Pedro V. Sander

Birthplace Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Residence Hong Kong
  
Email psander 'at' cse.ust.hk
Web Page https://www.cse.ust.hk/~psander
Mailing Address Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Office Location Room 3504, Academic Building (near lifts 25-26)

Education

1999-2003 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
Harvard University
Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow (2000-2002)
  
1998-1999 Science Master (S.M.) in Computer Science
Harvard University
  
1994-1998 Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

Employment

2021-present Co-director of Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management
2020-present Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
2012-2020 Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
2006-2012 Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Joint appointment with the Department of Electrical and Computer and Engineering (2014-present).
  
2006 Staff Software Engineer
2003-2006 Senior Software Engineer
3D Application Research Group
ATI Research
ATI has since been aquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
  
Summer 2000, 2001, 2002 Research Intern
Microsoft Research
Member of the Graphics Research Group of the Redmond lab. Research in geometry processing.
  
1999-2003 Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant
Harvard University
Teaching fellow for undergraduate and graduate computer graphics courses; research assistant in computer graphics leading up to the dissertation.
  
Summer 1998 Software Design Engineer in Test Intern
Microsoft Corporation
Summer internship in Microsoft's DirectX team in Redmond.
  
1997-1998 Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant
Stony Brook University
Teaching assistant for an undergraduate computer graphics course; research in computer graphics.
  
Summer 1997 Systems Professional
Goldman Sachs, and Co.
System design and implementation at the Manhattan office.

Publications

 
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2023
Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander.
3D Video Loops from Asynchronous Input.
CVPR 2023.  
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2022
Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Xuan Wang, Qi Zhang, Jue Wang, Pedro V. Sander.
Neural Parameterization for Dynamic Human Head Editing.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 41(6), 236:1-236:15 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022).  
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Ryusuke Sugimoto, Mingming He, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander.
Water Simulation and Rendering from a Still Photograph.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 (Conference papers track).  
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Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Qi Zhang, Xuan Wang, Jue Wang, Pedro V. Sander.
Deblur-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry images.
CVPR 2022.  
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Weidan Xiong, Pengbo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, Ajay Joneja.
ShapeArchit: Shape-Inspired Architecture Design with Space Planning.
Computer-Aided Design (2022).  
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2021
Weidan Xiong, Chong Mo Cheung, Pedro V. Sander, Ajay Joneja.
Rationalizing Architectural Surfaces Based on Clustering of Joints.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2021).  
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Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander.
Let's See Clearly: Contaminant Artifact Removal for Moving Cameras.
CVPR 2021.  
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Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander.
Deep Sketch-Guided Cartoon Video Inbetweening.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2021).  
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2019
Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander.
Document Rectification and Illumination Correction using a Patch-based CNN.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(6), 168:1-168:11 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019).  
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Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, Jing Liao.
Blind Geometric Distortion Correction on Images Through Deep Learning.
CVPR 2019.  
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Bo Zhang, Mingming He, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander, Lu Yuan, Amine Bermak, Dong Chen.
Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization.
CVPR 2019.  
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Mingming He, Jing Liao, Dongdong Chen, Lu Yuan, Pedro V. Sander.
Progressive Color Transfer with Dense Semantic Correspondences.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(2), 13:1-13:16 (SIGGRAPH 2019 presentation).  
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2018
Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander, Lu Yuan.
Deep Examplar-Based Colorization.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(4), 47:1-47:16 (SIGGRAPH 2018).  
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Mingming He, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander, Hugues Hoppe.
Gigapixel Panorama Video Loops.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(1), 3:1-3:15 (SIGGRAPH 2018 presentation).  
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Bo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, C. Y. Tsui, Amine Bermak.
Microshift: An Efficient Image Compression Algorithm for Hardware.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2880227.  
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Ge Chen, Pedro V. Sander, Diego Nehab.
The Replate.
Proc. of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 1, 1, 4:1-4:14 (I3D 2018).  
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Songfang Han, Ge Chen, Diego Nehab, Pedro V. Sander.
In-Depth Buffers.
Proc. of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 1, 1, 2:1-2:14 (I3D 2018).  
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Weidan Xiong, Pengbo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, Ajay Joneja.
Shape-Inspired Architectural Design.
I3D 2018.  
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2017
Songfang Han, Pedro V. Sander.
Triangle Reordering for Efficient Rendering in Complex Scenes.
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques 6(3), 38-52 (2017).  
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Extended version of I3D 2015 paper.
  

