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Cem Yuksel is an Associate Professor at the Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, and founder of Cyber Radiance LLC. His research focuses on computer graphics, including real-time rendering, physically-based simulations, global illumination, and hair/cloth modeling. He holds a PhD from Texas A&M University and has been a postdoc at Cornell University.
Education: PhD in Computer Science (2010, Texas A&M), MS in Computer Engineering (2003, Bogazici University), BS in Physics (2000, Bogazici University).
Research interests include Hair Meshes for real-time hair rendering, high-performance polynomial solvers, mesh color textures, and wearable 3D knitting. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and received awards such as the Wolfgang Straßer Best Paper Award (2022) and multiple Dean’s commendations for teaching. Courses taught include Introduction to Computer Graphics and Rendering with Ray Tracing.
Key projects: Hair Meshes (SIGGRAPH 2024), Stochastic Lightcuts (HPG 2019), Mesh Color Textures (2020), and high-performance polynomial solvers (SIGGRAPH 2022). His work has been implemented in commercial software like Hair Farm for 3ds Max.
Grants and service roles include steering committee member for High-Performance Graphics (HPG) and organizing SIGGRAPH conferences. He runs a graphics research lab at the University of Utah.
