Franc Solina

Franc Solina (born 31 July 1955) is a Slovenian computer scientist and university professor from Celje, Slovenia.

[2] His doctoral advisor was Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.

[8] Solina's superquadrics recovery method is used in many different disciplines, ranging from grasp and path planning in robotics to modelling the shape of body parts and organs in medicine.

[9] According to Google Scholar, citations of Solina's publications related to modelling with supequadrics exceeded in March 2020 the number 1700.

[19] Franc Solina became in 2018 a regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea) in Salzburg.