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Education

Master of Science, Computer Science.

University of California, Davis, September 2003.
Graduate GPA: 3.92
Master’s Thesis: SLIC - Scheduled Linear Image Compositing Algorithm for Parallel Volume Rendering.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering.

University of California, Davis, March 2002.
Graduated with Highest Honors
Undergraduate Cumulative GPA: 3.86 / 4.00
Undergraduate Major GPA: 3.95 / 4.00

Relevant Coursework - Graduate Level

• Computer Animation (prof. Nelson Max)
• Advanced Computer Graphics (prof. Kwan-Liu Ma)
• Principles of Virtual Reality (prof. Ken Joy, Falko Kuester)
• Advanced Visualization (prof. Bernd Hamann)
• Distributed Operating System Models (prof. Felix Wu)

Relevant Skills

• Programming Languages: C/C++/C#, Java, Pascal, 80x86 and MIPS Assembly Languages, Pixel & Vertex Shader languages.
• Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux.
• APIs: OpenGL, Direct3D, MPI, Win/MFC.
• Scientific Visualization skills: Isosurface generation, Volumetric Rendering, Particle Systems, NPR techniques.
• Tools: MS Visual Studio, P4, DevTrack, 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Dreamweaver, RoboHelp, and so on.
• Other: HTML/CSS, Java Servlets, Flash, SQL Databases, TCP/IP, Distributed Computing, UI Design.

Work Experience

• April 2014 - Present. Developer at Microsoft (HoloLens).
• August 2007 - December 2014. Freelancer with MAXON.
  • Designing and developing the built-in photo-realistic renderer within Cinema 4D.
  • Global Illumination.
  • Biased and unbiased rendering code.
  • REYES rendering.
  • Rendering natural phenomena.
  • IES lights.
  • Subsurface scattering.
  • Hair rendering.
  • Acceleration structures.
  • All the regular renderer work.
• June 2005 - Present. Freelancer with Pangolin.
  • Designing and developing a complete 3D Modeling and Animation solution customized for laser presentations.
• May 2004 - Present. Independent developer, founder of 4D Blue.
  
  • Company devoted to developing simple, yet complete 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software for small development companies and 3D graphics amateurs around the world.
• July 2003 - May 2004. Software Engineer. Electronic Arts - Maxis.
  • UI Design and implementation.
  • 3DS Max plugins maintance and enhancements.
  • Production tools design, implementation, and maintance.
• December 2000 – July 2003. Research Assistant. CIPIC - Visualization and Graphics Research Group. UC Davis.
  • Scientific Visualization – Isosurfaces, Volumetric Rendering, Particle Systems, NPR techniques.
  • Parallel techniques for volume rendering and image compositing (16 – 512 nodes)
  • Hardware Accelerated real-time volume rendering.
• July 2001 – September 2001. Microsoft Intern – Software Design Engineer in Test.
  • Implementing automated test suites for Direct3D.
  • Implementing D3D API call logger.

Publications

• Aleksander Stompel, Falko Kuester, and Ken Joy.
  “VUI - Towards Intuitive User Interface Design for Virtual Reality Environments”.
  Presented at the UC Davis Student Workshop for Computing, 2001.
• Aleksander Stompel, Eric Lum, and Kwan-Liu Ma.
  “Feature-Enhanced Visualization of Multidimensional, Multivariate Volume Data Using Non-photorealistic Rendering Techniques”.
  Presented at the UC Davis Student Workshop for Computing, 2002.
• Eric Lum, Aleksander Stompel, and Kwan-Liu Ma.
  “Motion-Based Shape Illustration”
  Presented at the SIGGRAPH 2002 Sketches and Applications.
• Aleksander Stompel, Eric Lum, and Kwan-Liu Ma.
  “Feature-Enhanced Visualization of Multidimensional, Multivariate Volume Data Using Non-photorealistic Rendering Techniques”.
  Proceedings of the Pacific Graphics 2002 Conference.
• Eric Lum, Aleksander Stompel, and Kwan-Liu Ma.
  “Kinetic Visualization”.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization 2002 Conference.
• Eric Lum, Aleksander Stompel, and Kwan-Liu Ma.
  “Kinetic Visualization” (extended version)
  Published in IEEE TVCG 2003.
• Aleksander Stompel, Kwan-Liu Ma, Eric Lum, J. Ahrens, and J. Patchett.
  “SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering”.
  Proceedings of Parallel Visualization and Graphics 2003 Conference.
• Aleksander Stompel, Kwan-Liu Ma, J. Bielak, O. Ghattas, and E. Kim.
  “Visualizing Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations”.
  Proceedings of the Supercomputing 2003 Conference.

© 2015 - Aleksander Stompel