Dr. Alla Sheffer began her academic career at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Graduating in 1991, Sheffer earned a Bachelor's of Science, summa cum laude, in Math and Computer Science. After four years of military service in the Israeli Army, where Sheffer "spent four years doing a rather interesting programming job," she returned to the Hebrew University to complete a Master's degree with honours and a PhD in Computer Science. Sheffer's completion of her doctorate in 1999 was …showed first 75 words of 377 total…

…showed last 75 words of 377 total…ded design). Her current research, however, is primarily concerned with digital geometry processing (DGP). It is her goal to utilize DGP in a manner that will "generate, manipulate, and edit polygonal mesh models." According to Dr. Sheffer, this research involves developing algorithms that will, in essence, generate three-dimensional models. Dr. Sheffer is currently an associate professor at University of British Columbia, where she teaches courses such as Digital Geometry Processing and Introduction to Computer Graphics.