Bo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, Amine Bermak.
Registration-Based Retargeted Image Quality Assessment.
ICASSP 2017, 1258-1262.  
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Bo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, Amine Bermak.
Gradient Magnitude Similarity Deviation on Multiple Scales for Color Image Quality Assessment.
ICASSP 2017, 1253-1257.  
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Editors:  Matthias Zwicker, Pedro V. Sander.
CGF Special Issue for Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2017.
Computer Graphics Forum 36(4). Helsinki, Finland (2017).  
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2016
Jing Liao, Diego Nehab, Hugues Hoppe, Pedro V. Sander.
New controls for combining images in correspondence.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22(7), 1875-1885 (2016).  
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Bo Zhang, Xiaopeng Zhong, Bo Wang, Pedro V. Sander, Amine Bermak.
Wide dynamic range PSD algorithms and their implementation for compressive imaging.
ISCAS 2016, 2727-2730.  
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Songfang Han, Pedro V. Sander.
Triangle Reordering for Reduced Overdraw in Animated Scenes.
I3D 2016, 23-27.  
C
  
2015
Editors:  John Keyser, Pedro V. Sander.
Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games.
ACM. San Francisco, USA (2017).  
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2014
Jing Liao, Rodolfo Lima, Diego Nehab, Hugues Hoppe, Pedro V. Sander.
Semi-Automated Video Morphing.
Computer Graphics Forum 33(4), 51-60 (EGSR 2014).  
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Jing Liao, Rodolfo Lima, Diego Nehab, Hugues Hoppe, Pedro V. Sander, Jinghui Yi.
Automating Image Morphing Using Structural Similarity on a Halfway Domain.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 33(5), 168:1-168:12 (SIGGRAPH 2014 presentation).  
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2012
Ge Chen, Pedro V. Sander, Diego Nehab, Lei Yang, Liang Hu.
Depth Pre-sorted Triangle Lists.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31(6), 160:1-160:9 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2012).  
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Selected as one of the "Notable computing books and articles -- 2012" by the ACM Computing Reviews.
  

Daniel Scherzer, Lei Yang, Oliver Mattausch, Diego Nehab, Pedro V. Sander, Michael Wimmer, Elmar Eisemann.
Temporal Coherence Methods in Real-Time Rendering.
Computer Graphics Forum 31(8), 2378-2408 (2012).  
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Extended version of Eurographics 2011 state of the art report.
  

Yutong Zhao, Fu Kit Sheong, Jian Sun, Pedro V. Sander, Xuhui Huang.
A Fast Parallel Clustering Algorithm for Molecular Simulation Trajectories.
Journal of Computational Chemistry 34, 95-104 (2012).  
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Editors:  Christoph Bregler, Pedro V. Sander, Michael Wimmer.
CGF Special Issue for Pacific Graphics 2012.
Computer Graphics Forum 31(7). Hong Kong, China (2012).  
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2011
Lei Yang, Kenneth Tse, Pedro V. Sander, Jason Lawrence, Diego Nehab, Hugues Hoppe, Clara L. Wilkins.
Image-based Bidirectional Scene Reprojection.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(6), 150:1-150:10 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2011).  
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Lei Yang, Pedro V. Sander, Jason Lawrence, Hugues Hoppe.
Antialiasing Recovery.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(3), 22:1-22:9 (SIGGRAPH 2011 presentation).  
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Daniel Scherzer, Lei Yang, Oliver Mattausch, Diego Nehab, Pedro V. Sander, Michael Wimmer, Elmar Eisemann.
A Survey on Temporal Coherence Methods in Real-Time Rendering.
Eurographics STARs 2011, 101-126.  
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Refereed publication with oral presentation at Eurographics.
  
2010
Hongwei Li, Li-Yi Wei, Pedro V. Sander, Chi-Wing Fu.
Anisotropic Blue Noise Sampling.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 29(6), 167:1-167:12 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2010).  
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Liang Hu, Pedro V. Sander, Hugues Hoppe.
Parallel View-Dependent Level of Detail Control.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16(5), 718-728 (2010).  
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Extended version of I3D 2009 paper.
  

