Jared M Johnson
Media Convergence Laboratory
3280 Progress Drive
Orlando, FL
32826
U.S.A.
Born: November 14, 1979-Utah, USA
Nationality: American
Education
M.S. in Computer Science,
University of Central Florida
B.S. in Computer Science, Cum Laude,
University of Utah
B.S. in Mathematics,
University of Utah
Awards
Florida Trustee's Fellowship
Computer Science Department Scholarship
National Merit Scholarship
Relevant Experience
Research Assistant, Media Convergence Laboratory,
University of Central Florida
Designed a rendering engine to visualize the forest fire simulator FARSITE. The system is utilized in user studies for economics and public policy-making research; renders realistic fire and smoke conditions in huge forest areas in real-time; can be controlled with a variety of input devices and rendered seamlessly across many projectors as one ultra-high-resolution view; and handles many different fire types, geographic locals, and scenarios.
Intern, Advanced Technology Lab,
Adobe Systems
Discovered novel methods for rendering ray-traced shadows, accelerating current global illumination algorithms, and improving scene geometry acceleration structures. Helped integrate this work into a large 3D rendering engine for commercial products. Filed two separate patent applications for these inventions.
Research Assistant, Graphics Research Group,
University of Utah
Co-invented a novel algorithm for representing polarized light in a path tracer. Assisted in research on physically-based and energy-conserving BRDF models, as well as a physically based path tracer rendering system supporting discrete wavelength of light ray-tracing and polarization.
Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering Course,
University of Utah
Instructed labs regularly as well as assisted students in various undergraduate software engineering projects. Helped design assignments and exams.
Publications
"Image Synthesis Using Adjoint Photons"
R. Keith Morley, Solomon Boulos, Jared Johnson, Dave Edwards, Peter Shirley, Michael Ashikhmin and Simon Premoze.
Proceedings of Graphics Interface, 2006.
"The Halfway Vector Disk for BRDF Modeling"
Dave Edwards, Solomon Boulos, Jared Johnson, Peter Shirley, Michael Ashikhmin, Michael Stark, Chris Wyman.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, January 2006.
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~jared/cv.html -- Last updated: Jan 30, 2009
