Research interests:

Education:

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  MS - Computer Science, expected 2012
  PhD - Computer Science, expected 2012
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  BS - Computer Science, 2004
  Technical Translator in German, 2004

Work experience:

• University of North Carolina, Gamma group 2007 - Present
  Research Assistant
  • Created interactive GPU based sound propagation system for early specular reflection and diffraction.
  • Designed interactive acoustic simulation with diffuse, specular, and diffraction components
  • Developed diffraction tracing using real-time ray frustum tracer
• Dolby - San Francisco, CA Summer 2010
  Research intern
  • Designed fast GPU and CPU based audio rendering system
  • Collaborated with senior researchers on large scale acoustic rendering systems
• Experian - Baker Hill, Carmel, IN 2004 - 2007
  Software Engineer
  • Served as lead designer on critical path projects for major products
  • Developed tools to automate refactoring of over 50,000 lines of code
  • Designed and implemented automatic build and deploy process across multiple platforms and devices
• Senior Year Project for Sagian, RHIT 2004
  Project Manager
  • Planned team direction and goals
  • Assigned and managed sub-teams
  • Worked with team leaders to complete artifacts
• Integral Technology, Indianapolis, IN Summer 2002, Summer 2003
  Intern
  • Built cross platform Unix/Windows program to test hardware
  • Worked on extension of LinuxBIOS project
  • Designed and implemented interactive HTML sales demos

Teaching experience:

• University of North Carolina, Introduction to Computer Graphics, Fall 2011
  Instructor
  • Full responsibility for course, including structure and lectures
  • Designed homeworks, quizzes, and programming assignments
  • Held office hours and graded assignments
• University of North Carolina, Advanced Image Synthesis, Fall 2008
  Teaching Assistant
  • Implemented Wavefront OBJ loader for ray tracing scenes
  • Graded assignments and tested assignment softwares
• University of North Carolina, Computer Architecture, Fall 2007
  Teaching Assistant
  • Conducted reviews of classroom materials
  • Held office hours and graded assignments
• Hancock County Public Library, Greenfield IN Summer 2003
  Volunteer
  • Prepared and taught basic Java programming class
  • Handled lab setup and student questions
• Hancock County Public Library, Greenfield IN 1999 - 2000
  Volunteer
  • Taught basic Internet skills class
  • Worked with students on example internet use
  • Tutored basic computer use

Skills:

• Programming
  C, C++, Javascript, PHP, VB6, C#, MATLAB, Java, SQL, Scheme
• APIs & Tools
  CUDA, OpenGL, OpenMP, SDL, Blender, Final Cut, Audacity, Apache, Git, Bash

Projects:

• Implemented platform independent realtime ray tracer. Supports multiple hierarchy structures, split-selectors, shaders, and post-processing.
• Designed and implemented fast motion blur effects using sample reprojection. Generates similar results to stochastic motion blur at a fraction of the cost.
• Maintain and host my personal webpage. Custom code and design with database backend and light frontend.

Publications:

Journals and conferences

• Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Qi Mo, Christian Lauterbach, Carl Schissler, and Dinesh Manocha Guided Multiview Ray Tracing for Fast Auralization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (To appear)
• Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha, Direct-to-Indirect Acoustic Radiance Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2012
• Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha, Fast and Accurate Geometric Sound Propagation using Visibility Computations, International Symposium on Room Acoustics 2010
• Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Dinesh Manocha, RESound: Interactive Sound Rendering for Dynamic Virtual Environments, 17th International ACM Conference on Multimedia, 2009
• Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha, FastV: From-point Visibility Culling on Complex Models, 20th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2009
• Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Zhimin Ren, Christian Lauterbach, Dinesh Manocha, Fast Edge-Diffraction for Sound Propagation in Complex Virtual Environments, EAA Symposium on Auralization, 2009
• Anish Chandak, Christian Lauterbach, Micah Taylor, Zhimin Ren, Dinesh Manocha, AD-Frustum: Adaptive Frustum Tracing for Interactive Sound Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2008

Other

• Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha Fast Geometric Sound Propagation with Finite Edge Diffraction, Tech report, 2010
• Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Dinesh Manocha, Interactive geometric sound propagation, EE Times, 2010
• Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Dinesh Manocha, Interactive Geometric Sound Propagation and Rendering, Intel Academic Spotlight, 2010