Solid Modeling Association

In 2019, the Solid Modeling Association (SMA) has introduced the title of SMA Fellow to recognize individuals with a distinguished record of research, accomplishment, and publication in areas of Solid Modeling and demonstrated support of the SMA through membership and participation in the Association, its meetings and activities. All recipients shall be members in good standing of the SMA.

Current SMA Fellows are:

Jorg Peters (Year 2024),

Ying He (Year 2024),

Wenping Wang (Bézier awardee, Year 2023),

Takashi Maekawa (Year 2023),

Bernard Mourrain (Year 2023),

Jiamin Zheng (Year 2023),

Hanan Samet (Year 2022),

Yongjie Jessica Zhang (Year 2021),

Satyandra Kumar Gupta (Year 2021),

Rida Farouki (Bézier awardee, Year 2021),

Ran Sriram (Year 2020),

Dinesh Manocha (Bézier awardee, Year 2020),

Tamal Dey (Year 2019),

Gershon Elber (Bézier awardee, Year 2019),

Stefanie Hahmann (Year 2019),

Shi-Min Hu (Year 2019),

Helmut Pottmann (Bézier awardee, Year 2018),

Nicholas M. Patrikalakis (Bézier awardee, Year 2016),

Vadim Shapiro (Bézier awardee, Year 2015),

Jarek Rossignac (Bézier awardee, Year 2014),

Thomas W. Sederberg (Bézier awardee, Year 2013),

Elaine Cohen (Bézier awardee, Year 2009),

Richard Riesenfeld (Bézier awardee, Year 2009),

Ari A.G. Requicha (Bézier awardee, Year 2007),

and Herbert Voelcker (Bézier awardee, Year 2007).

The list of current SMA Fellows is available at:

2025 SMA FELLOW STATUS: Nominations are due by April 30, 2025

Nomination Form and Timeline:

To nominate a candidate for the distinction of SMA Fellow, please fill in the nomination form (provided below) and change the file name for the completed form using the nominee name (e.g., “Fellow_nomination_John_Smith.pdf”) and send it by e-mail to the SMA Executive and Awards Committee Chairs. For the e-mail subject line, please use “SMA Fellow Nomination”. The e-mail should be sent from the e-mail account of the nominator.

Download nomination form (PDF), complete, and send via e-mail.
The information on this webpage can be downloaded here (PDF).

Please send your nominations or questions for SMA Fellows in 2025 to Ligang Liu (lgliu@ustc.edu.cn) and copy the SMA Chair, Michael Bartoň (mbarton@bcamath.org).

Every nominator can only nominate one candidate for each award. Self-nomination is not accepted. The current SMA EC members are not eligible for nominating or being nominated any SMA awards.

Each year, the nomination deadline and the emails of the chair of the SMA Award Committee will be announced via email to SMA members and will be posted on the SMA website.

Selection Process and Announcement:

Each year, the nominees will be selected from all the submitted applications via a vote of the SMA Fellow Award Committee. The chair of that committee will be appointed each year by the Chair of the SMA Executive Committee. The members of the committee will be appointed jointly by the Chairs of the SMA Executive and Awards Committees. The details of the nomination and voting process are left to the discretion of the Chair(s) of the Awards Committee. Each year, the list of people who received the SMA Fellow distinction will be announced at the SPM conference and will be posted on the SMA website, along with the suggested text for the announcement, the short bio, and the photo of each Fellow.