Kavita Bala

Projects

Mandala Project

Short Bio

Students

Adam Arbree
Milos Hasan
Ganesh Ramanarayanan
Edgar Velazquez-Armendariz

Funding

National Science Foundation
Intel Corporation
Equipment from NVidia

Kavita Bala

Ph.D. Elec. Eng. & Computer Science, MIT
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department and Program of Computer Graphics
Cornell University
Address: kb at cs dot cornell dot edu, 5142 Upson Hall [More]
Office Hours: Monday 2:45-3:45, Upson 5142

Research

Scalable graphics for high-complexity scenes
Perceptually-based rendering
Real-time global illumination
Feature-based graphics
Image-based rendering and texturing

Awards

NSF CAREER Award, 2007
James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, 2006
Affinito-Stewart Award, PCCW, 2005

Recent Publications

	Perception of Complex Aggregates SIGGRAPH '08
	Scheduling Strategies for Optimistic Parallel Execution of Irregular Programs SPAA '08
	Single-pass Scalable Subsurface Rendering with Lightcuts Eurographics '08
	Dimensionality of Visual Complexity in Computer Graphics Scenes SPIE HVEI '08
	Locality Optimizations for Optimistic Execution of Data-parallel Irregular Programs ASPLOS '08
	Advanced Global Illumination, 2nd edition Publisher A. K. Peters

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Professional Activities

Papers Co-chair, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2005
Papers Program Committees:
- 2008: SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics 08, Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D 08), Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 08), Pacific Graphics 08, Interactive Ray Tracing 08, Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 08
- 2007: SIGGRAPH 07, Symposium on Point-based Graphics (PBG 07), Pacific Graphics (PG 07), Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D 07)
- 2006: SIGGRAPH 06, Symposium on Point-based Graphics (PBG 06), Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 06), Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 06
- 2005: Symposium on Point-based Graphics PBG 05, Graphics Interface 05
- 2004: SIGGRAPH 04, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 04), Symposium on Point-based Graphics (PBG 04), Pacific Graphics 04
- 2003: SIGGRAPH 03, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 03)
- 2002: Eurographics Rendering Workshop EGWR 02
Steering Committee, Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 07
Posters Program Committee, SIGGRAPH 04

Courses

CS 316, Cornell's Systems Programming (Fall 07)
CS467/468, Cornell's Graphics II and Graphics Practicum (Spring 07, Spring 06, Spring 04)
CS665, Cornell's graduate advanced interactive graphics course (Fall 08, Fall 06, Fall 04, Fall 03)
ENGRG 150, Freshman advising (Fall 06)
CS 718, Computer Graphics Seminar (Spring 07, Fall 04, Fall 03, Spring 03)
Reusing Shading for Interactive Global Illumination (Game Developers Conference 04)
Advanced Global Illumination (SIGGRAPH 02, SIGGRAPH 01)
CS517, Cornell's graduate advanced graphics course (Fall 02, Fall 01)
CS417 and CS 418, Cornell's introductory graphics course and practicum (Spring 02, Spring 01, Spring 00)