Steven G. Parker
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Utah, Research Scientist
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- NVIDIA
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2022
Dr. Steven Parker is vice president of professional graphics at NVIDIA Corporation, where he holds responsibility for several ray tracing technologies, including NVIDIA RTX™ drivers and APIs such as NVIDIA OptiX™, the RTX™ rendering systems in NVIDIA Omniverse™, the Material Definition Language, and the NVIDIA IndeX® scientific visualization system. Combining a history of ray tracing, rendering, and high-performance computing, Parker has been focused on bringing physically based rendering systems to interactive applications.
SIGGRAPH 1999
Steve Parker is a research scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Utah. His research focuses on problem solving environments, which tie together scientific computing, scientific visualization, and computer graphics. He is the principal architect of the SCIRun Software System, which formed the core of his Ph.D. dissertation. He was a recipient of the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Energy. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1992, and a PhD from the University of Utah in 1999.
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
![Sponsored Featured Speaker- NVIDIA Special Address at SIGGRAPH 2022](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-SIGGRAPH-Image-Not-Available-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Keynote]
Sponsored Featured Speaker- NVIDIA Special Address at SIGGRAPH 2022 Presenter(s): [Huang] [Lebaredian] [Fidler] [Yuen] [Parker]
[SIGGRAPH 2022]
![RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing With OptiX 7](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2020-19-RTX-accelerated-ray-tracing-with-OptiX-7-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Courses]
RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing With OptiX 7 Organizer(s): [Wald]
Presenter(s): [Parker]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
![RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing With OptiX](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2019-26-RTX-Accelerated-Ray-Tracing-With-OptiX-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Courses]
RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing With OptiX Organizer(s): [Wald]
Presenter(s): [Wald] [Parker]
Entry No.: [26]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]
![Beyond Programmable Shading II](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2011-12-Beyond-Programmable-Shading-II-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading II Organizer(s): [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Houston] [Lefohn] [Salvi] [Parker] [Wyman] [Boyd] [Moreton] [Koduri] [Munkberg] [Sloan] [Blythe]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 2011]
![Compiler Techniques for Rendering](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2011-20-Compiler-Techniques-for-Rendering-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Courses]
Compiler Techniques for Rendering Organizer(s): [Gritz]
Presenter(s): [Gritz] [Leone] [Parker] [Slusallek] [Walter]
Entry No.: [20]
[SIGGRAPH 2011]
![OptiX: a general purpose ray tracing engine](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2010-Technical-Papers-Parker_OptiX_-A-General-Purpose-Ray-Tracing-Engine-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Technical Papers]
OptiX: a general purpose ray tracing engine Presenter(s): [Parker] [Bigler] [Dietrich] [Friedrich] [Hoberock] [Luebke] [McAllister] [McGuire] [Morley] [Robison] [Stich]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
![Rethinking Graphics and Gaming Courses Because of Fast Ray Tracing](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2007-Educators-Forum-Shirley_Rethinking-Graphics-and-Gaming-Courses-01-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Rethinking Graphics and Gaming Courses Because of Fast Ray Tracing Presenter(s): [Shirley] [Sung] [Brunvand] [Davis] [Parker] [Boulos]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
![Ray tracing animated scenes using coherent grid traversal](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2006-Technical-Papers-Wald_Ray-Tracing-Animated-Scenes-using-Coherent-Grid-Traversal-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Technical Papers]
Ray tracing animated scenes using coherent grid traversal Presenter(s): [Wald] [Ize] [Kensler] [Knoll] [Parker]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
![Interactive Ray-Tracing](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2001-13-Course-Cover-Interactive-Ray-Tracing-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Courses]
Interactive Ray-Tracing Organizer(s): [Slusallek]
Presenter(s): [Slusallek] [Parker] [Reinhard] [Pfister] [Purcell]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]
Role(s):
- Course Presenter
- Educator's Forum Presenter
- Keynote Speaker
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter