My research and teaching are in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance of materials. I got my Ph.D. from Cornell in 1998, and held research positions at HP Laboratories, Microsoft Research, and Stanford University before I rejoined Cornell in 2002. I work part-time in the Real-Time Graphics Research group at NVIDIA Research.
Steve Marschner
Professor
Computer Science Department
Field of Applied Mathematics
Field of Eletrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean for Research
Recent publications
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Differentiable Neutron Transport
Xi Deng, Maosen Tang, Michael Czekanski, David Bindel, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2026
Toward Richer Material Generation via Procedural Data Enhancement
Yunchen Yu, Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren, Chris Cummings, Steve Marschner, Andrea Weidlich
SIGGRAPH 2026
Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks
Benedikt Bitterli, Petrik Clarberg, Chris Cummings, Aaron Lefohn, Steve Marschner, Jan Novák, Fabrice Rousselle, Andrea Weidlich, Tizian Zeltner
SIGGRAPH 2026
ArchSym: Detecting 3D-Grounded Architectural Symmetries in the Wild
Hanyu Chen, Ruojin Cai, Steve Marschner, Noah Snavely
CVPR 2026
Selfi: Self-improving Reconstruction Engine via 3D Geometric Feature Alignment
Youming Deng, Songyou Peng, Junyi Zhang, Kathryn Heal, Tiancheng Sun, John Flynn, Steve Marschner, Lucy Chai
CVPR 2026
Selected publications
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A wave optics based fiber scattering model
Mengqi (Mandy) Xia, Bruce Walter, Eric Michielssen, David Bindel, and Steve Marschner.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport
Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2012
Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level
Jonathan M. Kaldor, Doug L. James, and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2008
Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers
Stephen R. Marschner, Henrik Wann Jensen, Mike Cammarano, Steve Worley, and
Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2003
A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport
Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, and Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2001
Awards
2004: NSF CAREER Award
2004: Technical Achievement Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Recent Teaching
CS5625: Interactive Computer Graphics, Spring 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020
CS4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Spring 2017, 2018; Fall 2018, 2019
CS6630: Realistic Image Synthesis, Fall 2015
Funding
National Science Foundation
Autodesk; Google; Adobe
Professional activities
Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
Papers co-chair for EGSR 2008
SIGGRAPH papers committee 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002
CVPR program committee 2010, 2006, 2005, 2003
EGSR program committee 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006