UNC’s Doctoral Hooding Ceremony will feature keynote speaker Marc Levoy, who launched Google’s Street View project and helped create the field of computational photography.
The ceremony will be held at on May 12 at the Dean E. Smith Center.
Levoy also co-designed the Google book scanner and helped develop the cartoon animation system used in “The Flintstones” TV show.
He received his own doctoral degree from UNC in computer science in 1989 and then spent a year as a research assistant professor in the same department.
He is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford University to work on another Google project.