Computer Science Electrical

Rouslan Lyubomirov Dimitrov

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www.rdimitrov.info

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Practical Experience

**/**** - ******* **** ********* at NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, USA

Investigates architectural improvementsImplements raster operations in the GPU Performance simulator Analyzes and verifies system- and unit-level performanceImproved the Application Capture Environment (ACE)

Increased performance by ~2x and enabled studies of complex 3D and HPC tracesAdded coverage for Linux (x86, x64 and ARM)Automated trace capture and performance reporting

05/2009 - 10/2009

06/2007 - 12/2007

Applied Research (Devtech) Intern at NVIDIA Corp., London, UK

Invented rendering and simulation algorithms

View independent fluid rendering (PhysX + DX10) Screen-space Advection Foam (DX10)Horizon Split Ambient Occlusion (DX10) Scan-line Ambient Occlusion (CUDA)Defined and Implemented NV Particle APIInvestigated cascaded shadow maps on the NVIDIA Tesla architecture (OpenGL) Optimized the performance of Crysis and Terminator SalvationShared expertise in team discussions

06/2008 - 12/2008 rmapc - BSP map compiler for games

Open source tool for translation of analytic game worlds into efficient runtime formatRemoves hidden surfaces, precomputes visibility vectors and builds static collision trees Multithreaded and SSE optimized throughout

06/2006 - 08/2006

Research Intern at Max Planck Institute for Computer Graphics,

Saarbruecken, Germany

Created a mechanics simulation engineImplemented real-time pointlist reconstruction and image region detection

09/2005 - 06/2007

Electrical Engineering Teaching Assistant at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Gave tutorial classes, wrote and graded exams and homework, assisted in lab sessions Material covered: fundamental laws and transformations, properties and applications of components, circuit analysis, control theory and frequency space analysis

Education

10/2009 - 08/2010

Imperial College London, UK

M.Sc. in Visual Information ProcessingProjects: Brain Fiber Tractography: Tracing and Visualization and Portfolio Optimization with Profit PredictionCourses taken: Computer Vision, Advanced Graphics and Visualization, Parallel Algorithms, Simulation and Modelling, Probabilistic Inference, Advanced Databases, Advanced Computer Architecture and others

09/2004 - 06/2007

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electrical EngineeringThesis: Solid Environment Reconstruction on the GPUStrong emphasis on Mathematics and Physics (excelled in Multivariable Calculus, Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism)

09/1999 - 07/2004

American College of Sofia (secondary school), Bulgaria

Computer Science and Mathematics ProfileSenior Project: Virtual Reality Campus Tour System

Skills

Publications:

Simon Green, Rouslan Dimitrov, Miguel Sainz. Real-Time Particle-Based Liquid Simulation on the GPU. ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Live Real-Time Demo

Louis Bavoil, Miguel Sainz, Rouslan Dimitrov. Image-Space Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion. ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Talk

Rouslan Dimitrov, Louis Bavoil, Miguel Sainz. Horizon-Split Ambient Occlusion. I3D 2008 Poster

Gernot Ziegler, Rouslan Dimitrov, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel. Real-time quadtree analysis using HistoPyramids. IS&T/SPIE 2006

Programming:

C/C++, x86 (+ SIMD) assembly, OpenGL, GLSL, Direct3D, HLSL, CUDA

Win32 API, Posix, Linux Kernel, Networking Stack and Protocols

Hardware, Driver and BIOS (+ aftermarket modifications)

Experience with: HTML, Java, PHP, Perl, SQL

Hobbies:

Building electronic gadgets, tweaking Linux

Playing the piano, synth solos and composing music

Performing with the Peninsulaires barbershop chorus

Bodybuilding, Wing Chun, Swimming

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