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University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science 2008 - 2011
Advisor: Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen GPA: 3.97/4
Ph.D. Thesis: Controlling the Appearance of Specular Microstructures
M.Sc. in Computer Science 2006 - 2008
Advisor: Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen GPA: 3.97/4
M.Sc. Research Exam: Photorealistic Rendering of Human Hair Fibers
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering 2002 - 2006
Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Ghodsi GPA: 18.65/20
B.Sc. Thesis: Optimal Point Removal in Closed-2PM Labeling
Google Santa Monica, CA
Work
Software Engineer 2011 - Now
Experience
Working with Todd Bogdan in the Photos team.
Industrial Light & Magic San Francisco, CA
R&D Intern Summer 2010
Worked with Olivier Maury on E cient Hair Occlusion under Image Based Lighting. The results
will be used in production of upcoming features from ILM.
Walt Disney Animation Studios Burbank, CA
R&D Graduate Associate Summers of 2008 & 2009
Worked with Rasmus Tamstorf, Heather Pritchett, and Lewis Siegel on developing a proprietary
physically-based and artist-friendly hair shader in RenderMan. Our shader has been used in the
production of the movie Tangled.
VISGroup, CISA3, Calit2 La Jolla, CA
Graduate Researcher and Developer Aug 2007 - Mar 2008
Worked on the visualization for the Search for Battle of Anghiari project.
Immersive Visualization Lab, Calit2 La Jolla, CA
Graphics Developer Summer 2007
Worked on the ATLAS in Silico project, an art installation presented in SIGGRAPH 2007.
Walt Disney Animation Studios Fellowship Spring 2008
Fellowships
Chancellors Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Fellowship Winter 2008
Awarded from Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture & Archaeology
CalRA Fellowship 2006 - 2007
Awarded form Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
Erd s-Bacon Number 6: Erd s Number 4 and Bacon Number 2
o o 2010
Awards
& Honors
Grand Prize in UC San Diego Rendering Competition 2007 Jun 2007
Ranked 1st in Cumulative GPA 2002 - 2006
Class of 2002, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology
Tangled 2010
Movie
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Credits
A Practical Microcylinder Appearance Model for Cloth Rendering 2011
Publications
Iman Sadeghi, Oleg Bisker, Joachim De Deken, Henrik Wann Jensen Conditionally Accepted
to ACM Transactions on Graphics.
Physically-Based Simulation of Rainbows 2011
Iman Sadeghi, Adolfo Munoz, Philip Laven, Wojciech Jarosz, Francisco Seron, Diego Gutierrez,
and Henrik Wann Jensen. Accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics 31(1).
Analysis and Design of Monolithic Resistors with Desired Temp. Coe cient 2011
Nima Sadeghi, Iman Sadeghi, and Shahriar Mirabbasi. Submitted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits, 2011.
A Comp. Theory of Volumetric Radiance Estimation using Points & Beams 2011
Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Iman Sadeghi, Henrik Wann Jensen. ACM Transactions
On Graphics 30(1).
An Artist Friendly Hair Shading System 2010
Iman Sadeghi, Heather Pritchett, Henrik Wann Jensen, Rasmus Tamstorf. ACM Transactions
on Graphics 29(4), SIGGRAPH.
E cient Implementation of Dual Scattering Model in RenderMan 2010
Iman Sadeghi, Rasmus Tamstorf. Disney Technical Reports.
Coherent Path Tracing 2009
Iman Sadeghi, Bin Chen, Henrik Wann Jensen. Journal of Graphics, GPU, & Game Tools 14(2)
Optimal Point Removal in Closed-2PM Labeling 2008
Farshad Rostamabadi, Iman Sadeghi, Mohammad Ghodsi, Ramtin Khosravi. Information Pro-
cessing Letters, Elsevier, 105(3).
System and Method for Artist Friendly Controls for Hair Shading 2010
Patents
Iman Sadeghi, Charles T. Tappan, and Rasmus Tamstorf
US Patent Pending
Computer Programming:
Technical
Pro cient in C++, Java, OpenGL, Pascal.
Skills
Experienced in C#, J#, Delphi, Prolog, Python.
Experienced in Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) particularly in Raytracing context.
Familiar with Socket Programming, MPI Programming, L TEX, MySQL, Python.
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Computer Graphics Tools/Software:
Pro cient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere.
Experienced in Maya, Mel Script, MentalRay, PhotoRealistic RenderMan (PRMan).
Experienced in Renderman Shading Language (RSL).
Web Design:
Pro cient in PHP, HTML, CSS.
Familiar with Ajax, and Java Script.
Operating Systems:
Experienced in Linux, Windows, and Mac operating systems.
Drawing & Sculpting:
Artistic
Experienced in Drawing, Sketching, Caricaturing and Sculpting.
Skills