Jernej Barbič

Jernej Barbič is a full professor of computer science at USC, working in the fields of computer graphics, simulation, computational mechanics, human body modeling, biomechanics, finite element method, numerical solution of partial differential equations, medical imaging, and other applications of applied mathematics to medicine, mechanical engineering and robotics. Jernej also has a side interest in philosophy at the intersection of AI, film and creative fields. In 2011, MIT Technology Review named Jernej as one of the Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35 in the world (TR35). In 2025, Jernej received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement (SciTech oscar) for his work on over 60 Hollywood films. He received his Ph.D. from CMU, and did postdoctoral research at MIT. Jernej is a NSF CAREER Award winner and a Sloan Research Fellow.

Research projects: Minimum requirement: undergraduate GPA at least 9.0 (Slovenian scale or equivalent). I am looking for star promising students, who aspire to academic careers in Slovenia or abroad. The following are a plus: former high school math / CS / physics olympiad members, winners of undergraduate research or thesis awards, co-authorship on peer-reviewed publications, strong programming portfolio (e.g., open-source projects).