Presenter

Cem Yuksel is an associate professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, a senior scientist at Roblox Research, and the founder of Cyber Radiance LLC, a computer graphics software company. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University after receiving his PhD degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

His research interests are in computer graphics and related fields, including physically-based simulations, realistic image synthesis, rendering techniques, global illumination, sampling, GPU algorithms, graphics hardware, modeling complex geometries, knitted structures, and hair modeling, animation, and rendering.