Patricio Simari is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. His main research interests are in geometry processing and the computational understanding of shape with applications to computer graphics, vision, health, and robotics.
He received his licentiate in computer science in 2001 from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Argentina and his MSc and PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From 2008 to 2013, Simari worked on postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins, Autodesk Research, and the University of Maryland, College Park, focusing on geometry processing and its applications, including cancer treatment and computer-aided design. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in the fall of 2021.