Jingwan Lu, Pedro V. Sander, Adam Finkelstein.
Interactive Painterly Stylization of Images, Videos and 3D Animations.
I3D 2010, 127-134.  
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Hongwei Li, Diego Nehab, Li-Yi Wei, Pedro V. Sander, Chi-Wing Fu.
Fast capacity constrained Voronoi tessellation.
I3D 2010 Posters.  
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2009
Lei Yang, Diego Nehab, Pedro V. Sander, Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, Jason Lawrence, Hugues Hoppe.
Amortized Supersampling.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(5), 135:1-135:12 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2009).  
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Bingsheng He, Ke Yang, Rui Fang, M. Lu, Naga K. Govindaraju, Qiong Luo, Pedro V. Sander.
Relational Query Co-Processing on Graphics Processors.
ACM Transactions on Database Systems 34(4), 21:1-21:39 (2009).  
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Extended version of SIGMOD 2008 paper.
  

Ke Yang, Yinan Li, Qiong Luo, Pedro V. Sander, Jiaoying Shi.
I3DC: I3DC: Interactive Three-Dimensional Cubes.
ICDE 2009, 1475-1478.  
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Liang Hu, Pedro V. Sander, Hugues Hoppe.
Parallel View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes.
I3D 2009, 169-176.  
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Ke Yang, Bingsheng He, Qiong Luo, Pedro V. Sander, Jiaoying Shi.
Stack-Based Parallel Recursion on Graphics Processors.
PPOPP 2009, 299-300.  
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2008
Pedro V. Sander, Diego Nehab, Eden Chlamtac, Hugues Hoppe.
Efficient Traversal of Mesh Edges using Adjacency Primitives.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(5), 144:1-144:9 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008).  
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Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, Jason Lawrence, Lei Yang, Pedro V. Sander, Diego Nehab, Jiahe Xi.
Automated Reprojection-Based Pixel Shader Optimization.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(5), 127:1-127:11 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008).  
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Lei Yang, Pedro V. Sander, Jason Lawrence.
Geometry-Aware Framebuffer Level of Detail.
Computer Graphics Forum 27(4), 1183-1188 (EGSR 2008).  
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Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, Jason Lawrence, Lei Yang, Pedro V. Sander, Diego Nehab.
An Improved Shading Cache for Modern GPUs.
Graphics Hardware 2008, 95-101.  
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Bingsheng He, Ke Yang, Rui Fang, Mian Lu, Naga Govindaraju, Qiong Luo, Pedro Sander.
Relational Joins on Graphics Processors.
SIGMOD 2008, 511-524.  
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2007
Pedro V. Sander, Diego Nehab, Joshua Barczak.
Fast Triangle Reordering for Vertex Locality and Reduced Overdraw.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 26(3), 89:1,89:9 (SIGGRAPH 2007).  
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Diego Nehab, Pedro V. Sander, Jason Lawrence, Natasha Tatarchuk, John Isidoro.
Accelerating Real-Time Shading with Reverse Reprojection Caching.
Graphics Hardware 2007, 25-35.  
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Voted second best paper in conference.
  

Ke Yang, Bingsheng He, Rui Fang, Mian Lu, Naga Govindaraju, Qiong Luo, Pedro V. Sander, Jiaoying Shi.
In-Memory Grid Files on Graphics Processors.
DaMoN 2007, 5:1-5:7.  
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Christopher Oat, Pedro V. Sander.
Ambient Aperture Lighting.
I3D 2007, 61-64.  
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Rui Fang, Bingsheng He, Mian Lu, Ke Yang, Naga K. Govindaraju, Qiong Luo, Pedro V. Sander.
GPUQP: Query Co-Processing using Graphics Processors.
SIGMOD 2007 Demonstration Papers.  
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2006
Diego Nehab, Joshua Barczak, Pedro V. Sander.
Triangle Order Optimization for Graphics Hardware Computation Culling.
I3D 2006, 207-211.  
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Selected top three in conference; invited for a reprise talk at SIGGRAPH 2006.
  

Diego Nehab, Pedro V. Sander, John Isidoro.
The Real-Time Reprojection Cache.
SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches.  
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Full paper: "Accelerating Real-Time Shading with Reverse Reprojection Caching" in GH 2007.
  

