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Gordon Wetzstein
Research Scientist
MIT Media Lab

75 Amherst St, E14-474C
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

phone: 617.715.4683
email: gordonw (at) media (dot) mit (dot) edu

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As of July 2014, this site is no longer updated. I am now an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, please visit my website there.




Education and Experience


starting 09/14 Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, Stanford CA, USA.

10/13 - 08/14 Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge MA, USA.

10/11 - 09/13 Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge MA, USA.
Funded by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) and the DARPA SCENICC program.

09/06 - 09/11 Doctor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

10/00 - 06/06 Diplom, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany (summa cum laude)




Publications


in print R. Prevedel, Y-G Yoon, M. Hoffmann, N. Pak, G. Wetzstein, S. Kato, T. Schrödel, R. Raskar, M. Zimmer, E. Boyden, A. Vaziri "Simultaneous whole-animal 3D-imaging of neuronal activity using light-field microscopy", Nature Methods, accepted for publication

G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Computational Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), accepted for publication

D. Wu, G. Wetzstein, C. Barsi, T. Willwacher, Q. Dai, R. Raskar "Ultra-fast Lensless Computational Imaging through 5D Frequency Analysis of Time-resolved Light Transport", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), accepted for publication


2014 F.C. Huang, G. Wetzstein, B. Barsky, R. Raskar "Eyeglasses-free Display: Towards Correcting Visual Aberrations with Computational Light Field Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2014

M. Hirsch*, G. Wetzstein*, R. Raskar "A Compressive Light Field Projection System", (* joint first authors), ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2014

C. Ma, X. Ling, J. Suo, Q. Dai, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "Transparent Object Reconstruction via Coded Transport of Intensity", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral) 2014

F. Heide, J. Gregson, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar, W. Heidrich "Compressive multi-mode superresolution display", OSA Optics Express 2014

M. Hirsch, S. Jayasuriya, S. Sivaranakrishnan, A. Wang, A. Molnar, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "A Switchable Light Field Camera Architecture with Angle Sensitive Pixels and Dictionary-based Sparse Coding", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2014. Best Paper Award!

X. Ling, G. Wetzstein, Y. Liu, Q. Dai "Dual-coded Compressive Hyper-spectral Imaging", OSA Optics Letters (Journal), 39 (7)

A. Maimone, R. Chen, H. Fuchs, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "Wide-Field-of-View Compressive Light-Field Display Using a Multilayered Architecture and Viewer Tracking", Society for Information Displays SID Digest 2014

H. Ikoma, B. Heshmat, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Nonlinear Fluorescence Spectra Unmixing", OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2014


2013 K. Marwah, G. Wetzstein, Y. Bando, R. Raskar "Compressive Light Field Photography using Overcomplete Dictionaries and Optimized Projections", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013

F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar, W. Heidrich "Adaptive Image Synthesis for Compressive Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013

A. Maimone, G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar, H. Fuchs "Focus 3D: Compressive Accommodation Display", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Journal), 32 (5), 2013

G. Wetzstein, I. Ihrke, W. Heidrich "On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 384-400

B. Masia, G. Wetzstein, P. Didyk, D. Gutierrez "A survey on computational displays: Pushing the boundaries of optics, computation, and perception", Computer & Graphics (Journal), 37 (8)

B. Masia, G.Wetzstein, C. Aliaga, R. Raskar, D. Gutierrez "Display Adaptive 3D Content Remapping", Computer & Graphics (Journal), Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 983–996

C. Ma, J. Suo, Q. Dai, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "High-rank Coded Aperture Projection for Extended Depth of Field", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2013

X. Lin, J. Suo, G. Wetzstein, Q. Dai, R. Raskar "Coded Focal Stack Photography", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2013

A. Kadambi, H. Ikoma, X. Lin, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Subsurface Enhancement through Sparse Representations of Multispectral Direct/Global Decomposition, OSA International Conference on Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) 2013

Huang, F-C., Wetzstein, G., Barsky, B., Raskar, R. "Computational Light Field Display for Correcting Visual Aberrations", ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Poster


2012 G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar "Tensor Displays: Compressive Light Field Display using Multilayer Displays with Directional Backlighting", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2012. SIGGRAPH 2012 Paper Highlight, Emerging Technologies Highlight, and featured in New Scientist, The Boston Globe, engadget, slashdot, and many more!

G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Compressive Light Field Displays", Computer Graphics & Applications, Volume 32, Number 5, 2012

D. Wu, G. Wetzstein, C. Barsi, T. Willwacher, M. O'Toole, N. Naik, Q. Dai, K. Kutulakos, R. Raskar " Frequency Analysis of Transient Light Transport with Applications in Bare Sensor Imaging", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2012

G. Wetzstein, I. Ihrke, D. Lanman, W. Heidrich, K. Akeley, R. Raskar "Computational Plenoptic Imaging", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course

G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, D. Gutierrez, M. Hirsch "Computational Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course. SIGGRAPH 2012 Courses Highlight!

