Bedrich Benes (born Bedřich Beneš 10 November 1967) is an American-Czech computer scientist and a researcher in computer graphics.
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Academic positions
He is a professor and associate head of computer science at Purdue University. He was a member of numerous program committees of various conferences, including ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics and he was a papers chair of Eurographics 2017. Dr. Benes is editor-in-chief of Graphical Models journal and he was editor-in-chief of Computer Graphics Forum (2018–2021). He is associate editor of Computers & Graphics., IEEE Transactions on Games, and in Silico Plants. He worked at Purdue Computer Graphics Technology from 2005-2021, where he held a named professorship (George W. McNelly Professor of Technology in 2019-2021). He is known for his work in geometric modeling, procedural modeling, scientific visualization, and software optimizations in digital manufacturing.
Education
Benes received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Czech Technical University where he studied computer science and computer graphics and his M.S. degree in 1991 from the same institution in the same fields.
Honors and awards
2022 Eurographics Fellow
2020 Elsevier Computers & Graphics Associate Editor of the Year 2020
2019 - 2022 Purdue University George W. McNelly Professor of Technology
2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Senior Member
2018–2021 Computer Graphics Forum Editor in Chief
2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
2017 Eurographics Annual Conference - honorable mention from the Best Papers Committee for the paper " Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants"
2017 Eurographics Annual Conference Papers Chair
2012 Purdue University Outstanding Award in Discovery
2011 Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2011 Purdue University Outstanding Award in Discovery
2009 Purdue University Early Faculty Discovery Award
2005 Outstanding faculty award in discovery and technical development (Premio Rómulo Garza) of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Books
Jiří Žára, Bedřich Beneš, Jiří Sochor, Petr Felkel (1998) "Moderní počítačová grafika" (Computer press)
George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Song Wang, Kim Kyungnam, Bedrich Benes, Stephen DiVerdi, Kenneth Moreland, Chiang Yi-Jen, Christoph Borst and Jiang Ming editors (2006) "Advances in Visual Computing: 7th International Symposium", Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Selected works
Pauli, D., Huppenthal, B., Wang, D., Schnable, J., & Benes, B. (2026). Digital twins for plant and crop improvement. Trends in Plant Science.
Vazquez, J., Yang, S., Zhang, Y., Demieville, J., Huppenthal, B., Merchant, N., Popescu, V., Magana, A., Pauli, D., & Benes, B. (2026). VR BioTalk—Hands-Free Visual Analytics of Phenotyping Data Using Natural Conversation. IEEE Access, 14, 75577–75592.
Davis, J. M., Gaillard, M., Tross, M. C., Shrestha, N., Ostermann, I., Grove, R. J., Li, B., Benes, B., & Schnable, J. C. (2025). 3D Reconstruction Enables High-Throughput Phenotyping and Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Phyllotaxy. Plant Phenomics, 7(1), 100023.
Lee, J. J., Li, B., & Benes, B. (2024). Latent L-Systems: Transformer-Based Tree Generator. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 43(1).
Li, B., Klein, J., Michels, D. L., Pirk, S., Benes, B., & Palubicki, W. (2023). Rhizomorph: The Coordinated Function of Shoots and Roots. ACM Transaction on Graphics, 42(4).
Zhou, X., Li, B., Benes, B., Fei, S., & Pirk, S. (2023). DeepTree: Modeling Trees with Situated Latents. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 01, 1–14.
Niese, T., Pirk, S., Albrecht, M., Benes, B., & Deussen, O. (2022). Procedural Urban Forestry. ACM Transaction on Graphics, 41(2).
Li, B., Kałużny, J., Klein, J., Michels, D. L., Pałubicki, W., Benes, B., & Pirk, S. (2021). Learning to Reconstruct Botanical Trees from Single Images. ACM Transaction on Graphics, 40(6), 1–15.
Guo, J., Jiang, H., Benes, B., Deussen, O., Zhang, X., Lischinski, D., & Huang, H. (2020). Inverse Procedural Modeling of Branching Structures by Inferring L-Systems. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)