Pedro V. Sander, John Isidoro.
Compressing and Managing Large Datasets for The Real-Time Parthenon Demo.
I3D 2006 Posters.  
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Pedro V. Sander, Natalya Tatarchuk, Jason L. Mitchell.
Explicit Early-Z Culling for Efficient Fluid Flow Simulation.
ShaderX5: Advanced Rendering Techniques, Charles River Media (2006).  
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2005
Pedro V. Sander, Jason L. Mitchell.
Progressive Buffers: View-dependent Geometry and Texture LOD Rendering.
SGP 2005, 129-138.  
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Pedro V. Sander, Natalya Tatarchuk, Jason L. Mitchell.
Early-Z Culling for Efficient Fluid Flow Simulation.
I3D 2005 Posters.  
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2004
Geetika Tewari, John Snyder, Pedro V. Sander, Steven J. Gortler, Hugues Hoppe.
Signal-Specialized Parametrization for Piecewise Linear Reconstruction.
SGP 2004, 57-66.  
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Pedro V. Sander, David Gosselin, Jason L. Mitchell.
Real-Time Skin Rendering in Graphics Hardware.
SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketches.  
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David Gosselin, Pedro V. Sander, Jason L. Mitchell.
Drawing a Crowd.
ShaderX3: Advanced Rendering With DirectX And OpenGL, Charles River Media (2004).  
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David Gosselin, Pedro V. Sander, Jason L. Mitchell.
Methods for Real-time Skin Rendering.
ShaderX3: Advanced Rendering With DirectX And OpenGL, Charles River Media (2004).  
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2003
Hector Briceño, Pedro V. Sander, Leonard McMillan, Steven J. Gortler, Hugues Hoppe.
Geometry Videos.
SCA 2003, 136-146.  
C
  

Pedro V. Sander, Zoë Wood, Steven J. Gortler, John Snyder, Hugues Hoppe.
Multi-Chart Geometry Images.
SGP 2003, 146-155.  
C
  

Danil Kirsanov, Pedro V. Sander, Steven J. Gortler..
Simple Silhouettes for Complex Surfaces.
SGP 2003, 102-106.  
C
  
2002
Pedro V. Sander, Steven J. Gortler, John Snyder, Hugues Hoppe.
Signal-Specialized Parametrization.
EGWR 2002, 87-100.  
C
  

Pedro V. Sander, Denis Peleshchuk, Barbara J. Grosz.
A Scalable, Distributed Algorithm for Efficient Task Allocation.
AAMAS 2002, 1191-1198.  
C
  
2001
Pedro V. Sander, John Snyder, Steven J. Gortler, Hugues Hoppe.
Texture Mapping Progressive Meshes.
SIGGRAPH 2001, 409-416.  
C
  

Pedro V. Sander, Hugues Hoppe, John Snyder, Steven J. Gortler.
Discontinuity Edge Overdraw.
I3D 2001, 167-174.  
C
  
2000
Pedro V. Sander, Xianfeng Gu, Steven J. Gortler, Hugues Hoppe, John Snyder.
Silhouette Clipping.
SIGGRAPH 2000, 327-334.  
C

Other Key Projects

Gigapixel Image
Urca 152GP (World Record for largest digital photograph, September 2010)
Panorama consisting of 152 billion pixels taken at the top of Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Taken in June and released in September of 2010. Collaboration with Rodolfo Lima, Diego Nehab, and Luiz Velho, from IMPA.
  

Corcovado 67GP (World Record for largest digital photograph, July 2010)
Panorama consisting of 67 billion pixels taken from the statue of Christ, The Redeemer, at the top of Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Taken in June and released in July of 2010. Collaboration with Rodolfo Lima, Diego Nehab, and Luiz Velho, from IMPA.
  
Technical Demo
ATI "Screen Space" Screensaver
This screensaver uses fluid flow simulation and parallax occlusion mapping techniques to showcase the ATI Radeon X1900 GPU. Lead programmer; with Daniel Szecket, Eli Turner, Dan Roeger, and Abe Wiley. December 2005-January 2006.
  

ATI "Parthenon" Real-Time Demo
This demo consists of rendering 15 million polygons, derived from a real-world laser capture of the actual Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Image based lighting techniques and a novel LOD algorithm are used to render this dataset in real-time on the Radeon X1800 graphics processor. Project lead; with Eli Turner, John Isidoro, Joshua Barczak, and Jason L. Mitchell. October 2004-October 2005.
  

ATI "Fluid Flow" Screensaver
This screensaver demonstrates the use of the ATI's graphics technology as a general purpose computation platform. The complex mathematical operations required to simulate fluid flow are all computed in real-time on the GPU. Project lead. August 2004-October 2004.
  

