Computer Science Assistant

QI MO

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Experience

Research Assistant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hi 08/2008 present

Built iSound, a GPU-based interactive sound propagation system

Co-wrote gProximity, a comprehensive collision detection and proximity query

package that runs on massively parallel architectures

Optimized and evaluated hybrid rasterization and ray tracing rendering paradigms

Researching algorithms and data structures that enable fast nonlinear ray tracing,

targeting outdoor large scale sound propagation in inhomogeneous medium as

application

Software Developer

Environment Protection Agency Office of Research and Develop 01/2012 present

Developed visualization system from scratch that interfaces with a comprehensive

solar radiation model, that handles large scale urban and GIS data with manipulation

toolset

Research Intern

NVIDIA Research 05/2008 08/2008, 05/2009 08/2009

Adapted GPU-based ray tracing engine for image space photon mapping techniques

that showcase latest hardware capability

Enabled large rendering performance gains for stereoscopic displays based on

perception science and driver engineering

Graphics Software Intern

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 05/2007 08/2007

Fixed bugs and performance issues for DirectX graphics driver

Research Assistant

University of Iowa 08/2006 05/2008

Accelerated global illumination effects, i.e. soft shadows with novel camera models

Patent

Jonathan Bakdash, Qi Mo, Doug Voorhies, David Luebke. "Accelerated Rendering

with Temporally Interleaved Details" (Filed June 26, 2009)

Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 08/2008 present

Ph.D. candidate GPA: * UNC

Graduate School Science and Technology Fellowship recipient

The University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA 08/2004 05/2008

Ph.D. candidate GPA: 3.92/4.0

Master in Computer Science, 2006

Nanjing University - Nanjing, China 09/2000 07/2004

B.S. Computer Science, 2004 GPA: 87/100

First Class National Scholarship recipient (top 1%)

Publications

Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Qi Mo, Christian Lauterbach, Carl Schissler, Dinesh

Manocha

"Guided Multiview Ray Tracing for Fast Auralization" IEEE Transactions on

Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2012

Christian Lauterbach, Qi Mo, Dinesh Manocha. "gProximity: Hierarchical GPU-based

Operations for Collision and Distance Queries" Eurographics 2010

Qi Mo, Chris Wyman. "Interactive Backprojected Soft Shadows with an Occlusion

Camera Shadow Map" ACM Siggraph 2007 Poster

Qi Mo, Voicu Popescu, Chris Wyman. "The Soft Shadow Occlusion Camera"

Pacific Graphics 2007

Services

Reviewer: SIGGRAPH 2012, TVCG 2012

Student Volunteer: SIGGRAPH 2005, 2006, 2007

* Instead of GPA, UNC has its own grading system for graduate students. Please see transcripts for

explanation of grades.

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