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Steven Parker is VP & CTO of Professional Graphics at NVIDIA Corporation, where he holds responsibility for professional graphics hardware and software, including NVIDIA Iray rendering system, the OptiX ray tracing API, the Material Definition Language, and the IndeX scientific visualization system. Combining a history of ray tracing, rendering and high-performance computing, Dr. Parker has been focused on bringing physically-based rendering systems to interactive applications.

Adrien Herubel is a principal software engineer at Autodesk. He works on the Arnold renderer team and leads the GPU project. Prior to joining Autodesk, Adrien worked at Ubisoft Motion Pictures, where he wrote the in-house renderer. He has over a decade of experience working in animation and VFX studios, specializing in both real-time and offline rendering.

Jos Stam is a graphics researcher who is fascinated by art, mathematics, and computers. Since 2018, he’s been with NVIDIA, working on the future of graphics and AI. His work has been published in leading journals like SIGGRAPH and he has given many invited and keynote talks around the world. He’s also received many prestigious awards, including the 2005 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award and three Academy Awards for the impact his work has had on the movie industry: in 2006 and 2019 for his work on subdivision surfaces and in 2008 for his work on fluid dynamics.

Morgan McGuire researches technology that can create new experiences through computer graphics. He's worked with NVIDIA since 2009. He's contributed to products in the graphics industry, including the Skylanders, Call of Duty, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and Titan Quest series of video games. He also worked on the Unity game engine, the E Ink display used in the Amazon Kindle, and the PeakStream GPU computing architecture acquired by Google.

Eric Haines is a distinguished engineer at NVIDIA working on interactive ray tracing. He co-authored the books Real-Time Rendering and An Introduction to Ray Tracing, edited The Ray Tracing News, and co-founded the Journal of Graphics Tools and the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. He’s also a creator and lecturer for the Udacity MOOC “Interactive 3D Graphics.”