Aaron E. Lefohn
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Intel Corporation
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- University of California, Davis
- NVIDIA
- Pixar Animation Studios
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2010
Aaron Lefohn is a senior graphics architect at Intel where he leads a research team creating new interactive rendering algorithms for current and future graphics architectures. Aaron previously led Intel’s involvement in OpenCL where he contributed significantly to OpenCL’s heterogeneous parallel coordination API. Before joining Intel, he designed parallel programming models for graphics as Principal Engineer at the graphics startup, Neoptica. Aaron’s Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Davis predicted the transition to “Fully Programmable Graphics” and introduced new interactive rendering algorithms that use parallel algorithms to build complex dynamic data structures. Aaron also spent three years at Pixar working on interactive rendering tools for artists and GPU acceleration of RenderMan. Aaron was an NSF graduate fellow in computer science.
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 2008, "Beyond Programmable Shading: Fundamentals"
- SIGGRAPH 2008, "Beyond Programmable Shading: In Action"
- SIGGRAPH 2010, "Beyond Programmable Shading I"
- SIGGRAPH 2010, "Beyond Programmable Shading II"
- SIGGRAPH 2012, "Beyond Programmable Shading"
Experience(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Technical Papers]
Random-Access Neural Compression of Material Textures Presenter(s): [Vaidyanathan] [Salvi] [Wronski] [Akenine-Moller] [Ebelin] [Lefohn]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Spatiotemporal Reservoir Resampling for Real-time Ray Tracing With Dynamic Direct Lighting Presenter(s): [Bitterli] [Wyman] [Pharr] [Shirley] [Lefohn] [Jarosz]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
Type: [Courses]
Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering Organizer(s): [Tatarchuk]
Presenter(s): [Tatarchuk] [Lefohn] [Pharr] [Karis] [Kelly] [Wyman]
Entry No.: [25]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive reconstruction of Monte Carlo image sequences using a recurrent denoising autoencoder Presenter(s): [Chaitanya] [Kaplanyan] [Schied] [Salvi] [Lefohn] [Nowrouzezahrai] [Aila]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Courses]
Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering Organizer(s): [Tatarchuk]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Lagarde] [Salvi] [Barré-Brisebois] [Lauritzen]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Courses]
Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering Organizer(s): [Tatarchuk]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Brainderd] [McGuire] [Foley] [Fatahalian] [Aila] [Andersson] [Lehtinen] [Li]
Entry No.: [18]
[SIGGRAPH 2016]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Frustum-Traced Irregular Z-Buffers: Fast, Sub-pixel Accurate Hard Shadows Presenter(s): [Wyman] [Hoetzlein] [Lefohn]
Entry No.: [71]
[SIGGRAPH 2015]
Type: [Courses]
Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering Organizer(s): [Tatarchuk]
Presenter(s): [Tatarchuk] [Lefohn] [Salvi] [Fatahalian] [Andersson]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 2015]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading Organizer(s): [Lefohn]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Andersson] [Lauritzen] [Crassin] [Ribble]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 2012]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading I Organizer(s): [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Houston] [Lefohn] [Koduri] [Ragan-Kelley] [Laine] [Pantaleoni] [Sloan] [Pharr]
Entry No.: [10]
[SIGGRAPH 2011]
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]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading I Organizer(s): [Lefohn] [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Luebke] [Fatahalian] [Foley] [Andersson] [Boyd] [Fascione] [Ragan-Kelley] [Akeley]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading II Organizer(s): [Lefohn] [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Luebke] [Fatahalian] [Foley] [Andersson] [Boyd] [Fascione] [Ragan-Kelley] [Akeley]
Entry No.: [21]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading I Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Fatahalian] [Foley]
Entry No.: [17]
[SIGGRAPH 2009]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading II Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Hensley] [Lalonde] [Fatahalian] [Foley] [Luebke]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 2009]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading: Fundamentals Organizer(s): [Lefohn] [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Boyd] [Fatahalian] [Forsyth] [Luebke] [Owens]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading: In Action Organizer(s): [Lefohn] [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Luebke] [Olick] [Pellacini]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Type: [Courses]
GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware Organizer(s): [Houston] [Govindaraju]
Presenter(s): [Harris] [Krüger] [Lefohn] [Owens] [Hensley]
Entry No.: [24]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Dynamic Adaptive Shadow Maps on Graphics Hardware Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Sengupta] [Kniss] [Strzodka] [Owens]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
Type: [Courses]
GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware Organizer(s): [Harris] [Luebke]
Presenter(s): [Buck] [Govindaraju] [Krüger] [Lefohn] [Purcell] [Woolley]
Entry No.: [39]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Lpics: a hybrid hardware-accelerated relighting engine for computer cinematography Presenter(s): [Pellacini] [Vidimče] [Lefohn] [Mohr] [Leone] [Warren]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Octree textures on graphics hardware Presenter(s): [Kniss] [Lefohn] [Strzodka] [Sengupta] [Owens]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
Role(s):
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Reviewer
- Technical Paper Presenter
If you find errors or omissions on your profile page, please contact us: historyarchives@siggraph.org
Did you know you can send us a photo of yourself and a bio and we will post it? Make sure the photo is at least 1000 x 1000 and send it to the email above along with the bio and we will add it to your page.
