I'm currently at AMD working on product launch demos for their graphics hardware products and computer graphics research. Our latest product launch demo was Leo in: Sneeze the Day, which takes advantage of the improved compute power in the Radeon HD 7000 series architecture. I've also taken over responsibility for the engine we build these demos on. Recently, I got a bit of time to experiment with real-time Ptex as well.
Previously, I worked at Pixelux, a small physics middleware company that developed DMM (Digital Molecular Matter). DMM uses finite element analysis (FEA) to simulate how an object deforms and fractures according to it's material properties. DMM is one of the showcase technologies in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 1 and 2 , and has been used in film and television visual effects as well.
Prior to Pixelux, I worked at Electronic Arts in the Sims Division, the Central Technology Group, and on The Lord of the Rings: The White Council.
Before joining Electronic Arts, I was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I received my Ph.D. in Spring 2005. My dissertation title was Image Streaming to Build Image-Based Models. There was also a Siggraph 2003 Paper concentrating on the GPU implementation. While at UNC I also worked on visibility and occlusion culling algorithms.