Marc Olano
About Marc Olano
Affiliations
- SGI
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
Marc Olano received his Ph.D. from UNC in 1998 for the first high-level shading language for graphics hardware, and worked at SGI on early commercial efforts toward programmable graphics hardware. He is now an associate professor in the CSEE department at UMBC. Since coming to UMBC, much of his work has focused on real-time rendering in games, including work with 2K, Activision, Big Huge Games, Epic, Firaxis, and Oxide Games. He organized SIGGRAPH courses on real-time shading from 2000–2006, was Real-Time Live chair in 2020, and was the editor in chief of the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques from 2015–2024.
SIGGRAPH Member Profile
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SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Real-Time Live!
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2018: Real-Time Live!
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Studio
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2013: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2013: Studio
- SIGGRAPH 2013: Courses
- SIGGRAPH 2013: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2013: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Courses
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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VR Experiences
Learning
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Courses
Posters
Technical Papers
Courses Organized
- “Approaches for Procedural Shading on Graphics Hardware” by Olano, Hart, Heidrich, McCool, Mark, et al. …
- “Real-Time Shading” by Olano, Hart, Heidrich, Lindholm, McCool, et al. …
- “State of the Art in Hardware Shading” by Olano, Boyd, McCool, Mark, Mitchell, et al. …
- “Real-Time Shading Languages” by Olano, Hart, Heidrich, Mark and Perlin
- “Real-Time Shading” Chaired by Marc Olano
- “Real-Time Shading” by Olano, Akeley, Hart, Heidrich, McCool, et al. …
- “GPU Shading and Rendering” by Bleiweiss, Gritz, Hart, Kilgard, McCool, et al. …
- “GPU Shading and Rendering” by Blythe, Gritz, Kilgard, McCool, Pellacini, et al. …
SIGGRAPH Organization Contributions
Community Events
- 2022 Panel: Chasing Pixels: The Pioneering Graphics Processors
Other Information
Roles
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Real-Time Live Organizing Committee Chair
- Technical Papers Jury Member
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