Students, Past and Present

Here are some of the students with whom I've had the pleasure of working. 

Past Ph.D. Students

• Daniel Aliaga, PhD, UNC, 1999, now at Princeton. Dan worked on image-based impostors to guarantee constant frame rate rendering.
• Mark Harris, PhD, UNC, 2003, now at NVIDIA in London.  Mark worked on simulation and rendering of clouds, as well as general purpose computing on graphics processors (see his gpgpu.org web site)
• Karl Hillesland, PhD, UNC, 2005, now at Electronic Arts in California
• Kok-Lim Low, PhD, UNC, 2006, now a professor at the National University of Singapore
• David McAllister, PhD, UNC, 2002, now at NVIDIA.  Dave worked on capture and representation of surface-varying BRDFs.
• Carl Mueller PhD, 2000, now at Nintendo. Carl researched the graphics architectures known as sort-first.
• Marc Olano, Ph.D., UNC, 1998, now at UMBC. Marc worked on programmable shaders for interactive graphics hardware.
• Voicu Popescu, Ph.D., UNC, 2001 now at Purdue University. Voicu worked on graphics architectures for image-based rendering.

Past M.S. Students (some with thesis)

• Paul Keller (M.S., UNC, 1996), now at NVIDIA.
• John Houde (M.S., Duke, 1990), went to MIT for a PhD.
• Sandra Dawson Miller (M.S., Duke, 1990).
• Meredith "Merry" L. Smith (M.S., Duke, 1991), at IBM.
• Nathaniel Williams (M.S., UNC, 2004), now traveling

Current Graduate Students

• Justin Hensley
• Chad Hantak
• Josh Steinhurst

Other Students

I didn't advise all of these folks, but I wrote papers with them or supervised their RA work. The list isn't exhaustive. I can't hope to list them all, but many others are on the Pixel-Planes project researchers page.

• Rui Bastos, almost a PhD, 1999.
• Jon Cohen, (PhD, UNC) now at Johns Hopkins.
• David Ellsworth (PhD, UNC), now at NASA Ames.
• Arthur Gregory, got his bachelor's degree, is now on staff here at UNC.
• Merlin Hughes, who worked on quadratic interpolation. Merlin had his own web business in Chapel Hill, but I haven't seen him for a while. Maybe he's back in Ireland.
• Heather Kerns, undergrad on Pixel-Planes project, went to IBM in Charlotte. Heather wrote the software for the joystick boxes that are in use all over the graphics lab.
• Subodh Kumar (PhD, UNC), now at Johns Hopkins.
• Jeff Mauldin. I worked with Jeff both as an undergrad at Duke and a grad student at UNC. Amazing!
• Jon Leech, now at SGI.
• Bryon Nordquist, now at SGI.
• Eddie Saxe, was an undergrad working on Pixel-Planes, now in California.
• Yulan Wang, who rendered that cool bowling image that we used to symbolize PixelFlow.
• Chris Wynn, now at NVIDIA.

Last modified Monday, May 29, 2006.

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