Assistant Engineer

Zhimin Ren

SN*** Sitterson Hall

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175

Email: ****@**.***.***

Homepage: http://cs.unc.edu/~zren/

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Ph. D., Computer Science 08/2007 05/2013 (expected)

Working on real-time physically-based sound synthesis, human-computer interaction on multi-touch

devices, and computer graphics

Advisor: Prof. Ming C. Lin

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

B. S., Computer Science and Technology 09/2003 - 06/2007

Graduated with Honors

Highest honors thesis: A Study on Scattering in Natural Phenomena

Mixed Class, Chu Kochen Honors College (top 5% at Zhejiang University)

Overall GPA: 3.75/4.0, major GPA: 3.88/4.0

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Assistant, GAMMA Group 08/2009 - Present

Human-computer interaction on multi-touch devices (tabletop and Android tablet) for virtual musical

instruments

Real-time physically-based sound synthesis

Teaching Assistant 08/2007 - 05/2009

For undergraduate courses: Introduction to Operating Systems, Internet Services and Protocols

For graduate level courses: Algorithm Analysis, Computer Graphics, and Physically-Based Modeling

Microsoft Research Asia

Research Intern 05/2012 - 08/2012

Research in human-computer interaction and worked on a Kinect-based project for 3D modeling.

Adobe (Advanced Technology Labs)

Research Intern 05/2011 - 08/2011

Studied user interaction with tablet devices and developed an iOS application that allows users to

intuitively create 3D shapes and, with a few strokes, decorate them with complex geometries (tens of

thousands of triangles) and patterns.

NVIDIA Corporation

Graphics Tool Engineer Intern 05/2009 - 08/2009, 05/2008 - 08/2008

Designed and developed a new and more robust user input handling layer for PerfHUD and the API

interception/capture layers for OpenGL and Cg for Parallel NSight.

Zhejiang University

Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG 06/2005 - 06/2007

Interactive rendering of multiple scattering in participating media with Direct3D and HLSL

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Languages: C/C++, Python, Matlab, Java (used for Android development)

Development experiences in: iOS, Android, OpenGL ES, OpenGL, Kinect

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Auditory Perception of Geometry-Invariant Material Properties

Zhimin Ren, Hengchin Yeh, Roberta Klatzky, and Ming C. Lin

Accepted and to appear in Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2013 and Special Issue of IEEE TVCG.

Example-Guided Physically-Based Modal Sound Synthesis

Zhimin Ren, Hengchin Yeh, and Ming C. Lin

Accepted and to appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) and SIGGRAPH 2013

AudioCloning: Extracting Material Fingerprints from Example Audio Recording

Hengchin Yeh, Zhimin Ren, and Ming C. Lin

SIGGRAPH 2012 Studio Talk

Tabletop Ensemble: Touch-Enabled Virtual Percussion Instruments

Zhimin Ren, Ravish Mehra, Jason Coposky, and Ming C. Lin,

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2012

Designing Virtual Instruments with Touch-Enabled Interfaces

Zhimin Ren, Ravish Mehra, Jason Coposky, and Ming C. Lin,

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2012, as Case Study

Synthesizing Contact Sounds between Textured Objects

Zhimin Ren, Hengchin Yeh, and Ming C. Lin,

IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2010

Real-Time Sound Synthesis for Rigid Bodies

Zhimin Ren, Ming C. Lin, Game Programming Gems 8, 2010

Fast Edge-Diffraction for Sound Propagation in Complex Virtual Environments

Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Zhimin Ren, Christian Lauterbach, and Dinesh Manocha,

EAA Symposium on Auralization 2009

AD-Frustum: Adaptive Frustum Tracing for Interactive Sound Propagation

Anish Chandak, Christian Lauterbach, Micah Taylor, Zhimin Ren, and Dinesh Manocha,

IEEE Visualization, 2008

Interactive Rendering of Multiple Scattering in Participating Media Using Separable Phase

Function

Zheng Gong, Zhimin Ren, Zhangye Wang, and Qunsheng Peng,

2nd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) 2007

REFERENCE

Available upon request

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