Rajesh Sharma
About Rajesh Sharma
Affiliations
- The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios
- 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.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2013: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Labs
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Studio
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Labs
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Courses
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Labs-Studio
Contributor(s): Learning
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Courses
Diversity
Organizer(s):Presenter(s):Entry #: 12Education
Sessions Moderated
- “Introduction To Generative Machine Learning” by Sharma and Tang
Other Information
Roles
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Dailies Organizing Committee Chair
- Education Program Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
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