News Releases from 2019
July 23, 2019
Zexiang Xu Wins Doctoral Research Award
Congratulations to Zexiang Xu for winning the UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department's Doctoral Award for Excellence in Research. His doctoral research, under the supervision of Ravi Ramamoorthi, is focused on sparse sampling for appearance acquisition and rendering.
May 29, 2019
SIGGRAPH Awards Recognize Computer Science Researchers
Ravi Ramoorthi has been inducted into the SIGGRAPH Academy for his groundbreaking theoretical work in mathematical representations of visual appearance, and for translating these into computational methods with wide practical impact. Two additional VisComp-affiliated researchers also received SIGGRAPH Awards recognition.
April 19, 2019
Computer Science PhD student earns 2019 Google PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to UC San Diego computer science PhD student Tiancheng (Kevin) Sun, who has been awarded a 2019 Google PhD Fellowship.
January 2, 2019
Lifan Wu named 2019 NVIDIA Fellow
UC San Diego computer science PhD student Lifan Wu has been awarded a 2019 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. Lifan Wu is advised by Ravi Ramamoorthi. Wu's research interests include physically based rendering, including sparse sampling and reconstruction of visual signals, realistic appearance modeling, and light transport.