ATI "Ruby, the DoubleCross" Real-Time Demo
Through the use of motion captured animation, depth-of-field, realistic image based lighting and dynamic shadows; "DoubleCross" borrows heavily from both gaming and movie genres to create a compelling demo that further raises the expectations for real-time graphics. Shader programmer; with members of ATI's 3D Application Research Group. January 2004-July 2004. Appears on SIGGRAPH 2004 Animation Festival.

University Teaching

Spring 2022-23 COMP4451: Game Programming (L1)  
  
Fall 2022-23 COMP2011: Programming with C++ (L2)  
COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
  
Spring 2021-22 COMP4451: Game Programming (L1)  
  
Fall 2021-22 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
IIMP6010: Cross-disciplinary Research Methods I (L1 and L2)  Two sessions; co-taught with 6 instructors (lead instructor)
  
Spring 2020-21 COMP2011: Programming with C++ (L3)  
COMP4451: Game Programming (L1)  
  
Fall 2020-21 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
IIMP6010: Cross-disciplinary Research Methods I (L1 and L2)  Two sessions; co-taught with 4 instructors (lead instructor)
  
Spring 2019-20 COMP2011: Programming with C++ (L3)  
  
Fall 2019-20 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
  
Spring 2018-19 COMP4451: Game Programming (L1)  
  
Fall 2018-19 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java (L3)  
  
Fall 2017-18 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
  
Fall 2016-17 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP4451: Game Programming (L1)  
  
Spring 2015-16 COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java (L1)  
  
Fall 2015-16 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP2011: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology (L2)
  
Summer 2014-15 IELM4320: Design Thinking (L1)  1/8 load
  
Spring 2014-15 COMP4451: Game Programming (L1)  
  
Fall 2014-15 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
  
Fall 2013-14 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java (L2)  
  
Summer 2012-13 IELM4320: Design Thinking (L1)  1/8 load
  
Spring 2012-13 COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java (L1)  
  
Fall 2012-13 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java (L3)  
  
Spring 2011-12 CSIT5400: Computer Graphics (L2)  4 weeks
CSIT5400: Computer Graphics (L1)  4 weeks
COMP6411A: Real-Time Rendering (L1)  
  
Fall 2011-12 COMP5411: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP1004: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology (L1)
  
Spring 2010-11 CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L2)  4 weeks
CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L1)  4 weeks
  
Fall 2010-11 COMP541: Advanced Computer Graphics (L1)  1/2 load
COMP104: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology (L1)
  
Spring 2009-10 CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L2)  4 weeks
CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L1)  4 weeks
COMP341: Computer Graphics (L1)  
  
Fall 2009-10 COMP104: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology (L1)
  
Spring 2008-09 CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L2)  4 weeks
CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L1)  4 weeks
  
Fall 2008-09 COMP104: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology (L2)
  
Spring 2007-08 CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L2)  4 weeks
CSIT540: Computer Graphics (L1)  4 weeks
COMP641M: GPU Computation (L1)  
  
Fall 2007-08 COMP300D: Game Development (L1)  1/2 load
COMP104: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology (L2)
  
Spring 2006-07 COMP641M: GPU Computation (L1)  

Conference Teaching and Selected Invited Talks

2015 Computer Graphics: Closing the Gap on Reality
World Economic Forum 2015
Davos, Switzerland. January, 2015. 
  
2013 Metagraphics: Impact Papers from SIGGRAPH/TOG and their interconnections
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013
Tutorial course | one of two organizers/speakers 
  
2011 Techniques for Accelerating Real-Time Rendering
CSIAM Geometric Design and Computing 2011 keynote
Guangzhou, China. November, 2011. 
  
2008 Parallel Computing for Graphics: Beyond Programmable Shading
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
Full day course | one of many invited speakers 
  
2006 GPU Shading and Rendering
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006
Full day course | one of many invited speakers 
  
2005 Rendering Techniques for the ATI X1800 Demos
Korean Gaming Conference
Seoul, Korea. November, 2005. 
  
Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping
Korean Gaming Conference
Seoul, Korea. November, 2005. 
  
Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005
Full day course | one of many invited speakers 
  
2004 Rendering Techniques in Ruby: The DoubleCross
European Computer Trade Show

Conference Organization

2017 Papers Co-chair, EGSR
Helsinki, Finland
  
2015 Papers Co-chair, SIBGRAPI
Salvador, Brazil
  
Papers Co-chair, ACM I3D
San Francisco, USA
  
2014 General Co-chair, ACM I3D
San Francisco, USA
  
2012 Papers Co-chair, Pacific Graphics
Hong Kong
  
2011 Courses Chair and Conference Committee member, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
Hong Kong
  
Organization Co-chair and Finance Chair, IEEE Pacific Visualization
Hong Kong

Conference Commitees and Journal Editorial Boards

2020 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH
Papers Committee, EGSR
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
  
2019 Courses committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
Associate Editor (2019-present), TVCG
  
2018 Papers Committee, ACM I3D
  
2016 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH
  
2015 Papers Committee, EGSR
  
2014 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
Papers Committee, EGSR
Associate Editor (2014-2017), CGF
  
2013 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH
Real-Time Live Jury, ACM SIGGRAPH
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
Papers Committee, Symposium on Geometry Processing
  
2012 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
Papers Committee, Symposium on Geometry Processing
Papers Committee, Shape Modeling International
  
2011 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
Program Committee, Pacific Graphics
Program Committee, EGSR
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
Program Committee, IEEE SIBGRAPI
Papers Committee, Shape Modeling International
  
2010 Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH
Associate Editor (2010-present), GMOD
Program Committee, EGSR
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
Program Committee, Pacific Graphics
Papers Committee, Shape Modeling International
  
2009 Papers Committee and Session Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH
Program Committee, EGSR
Program Committee, Pacific Graphics
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
Program Committee, ISVC
  
2008 Program Committee, CASA
Program Committee, Pacific Graphics
Program Committee, IEEE SIBGRAPI
Program Committee, IEEE SMI
Papers Committee, ACM I3D
  
2007 Program Committee, IEEE SIBGRAPI
Program Committee, Pacific Graphics
  
2006 Program Committee, IEEE SIBGRAPI

University Committees and Administrative Roles

HKUST only (COMP = Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SENG = School of Engineering)
2022-present Member, Appointments and Substantion Committee (University; representing IPO)
Associate Coordinator and Member, Postgraduate Committee (COMP)
2021-present Member, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Studies Committee (University)
Member, Merit Salary Committee for Teaching-based TA/IA (COMP)
2020-present Member, SENG Committee for Prof. of Eng. Education Titles (SENG)
2017-present Member, Curriculum Committee (COMP)
2015-present Member, Water Sports Center Steering Committee (University)
2020-2022 Member, HKUST(GZ) Computational Media Arts Task Force (University; GZ campus)
2020-2021 Member, Substantiation and Promotion Committee (COMP)
Member, Teaching Faculty Appointments Committee (COMP)
2019-2020 Chair, Teaching Faculty Appointments Committee (COMP)
2015-2020 Member, Executive Committee (COMP)
2016-2019 UG Coordinator and Chair, Undergraduate Committee (COMP)
Member, Engineering Undergraduate Studies Committee (SENG)
2015-2016 UG Associate Coordinator and Member, Undergraduate Committee (COMP)
2011-2016 Coordinator, COSC Program (COMP)
2012-2013 Chair, Facilities Committee (COMP)
2006-2013 Member, Recruitment and Outreach Committee (COMP)
2009-2012 Member, Facilities Committee (COMP)
2006-2007 Member, Final Year Project Committee (COMP)

Advising

HKUST students unless otherwise noted (FP = Following position employer or graduate school enrolled)
Ph.D. Li Ma, 2019-present
Rui Hu, 2021-present (EMIA)
Xiaoyu Li, 2017-2021
Bo Zhang, 2015-2019 (co-advised by Amine Bermak; FP: Microsoft Research)
Weidan Xiong, 2014-2019 (co-advised by Ajay Joneja; FP: NTU Singapore)
Songfang Han, 2014-2019 (FP: UCSD RA, startup)
Mingming He, 2015-2018 (FP: USC postdoc)
Ge Chen, 2010-2017 (FP: J.P. Morgan)
Jing Liao, 2011-2015 (RGC HK Ph.D. Fellowship recipient; FP: Microsoft Research, Assistant Professor at City Univ of HK)
Lei Yang, 2007-2011 (FP: Bosch Research, NVidia)
Hongwei Li, 2008-2010 (co-advised by Philip Fu; FP: Microsoft)
  