A. Arpa, G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, R. Raskar "Single Lens Off-Chip Cellphone Microscopy", IEEE Int. Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS) 2012. Best Paper Honorable Mention!

G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar "Real-time Image Generation for Compressive Light Field Displays", OSA Int. Symposium on Display Holography 2012

D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, M. Hirsch, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Beyond Parallax Barriers: Applying Formal Optimization Methods to Multi-Layer Automultiscopic Displays", SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIII 2012

E. Iffa, G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich "Light Field Optical Flow for Refractive Surface Reconstruction" SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXV 2012

Lanman, D., Wetzstein, G., Hirsch, M., Raskar, R. "Depth of Field Analysis for Multilayer Automultiscopic Displays", OSA Int. Symposium on Display Holography 2012

Hirsch, M., Lanman, D., Wetzstein, G., Raskar, R. "Construction and Calibration of LCD-based Multi-Layer Light Field Displays", OSA Int. Symposium on Display Holography 2012

Marwah, K., Wetzstein, G., Veeraraghavan, A., Raskar, R. "Compressive Light Field Photography", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Talk

Lawson, E., Boggess, J., Khullar, S., Olwal, A., Wetzstein, G., Raskar, R. "Computational Retinal Imaging via Binocular Coupling and Indirect Illumination", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Talk

Masia, B., Wetzstein, G., Aliaga, C., Raskar, R., Gutierrez, D. "Perceptually-optimized Content Remapping for Computational 3D Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Poster


2011 Wetzstein, G., Lanman, D., Heidrich, W., Raskar, R. "Layered 3D: Tomographic Image Synthesis for Attenuation-based Light Field and High Dynamic Range Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2011. SIGGRAPH 2011 Paper Highlight, Proceedings Cover Feature, and featured in The Boston Globe!

Lanman, D., Wetzstein, G., Hirsch, M., Heidrich, W., Raskar, R. "Polarization Fields: Dynamic Light Field Display using Multi-Layer LCDs", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph Asia) 2011. Featured in The Boston Globe!

Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Lanman, D., Heidrich, W. "Computational Plenoptic Imaging", Computer Graphics Forum (Journal), Volume 30, Issue 8, pp. 2397–2426, 2011

Wetzstein, G., Roodnick, D., Heidrich, W., Raskar, R. "Refractive Shape from Light Field Distortion", IEEE International Conference on Computational Vision (ICCV) 2011

Wetzstein, G., Raskar, R., Heidrich, W. "Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2011, Best Paper Award!

Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Lanman, D., Heidrich, W. "State of the Art in Computational Plenoptic Imaging", Eurographics (EG) STAR 2011

Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Gokov, A., Heidrich, W. "Towards a Database of High-dimensional Plenoptic Images", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP Poster) 2011


2010 Ihrke, I., Wetzstein, G., Heidrich, W., "A Theory of Plenoptic Multiplexing", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) with oral presentation, 2010

Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Heidrich, W., "Sensor Saturation in Fourier Multiplexed Imaging", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010

Grosse, M., Wetzstein, G., Grundhoefer, A., Bimber, O., "Coded Aperture Projection", Transactions on Graphics (Journal) 29:3, 2010, Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2010

Wetzstein, G., Luebke, D., and Heidrich, W., "Optical Image Processing Using Light Modulation Displays", Computer Graphics Forum (Journal), Volume 29, Issue 6, pages 1934-1944, 2010


2009 Grosse, M., Wetzstein, G., Grundhoefer, A., Bimber, O., "Adaptive Coded Aperture Projection", ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Talk


2008 Bimber, O., Iwai, D., Wetzstein, G., and Grundhoefer, A., "The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems", In Computer Graphics Forum (Journal), Volume 27, Number 8, pp. 2219-2245, 2008


2007 Wetzstein, G. and Bimber, O., "Radiometric Compensation through Inverse Light Transport", In Proceedings of Pacific Graphics, pp. 391-399, 2007

Bimber, O., Iwai, D., Wetzstein, G., and Grundhoefer, A., "The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems", Eurographics State of the Art Report, 2007

Wetzstein, G., Goellner, C.M., Beck, S., Feiszig, F., Derkau, S., Springer, J., Froehlich, B., "HECTOR - Scripting-Based VR System Design", ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Poster, 2007. ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist!


2006 Wetzstein, G. and Bimber, O., "Radiometric Compensation of Global Illumination Effects with Projector-Camera Systems", ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Poster. ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist!

