Julie Dorsey is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Computer Science and the Deputy Dean for Faculty Development in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University. She came to Yale from MIT, where she held tenured appointments in both the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the School of Architecture. She received undergraduate degrees in architecture and graduate degrees in computer science from Cornell University. Her area of specialty is computer graphics; her research interests include photorealistic image synthesis, material and texture models, sketch-based modeling, and creative applications of AI. Her current and recent professional activities include service as the Editor-and-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics and membership on the editorial boards of Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, Computers and Graphics, and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. She has received several professional awards, including MIT’s Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, along with fellowships from the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard; she was winner of Microsoft's International Female Founders Competition. She is co-author of Digital Modeling of Material Appearance and the founder and chief scientist of Mental Canvas, a NYC-based software company that is developing a new type of interactive graphical media and a system to design this form of media.