Software Engineer Computer Science

Ivan Neulander

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Objective to design, implement, and support algorithms in a collaborative setting, with an em-

phasis on Computer Graphics and Rendering

Experience Principal Software Engineer, Rhythm & Hues 2002-present

I lead a team of four Software Engineers in charge of Rhythm s proprietary rendering

software. My activities are split between coding (65%) and coordinating with my team

and the user community (35%). Some of my notable recent contributions:

importance sampling strategies for global illumination, including support for area

lights, multiple importance sampling, and adaptive importance sampling

methods for e ciently rendering photorealistic hair and fur, particularly with

ray-traced radiance sampling and interactive image-based lighting

noise reduction techniques for irradiance-cached dipole-based (Jensen-Buhler)

multiple scattering approximation

a multithreaded 2 1 D motion blur processor, which has become our preferred

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method for motion-blurring heavy production renders; recently adapted to syn-

thesize alternate camera views for stereo productions

Software Engineer, Rhythm & Hues 1998-2002

I authored many incipient frameworks in our renderer, most of which are still in pro-

duction use. These include:

scanline hair rendering, based on the work from my Master s thesis

displacement mapping, using dynamic, view-adaptive tessellation

specialized texture-space rasterizer for rapidly generating high-resolution textures

with geometry-occluded irradiance or displaced shading normals

a scripted toolset for multiplatform building, testing, and deployment of Rhythm s

proprietary applications and code libraries, with cross-referenced release notes

Education Master of Science, University of Toronto 1995-1997

pursued Computer Graphics (Rendering) at the

Dynamic Graphics Project lab in the Department of Computer Science

Master s Thesis: Rendering Generalized Cylinders using the A-Bu er

Bachelor of Science (Honours), University of Toronto 1991-1995

Specialist Degree in Computer Science

Major in Mathematics, Minor in Philosophy

graduated with High Distinction, GPA 4.09

Academic NSERC postgraduate scholarship, Government of Canada 1995-1997

Awards prestigious National Scholarship, University of Toronto 1991-1995

Canada Scholarship, Government of Canada 1991-1995

Lieutenant-Governor s award for academic excellence 1995

St. Michael s College Academic Awards 1993-1994

Languages: C/C++, Perl, some Python and Java

Technical

Related tools: gdb, make les, pthreads, STL, valgrind, some OpenGL

Skills

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