He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and, after working for a year at SRI International as a research engineer, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Curless received a university-wide Outstanding Teaching Award while at Stanford, has been nominated for Washington's university-wide teaching award, and has co-organized and co-taught courses on 3D Photography at CVPR and SIGGRAPH. His research interests span several areas of computer vision and graphics, with emphasis on capturing and modeling shape and appearance.