Wuethrich, C. A., Augusto, J., Banisch, S., Wetzstein, G., Musialski, P., Hofmann, T. "Real Time Simulation of Elastic Latex Hand Puppets", International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), 2006


2005 Bimber, O., Wetzstein, G., Emmerling, A., and Nitschke, C. "Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies and International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2005

Bimber, O., Wetzstein, G., Emmerling, A., and Nitschke, C. "Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications, 2005.

Bimber, O., Zeidler, T., Grundhoefer, A., Wetzstein, G., Moehring, M., Knoedel, S., and Hahne, U. "Interacting with Augmented Holograms", In proceedings of SPIE Conference on Practical Holography XIX: Materials and Applications, 2005

Stephenson, P., Jungclaus, J., Branco, P., Horvatic, P., Wetzstein, G., Encarnacao, L. M. "The Interactive Aquarium : Game-Based Interfaces and Wireless Technologies for Future-Generation Edutainment", In TESI 2005 Conference Proceedings CD-ROM : Training, Education & Simulation International, 2005


2004 Wetzstein, G., Stephenson P. "Towards a Workflow and Interaction Framework for Virtual Aquaria", IEEE VR Workshop VR for Public Consumption, 2004


2003 Bimber, O., Grundhoefer, A., Wetzstein, G., and Knoedel S. "Consistent Illumination within Optical See-Through Augmented Environments", In proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Augmented and Mixed Reality (ISMAR), pp. 198-207, 2003

Bimber, O., Grundhoefer, A., Wetzstein, G., and Knoedel S. "Consistent Illumination within Optical See-Through Augmented Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications





Awards


2014 Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) for the paper "A Switchable Light Field Camera Architecture with Angle Sensitive Pixels and Dictionary-based Sparse Coding"

2013 Best Poster Award at the Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO) Symposium for the Poster "Compressive Cameras and Displays"

2012 Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Annual Award (Best Canadian Computer Graphics PhD Thesis in 2011), Awarded at Graphics Interface Conference 2012

2011 Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) for the paper "Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes"

2010 Doctoral Consortium, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

2009 Finalist in ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition "Adaptive Coded Aperture Projection"

2007 Semi-Finalist in ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition "HECTOR - Scripting-Based VR System Design" (presenter)

2006 Semi-Finalist in ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition "Radiometric Compensation of Global Illumination Effects with Projector-Camera Systems"

2005 Laval Virtual Award for "Smart Projector", Category Projection Systems, Laval Virtual International Conference on Virtual Reality, 2005





Funding and Scholarships


2013 - 2014 Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO), Wide Field of View Compressive Light Field Display, $100,000/yr

2011 - 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF), AdaCID: Adaptive Coded Imaging and Displays, Graphics & Visualization Program, Small Collaborative Research Grant, Award Number 1,116,452, $250,000

2011 - 2013 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras (SCENICC), $160,000/yr

2012 - 2014 National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), $40,000/yr

09/06 - 08/11 PhD Tuition Award, University of British Columbia, $7,200/yr

09/10 - 08/11 Four Year Fellowship (FYF), University of British Columbia, $16,000/yr

09/09 - 08/10 Theodore E Arnold Fellowship, University of British Columbia, $15,500/yr

09/09 - 08/10 Four Year Fellowship (FYF), University of British Columbia, $500/yr

09/08 - 08/09 Walter C Koerner Fellowship, University of British Columbia, $16,000/yr

02/05 - 05/05 Research Scholarship, Otago University (Dunedin, New Zealand), $5,000

09/03 - 02/04 ini-GraphicsNet Scholarship, iMedia (Providence RI, USA), 1,700 Euros





Teaching Experience


2013 "Compressive Computational Photography and Display", Industry R&D Seminar, Tokyo, Japan (Instructor)

"MAS.132/MAS.532 Mathematical Methods in Imaging", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)

"Computational Displays", Eurographics Tutorial (Organizer and Co-Instructor)

2012 "MAS.131/531 Computational Cameras and Photography", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)

"MAS.132/532 Future of Imaging", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)

"Computational Plenoptic Imaging", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course (Organizer and Co-Instructor)

"Computational Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course (Organizer and Co-Instructor). SIGGRAPH 2012 Courses Highlight!

2011 "Computational Plenoptic Imaging", Eurographics 2011 State of the Art Report and Tutorial (Organizer and Co-Instructor)

"CS314 Introduction to Computer Graphics", University of British Columbia (Guest Lecturer - 02/11)

2009 "CS314 Introduction to Computer Graphics", University of British Columbia (Guest Lecturer - 03/09)

2007 "The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems". Eurographics 2007 State of the Art Report and Tutorial (Co-Instructor and Co-Author)

"CS314 Introduction to Computer Graphics", University of British Columbia (Teaching Assistant)

2006 "CS121 Models of Computation", University of British Columbia (Teaching Assistant)

2002 Computer Graphics Lab, Bauhaus-University Weimar (Teaching Assistant)





Patents


2013 K. Marwah, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Compressive Light Field Photography", US Patent Application

