[5] Since 2016, Terzopoulos has been Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of VoxelCloud, Inc., a multinational healthcare AI company with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai.

He has authored or co-authored more than 400 scientific publications,[8] including several volumes, spanning these fields,[9][10][11][12][13] 19 of which have been recognized with outstanding paper awards, and has delivered more than 500 invited talks worldwide about his research, among them well over 100 distinguished lectures and keynote/plenary addresses.

He pioneered the development of deformable models and their application to vision and graphics, as well as to related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design.

In the field of artificial life, his ground-breaking work combines biomechanics with theories of intelligence, including motor control, perception, behaviour, cognition and learning, to yield remarkably realistic computer simulations of humans and other animals.

He is famous for pioneering deformable models and for spearheading their application in vision and graphics, as well as in related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design.

[27] The Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) presented him with its Achievement Award (2023) for his "pioneering and sustained contributions to computer graphics over the course of nearly four decades".

[5] In 1973, Terzopoulos was awarded the Governor General's Academic Medal and Centennial Fund Scholarship by the High School of Montreal.