M.Phil. Lingyi Feng, 2020-present (CMA; co-advised by Mingming Fan)
Samarth Uttam, 2021-2023 (ISD; co-advised by Ajay Joneja)
Yutong Zhao, 2019-2021 (co-advised by Ajay Joneja)
Zhaohua Li, 2012-2014
Yutong Zhao, 2011-2012
Kenneth Tse, 2008-2010 (FP: Mobile game developer in HK)
Xuxiang Lin, 2008-2010 (FP: Credit Suisse)
Liang Hu, 2006-2009 (FP: Google)
  
B.Sc. / B.Eng. Ryusuke Sugimoto, 2018-2019
Yue Yu, 2010-2011 (FP: Stanford)
Jingwan Lu, FYT 2008-2009 (FP: Princeton)
Alex Yau, FYT 2007-2008 (FP: HKUST)
Jiahe Xi, 2007 (on exchange from Zhejiang University; FP: Oxford)
Rui Fang, FYT 2006-2007 (co-advised by Qiong Luo)
  
ATI Research Intern Diego Nehab, Summer, 2005 (Ph.D. Princeton)
Joshua Barczak, Summer, 2005 (Ph.D. Maryland)

Student Committees

HKUST Computer Science students unless otherwise noted
Ph.D. Defense Mingfei Sun, 2020
Yao Yao, 2019
Lei Zhou, 2019
Yu Hong, 2019
Dongyu Liu, 2019
Weidan Xiong, 2019 (co-advisor; ECE department)
Songfang Han, 2019 (advisor; ECE department)
Mingming He, 2018 (advisor)
Yun Wang, 2018
Yong Wang, 2018
Runze Zhang, 2018
Qingkun Su, 2018
Siyu Zhu, 2017
Yanhong Wu, 2017
Ge Chen, 2017 (advisor)
Panagiotis Parchas, 2017
Wai King So, 2017
Thilina Weerasinghe, 2015 (IELM department)
Panpan Xu, 2014
Jing Liao, 2014 (advisor)
Conglei Shi, 2014
Xinagzhi Wei, 2013 (IELM department)
Lei Yang, 2011 (advisor)
Weichen Liu, 2011
Weiwei Cui, 2011
Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, 2011 (University of Virginia, USA)
Hongwei Li, 2010 (co-advisor)
Wai-Kong Law, 2010
Shu Liao, 2009
Liwei Guo, 2008 (ECE department)
Kin-Chung Au, 2007
  
Ph.D. Proposal Lei Li, 2020
Haipeng Zeng, 2020
Ziming Wu, 2020 (chairperson)
Mingmin Zhen, 2019
Zixin Luo, 2019 (chairperson)
Zhenjie Zhao, 2019
Mingfei Sun, 2019
Qiaomu Shen, 2019
Yao Yao, 2019
Lei Zhou, 2019 (chairperson)
Wenxiao Zhang, 2019
Mingming He, 2018 (advisor)
Quan Li, 2018 (chairperson)
Yongyi Lu, 2018
Qing Chen, 2018
Weidan Xiong, 2018 (co-advisor; ECE department)
Songfang Han, 2018 (advisor; ECE department)
Yong Wang, 2018 (chairperson)
Siwei Fu, 2018
Yun Wang, 2018 (chairperson)
Runze Zhang, 2018
Yanhong Wu, 2017
Yao Xiao, 2017
Siqi Bao, 2017
Siyu Zhu, 2017
Ge Chen, 2016 (advisor)
Jinglu Wang, 2016
Panagiotis Parchas, 2016
Jingbo Liu, 2015 (chairperson)
Thilina Weerasinghe, 2015 (IELM department)
Yun Wang, 2014 (chairperson)
Jing Liao, 2014 (advisor)
Peng Zhao, 2012 (chairperson)
Nan Cao, 2012 (chairperson)
Honghui Zhang, 2012
Lei Yang, 2011 (advisor)
Tian Fang, 2011
Weiwei Cui, 2011
Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, 2010 (University of Virginia, USA)
Hongwei Li, 2010 (co-advisor)
Wai-Kong Law, 2010
Shu Liao, 2009 (chairperson)
Yingcai Wu, 2009 (chairperson)
Mengyao Ma, 2008
Hongbo Fu, 2007
Kin-Chung Au, 2007 (chairperson)
  
