Mallikarjun Swamy

I am currently working as a Staff Graphics Software Engineer at Samsung Research America after completing my Master's degree specializing in Graphics and Vision at University of California, San Diego.

I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India. I completed my bachelor thesis at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems advised by Sergi Pujades Rocamora.

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A real time soft shadow renderer for CPU based on the paper Axis-Aligned Filtering for Interactive Sampled Soft Shadows.

Implemented Photon Mapping algorithm as part of the educational renderer LaJolla.

Shape characterization and 3D localization of internal organs from medical images.

A glTF viewer implemented in OpenGL using Blinn-Phong shading and omni-directional shadow maps with percentage closer filtering.

Differentiable implementation of the paper Gradient Estimation for Real-Time Adaptive Temporal Filtering (A-SVGF) in python using Jax.

Volumetric path tracer with delta tracking to handle scattering and absorption due to participating media.

Real time caustics without ray tracing and shadow mapping implementation using The Forge rendering framework.

Toy path tracer using Apple's Metal ray tracing API.

Disney principled Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function (BSDF).