SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND IMAGING INSTITUTE
at the University of Utah

Background

• I completed my Honors Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at Idaho State University
• I was an undergraduate research assistant for Dr. John Edwards at Idaho State University, where I studied GPGPU accelerated construction of object separating octrees
  • https://www2.cose.isu.edu/~edwajohn/
• I was also a research assistant for James Money in the Applied Visualization Lab at the Center for Applied Energy Studies at Idaho National Laboratories, where I explored hierarchical volume visualization techniques for CAVE and VR environments.
  • https://www.inl.gov/article/advanced-visualization-lab/
  • https://www.landonwoolley.com/pdf/gpgpuresearchpaper.pdf
• Software Development Intern under Wayne Wooten at Pixar, where I added automatic python bindings for the RenderMan 22 API for use in interactive ray tracing applications and internal testing purposes
  • https://renderman.pixar.com/whats-new

Current Responsibilities

• Investigating emerging graphics technologies for scientific visualization applications
• Developing interaction techniques for scientific data exploration
• Regularly demonstrate ongoing research

Research Interests

• Emerging graphics technologies including Vulkan and Nvidia RTX
• Human Computer Interaction
• GPGPU and High Performance Computing
• Physically based rendering techniques