Ph.D. Quals Zeyu Hu, 2020
Feng Han, 2020
Xuyang Bai, 2020
Pak Ming Fan, 2019 (chairperson)
Bing Yen Chang, 2019
Jingyan Liu, 2019
Chi Wing Mok, 2019 (chairperson)
Jiaxiang Shang, 2019
Jiaxiang Shang, 2019
Mingmin Zhen, 2019 (chairperson)
Zixin Luo, 2019
Tianwei Shen, 2019
Shiwei Li, 2019
Yongxiang Huang, 2019
Wenchao Li, 2018
Dong Sun, 2018 (chairperson)
Xinhuan Shu, 2018
Zengqiang Yan, 2018
Pei Wang, 2018
Ziming Wu, 2018 (chairperson)
Zhenjie Zhao, 2017
Qiaomu Shen, 2017 (chairperson)
Quan Li, 2017 (chairperson)
Lei Li, 2017 (chairperson)
Zhutian Chen, 2016
Mingming He, 2016 (supervisor)
Santawat Thanyadit, 2016 (chairperson)
Yun Wang, 2014 (chairperson)
Lu Lu, 2013 (chairperson)
Jinglu Wang, 2013
Liao Jing, 2013 (advisor)
Jingbo Liu, 2012 (chairperson)
Ge Chen, 2012 (advisor)
Chao Yang, 2012
Nan Cao, 2011
Zhexi Wang, 2011
Honghui Zhang, 2010
Youyi Zheng, 2009 (chairperson)
Tian Fang, 2008
Lei Yang, 2008 (advisor)
Hongwei Li, 2008 (co-advisor)
Liang Hu, 2008 (advisor)
Ming Yuen Chan, 2008
Wai-Kong Law, 2008 (chairperson)
Ka Lok Hung, 2008 (chairperson)
Weiwei Cui, 2007
  
M.Phil. Defense Haoan Feng, 2020
Nuoyuan Yan, 2020
Tony Wai Sum Ji, 2020 (chairperson)
Ziyu Wang, 2020
Shenlai Gao, 2020 (chairperson)
Hanyu Deng, 2019 (chairperson)
Aoyu Wu, 2019
Jianhui Zhang, 2019 (chairperson)
Abishek Puri, 2019 (chairperson)
Hammad Haleem, 2018 (chairperson)
Xuren Zhou, 2018
Dimitrios Tsakalidis, 2018 (chairperson)
Chung Yin leung, 2018
Sing Yu Siu, 2016 (chairperson)
Evan Hann, 2016
Baoxue Zhao, 2014 (chairperson)
Zhaohua Li, 2014 (advisor)
Yang Liu, 2014
Tian Han, 2013
Lu Chen, 2013 (chairperson)
Zhexi Wang, 2013 (chairperson)
Pengfei Xu, 2012
Jackson Yuen, 2011
Yuan Gao, 2011
He Liu, 2011
Chun Ki Tang, 2011
Xuxiang Lin, 2010 (advisor)
Kenneth Tse, 2010 (advisor)
Yi-Lun Tang, 2009
Ka-Kei Chung, 2009
Liang Hu, 2009 (advisor)
Lap-Fai Yu, 2009
Kai-Lung Chung, 2008
Wenqi Zhu, 2008
Jianwei Li, 2008 (chairperson)

Additional Information and Awards

Papers "Depth Pre-sorted Triangle Lists" was selected as one of the "Notable computing books and articles -- 2012" by the ACM Computing Reviews.
  
"Accelerating Real-Time Shading with Reverse Reprojection Caching" was voted second best paper in the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Graphics Hardware 2007.
  
"Triangle Order Optimization for Graphics Hardware Computation Culling" was selected top three in the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics 2006.
  
Fellowships Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2002 (covers tuition and monthly stipend)
  
Harvard University Scholarship, 1998-1999 (covers tuition and monthly stipend).
  
Programming Contests Second Place in the IBM Visual Java Challenge, hosted by ACM's 22nd International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, Atlanta, GA, February 1998 (team of four).
  
First Place in the 1997 ACM Greater New York Metropolitan Area Programming Contest, West Point, NY, November 1997 (team of three). Advanced to the World Finals from a field of over 1250 teams.
  
Miscellaneous Paul and May Chu Sportsman of the Year Award 2011-12, HKUST, October 2012.
  
President, elected by classmates, of junior high school graduation committee, Brasilia, Brazil, 1991.
  
Academic Lineage (data from Mathematics Genealogy Project):
http://home.cse.ust.hk/~psander/lineage/

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