Micah Taylor

I am an expert in parallel 3D simulations, with a focus on realtime acoustics and graphics. I'm currently an Engine Programmer at Deep Silver Volition and was previously a tenured professor in the CSSE department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where I founded Kixor Technologies based on my work. I earned my PhD from UNC Chapel Hill under Dinesh Manocha. My CV is available as html or pdf.

Games

Saints Row (2022)
Responsible for high contrast mode, adaptive quality, particle systems, and weather system

Projects

Auditory display headset for the visually impaired
Uses sophisticated algorithms to create auditory landscapes from visual data.

High performance ray tracers
Some of my software has been licensed by Impulsonic (acquired by Valve); here's one of my old tracers

CHB library
Display raster graphics in text-mode interfaces

CourseUp education language
A domain specific language for developing college courses

Undergrad thesis & project supervision

• Thesis: Splashes and Water Wave Packets, Xingfang Yuan, 2018
• Proprietary High Performance Shortest Euclidean Path, Charles Horton, Xingfang Yuan, 2017
• Thesis: Automatic Parallelism in Javascript, Rose Reatherford, 2016
• Thesis: VR Cultural Heritage Sites, Si Faye Li, 2016
• Bluetooth Driver for XBOX 360 Controllers, Josh Maurer, 2016
• VGA Driver for Spartan 6 FPGA, Jake Whiteley, 2016
• Web Based Acoustic Simulator, Xianbo 'Francis' Meng, 2015

Patents

• US 8995675 Methods and systems for direct-to-indirect acoustic radiance transfer

• US 8958567 Method and system for split client-server reverberation processing

• US 8847695 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for fast geometric sound propagation using visibility computations

Publications