Research

  • Scalable illumination and rendering for high-complexity scenes
  • Perceptually-based rendering and modeling
  • 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
ACM SIGGRAPH '08

Visual Equivalence: An object-based approach to image quality
IS&T 16th Color Imaging Conference (CIC16) '08

Fast Agglomerative Clustering for Rendering
IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing (IRT) '08

Tensor Sampling for Rendering Many-Light Animations
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) '08

Scheduling Strategies for Optimistic Parallel Execution of Irregular Programs
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) '08

Single-pass Scalable Subsurface Rendering with Lightcuts
Eurographics '08

Dimensionality of Visual Complexity in Computer Graphics Scenes
SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI) '08

Optimistic Parallelism Benefits from Data Partitioning
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) '08

Advanced Global Illumination, 2nd edition
Publisher A. K. Peters
Complete List of Publications...

Professional Activities

Courses

  • CS 3410, Cornell's Systems Programming (Fall 08)
  • 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 (Spring 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)