Steve Marschner is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he is conducting research in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance and behavior of materials. He obtained his Sc.B. from Brown University in 1993 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1998. He held research positions at Microsoft Research and Stanford University before joining Cornell in 2002. In 2010-11 he was a visiting professor at ETH Zürich.