+ I won the Qualcomm Innovator Challenge Competition for implementing the best social networking widget! Our team implemented iQ widget in Plaza platform in only 36 hours! January 2009.

Click for a photograph of iQ team at the award ceremony!

+ My rendering is printed as the front cover image of Optics and Photonics News magazine. January 2009.

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+ During my internship at WDAS I implemented a hair shader which will be used in Rapunzel and probably many other movies! September 2008.

+ I am working as a R&D Graduate Associate in Technology Department of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, CA. June 2008.

+ Check out the results of UCSD Rendering Competition 2008 in which I was one of the judges. June 2008.

+ I got my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science! Checkout my Research Exam report and my Photorealistic Rendering of Human Hair project page. May 2008.

+ My 3D Visualization project "Virtual Palazzo Vecchio" has been shown in Lost Leonardo documentary by CBS News Magazine, "60 Minutes", on April 20th, 2008.

+ I have been awarded Walt Disney Animation Studios Fellowship for Spring 2008 quarter. March 2008.

+ Check my VTK projects: Visualizing Curvature and Bilateral Denoise Filter. I did these projects for CSE 291 3D Geometry Processing taught by Prof. Matthias Zwicker. March 2008.

+ I have been awarded Chancellors Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Fellowship for working with Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), CalIt2, UC San Diego and developing my visualization project: Virtual Palazzo Vecchio as part of Search for Battle of Anghiari project. January 2008.

+ Check out my "Rendering Morpho Butterflies Realistically" Project as the final project of CSE 272 Advanced Appearance Modeling course taught by Prof. Henrik Wann Jensen. December 2007.

I was invited to have a talk about my project on this fantastic conference:
Iridescence: more than meets the eye
Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. February 2008.

+ I won a free 4GB Flash Drive in the TopCoder CollegeTour programming competition! December 2007.

+ Check out my Bi Directional Path Tracing Project page for CSE 272 Advanced Appearance Modeling course taught by Prof. Henrik Wann Jensen. November 2007.

+ Check out my Soap Bubbles Project page for CSE 272 Advanced Appearance Modeling course taught by Prof. Henrik Wann Jensen. November 2007.

+ I won the First Prize and a free iPod nano in the logo design contest for the The Open Protein Structure Annotation Network website. October 2007.

+ My Final Project for CSE 168 Rendering Algorithms course taught by Prof. Henrik Wann Jensen, which won the Grand Prize of UCSD's Rendering Competition 2007. June 2007.

  > Read "Butterfly Beats Kitchen!" article from the UCSD News Page about Rendering Competition 2007.
  > Read "A Butterfly Takes Flight at UCSD Computer Graphics Competition" article from Calit2 News.
 > Read "A+ for C++ Butterfly!" article from Pulse Newsletter about my project.

 

+ I have been awarded CalRA Fellowship form Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego and admitted to the competitive Computer Science & Engineering PhD program at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. September 2006.