Scott Kircher
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I completed my Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2007. My dissertation advisor was Professor Michael Garland, who is actually now a researcher at nVidia. My thesis proposes new methods of dealing with deforming meshed surfaces as effectively as we can static geometry meshes. In particular I developed methods for simplifying, editing, and processing the motion of arbitrary animated mesh sequences (with fixed topology).

I am currently working in the Core Technology Group at Volition, Inc. as a rendering programmer and graphics researcher. I helped develop Volition's "inferred lighting" technology, as presented at SIGGRAPH 2009.

In 2003 I simultaneously received a BS and accelerated MS in Computer Science, and a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Physics from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. While there I spent three years working at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center building terrain & airspace visualization software and an ionospheric radio beam visualization program.

For more details about my educational and professional background you can check out my Curriculum Vitae, although it is currently out of date.