Rajesh Sharma
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- ETH Zürich
- Spire Animation Studios
Bio:
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Rajesh spent 23 years at Walt Disney Animation Studios in various management and individual contributor roles including incubating and managing the Hyperion renderer team, and driving development for innovative production tools. Afterwards, he was the VP of Engineering at Spire Animation Studios where he led the engineering efforts to enable artists to create high quality animation content using new workflows and game engine technology. Recently, Rajesh joined ETH Zurich as a PhD student where he conducts research at the intersection of rendering and machine learning at Disney Research. Rajesh is actively involved in SIGGRAPH as a reviewer, juror and educator.
Learning Category: Organizing Committee Chair:
Course Organizer:
Experience Category: Jury Member:
- Computer Animation, SIGGRAPH 2013
- Computer Animation, SIGGRAPH 2012
- Appy Hour, SIGGRAPH 2022
- Appy Hour, SIGGRAPH 2021
- Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH 2022
- Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH 2021
- Labs-Studio, SIGGRAPH 2022
- Appy Hour, SIGGRAPH 2014
- Labs-Studio, SIGGRAPH 2014
- Labs-Studio, SIGGRAPH 2021
Learning Category: Jury Member:
- Talks-Sketches, SIGGRAPH 2014
- Talks-Sketches, SIGGRAPH 2021
- Talks-Sketches, SIGGRAPH 2022
- Panels, SIGGRAPH 2022
- Panels, SIGGRAPH 2021
- Courses, SIGGRAPH 2014
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Learning Category: Moderator:
Role(s):
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Dailies Organizing Committee Chair
- Educator's Forum Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Unified Jury Member
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