interactive techniques and how work showcased at SIGGRAPH can have a large-scale impact in industry, academia, society, and beyond. Plus, they share some insight into the SIGGRAPH 2026 submissions process, which opens soon.
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About Our Guests
Mirela Ben-Chen is a Professor at the Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing of the Computer Science Department, at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Ben-Chen is interested in computer graphics, geometry processing, discrete differential geometry, conformal geometry, and shape analysis and understanding. Ben-Chen’s specialties include computer graphics, digital geometry processing, surface parameterization, image deformation, conformal geometry, discrete differential geometry, shape analysis, and understanding.
Adam Bargteil is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the City of Bridges working in the Graphics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Before returning home to Maryland, he was an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah.