2013 F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, J. Gregson, R. Raskar, W. Heidrich "Compressive Superresolution Display", US Patent Application

2013 M. Hirsch, G. Wetzstein, V. Lee, R. Raskar "A Compressive Light Field Projection System", US Patent Application

2012 G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar "Tensor Displays", US Patent Application 13736769

2011 D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, M. Hirsch, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Polarization Fields", US Patent 2014/8,651,678 B2

2010 G. Wetzstein, I. Ihrke, W. Heidrich "Multiplexed Imaging", US Patent 2011/0267482 A1 (licensed by Dolby Laboratories)

2010 Grosse, M., Wetzstein, G., Bimber, O., Grundhofer A. "Coded Aperture Projection", US Patent Application

2005 Bimber, O., Emmerling, A., Wetzstein, G., and Nitschke, C., and Klemmer, T. "Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Darstellung eines digitalen Bildes auf einer geometrisch und photometrisch nicht-trivialen Oberflaehe", German Patent Application





Keynotes and Selected Talks


Jan 2014 "A New Area in Computational Displays", Keynote, SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (San Francisco, USA)

June 2013 "Compressive Cameras and Displays", Invited Talks: NEC Corporation, Olympus, Fujitsu, Toshiba Corporation, Loftworks, Keio University, Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Denso IT (Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan)

May 2013 "An Overview of Computational Imaging Research at MIT", Invited Talk, US Patent and Trademark Office (Washington DC, USA)

Apr 2013 "Compressive Light Field Displays", Invited Talk, International Conference on Computational Photography (Cambridge, USA)

Jan 2013 "Compressive Light Field Displays", Keynote, CUSO Winter School on Computational Photography and Display (Lenk, Switzerland)

2012 - 2013 "Compressive Light Field Displays", Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), HP Research Labs (USA), Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik (Saarbruecken, Germany), Eberhard Karls Universitaet (Tuebingen, Germany), Disney Research (Zuerich, Switzerland)

May 2012 "Beyond Parallax Barriers", Pixtronix, Inc. (Wilmington, USA)

Feb 2012 "Computational Multilayer Light Field Displays", Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, USA), University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

Jan 2012 "An Overview of Automultiscopic Display Research at the MIT Media Lab", 3M Optical Systems Division (St. Paul, USA)

July 2010 "Computational Light Modulation for Image Acquisition and Display", Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik (Saarbruecken, Germany)

Oct 2006 "Reverse Radiosity: Compensating Indirect Scattering for Immersive and Semi-Immersive Projection Displays", Computer and Information Science Seminars, University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)

July 2005 "Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments", Hitlab (Christchurch, New Zealand)

May 2005 "Combining Holograms with interactive Computer Graphics", Computer and Information Science Seminars, University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)





Professional Service and Volunteering


Program Chair IEEE CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD, merged with the PROCAM workshops) 2013

IEEE CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) 2012


Program Committee ACM SIGGRAPH, Technical Papers 2014

International Conference on Computational Photograpy (ICCP) 2014

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2014

Pacific Graphics 2014

IEEE CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) 2014

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Worshops 2014

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies 2014

Eurographics Short Papers 2014

SIBGRAPI 2014

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies 2013

International Conference on Computational Photograpy (ICCP) 2013

International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics) 2013

ACM SIGGRAPH General Submissions (Courses, Panels, Talks, Posters, E-Tech, Studio) 2012

ACCV International Workshop on Computational Photography and Low-Level Vision 2012

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2010

IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS) 2007


Paper Reviewer ACM SIGGRAPH (2013,2012,2011,2009,2008,2007), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2013,2012,2011,2010,2009), ACM Trans. Graph. (2014,2013), ACM SIGCHI (2013), IEEE CVPR (2014,2013,2012), ECCV (2014,2012), ACM Trans. Im/ Proc. (2014), IEEE ICCV (2011), OSA JOSAA (2013), OSA Optics Express (2013), IEEE TVCG (2013,2012,2011), IJCV (2013), IEEE ICCP (2014,2013), Computer Graphics Forum (2013, 2011), Computers & Graphics (2013), EGSR (2011), Eurographics (2014,2013,2007), ACM UIST (2013), ACM VRST (2008), IEEE PROCAMS (2007), The Visual Computer (2012), IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (2013,2012,2011,2010,2009,2007,2006,2003), Eurographics Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC, 2009), Computer Graphics and Applications (2010), JZUS (2013), IPSJ (2012)

04/10 - 04/11 Elected Councelor representing the Computer Science Department in UBC's Graduate Student Society

04/08 - 04/10 Elected Student Representative in the Graduate Affairs Committee, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia

2003 - 2007 Student Volunteer Team Leader: ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, 2006, and 2007; Student Volunteer at ACM SIGGRAPH 2003