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Micah Taylor

Research interests:

Interactive sound propagation : Realtime ray tracing : Visibility & rendering

Education:

  • PhD - Computer Science, May 2014
    "Interactive Sound Propagation for Massive Multi-user and Dynamic Virtual Environments"
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • MS - Computer Science, 2012
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • BS - Computer Science, 2004
    Technical Translator in German, 2004
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Work experience:

  • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2012 - Present
    Assistant Professor
    • Taught introductory and elective courses
    • Served as academic adviser to CS/SE students
    • Worked with colleagues and served on committees to improve Computer Science and Software Engineering course offerings
  • Green Hills Software, 2018
    Software Engineer
    • Investigated and documentated advanced debugging techniques
    • Designed undergraduate course on robust and repeatable debugging processes
  • Impulsonic (now Valve), 2016
    Senior Researcher
    • Developed proprietary acoustic algorithms.
    • Developed software with team in-office and remotely
  • University of North Carolina, Gamma group 2007 - 2012
    Research Assistant
  • 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
  • Baker Hill (now Experian), 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

Teaching experience:

  • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2012 - present
    Assistant Professor
      Courses taught:
    • Introduction to Computer Systems - 9
    • Computer Architecture - 14
    • Computer Graphics - 4
    • Advanced Computer Graphics - 3
    • Independent study - 6
    • Thesis - 2 advised
  • 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

  1. Micah Taylor. CourseUp: Human readable course language, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 2018 (to appear)
  2. Micah Taylor, Sid Stamm, and Christine Taylor. The impact of changing homework frequency in a computer architecture course, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 2018 (to appear)
  3. Micah Taylor and Francis Meng. Web-based geometric acoustic simulator, 23rd International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology 2018
    10.1145/3208806.3208817
  4. 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 2012 (26%)
    10.1109/TVCG.2012.27
  5. Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha. Direct-to-Indirect Acoustic Radiance Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2012 (26%)
    10.1109/TVCG.2011.76
  6. Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha. Efficient finite-edge diffraction using conservative from-region visibility, Applied Acoustics 2011 (43%)
    10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.09.004
  7. Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha. Fast and Accurate Geometric Sound Propagation using Visibility Computations, International Symposium on Room Acoustics 2010
  8. Micah Taylor, Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Dinesh Manocha. RESound: Interactive Sound Rendering for Dynamic Virtual Environments, 17th International ACM Conference on Multimedia 2009 (16%)
    10.1145/1631272.1631311
  9. Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha. FastV: From-point Visibility Culling on Complex Models, 20th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2009 (29%)
    10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01501.x
  10. 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
  11. 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 (26%)
    10.1109/TVCG.2008.111

Patents

  1. Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha.
    Methods and systems for direct-to-indirect acoustic radiance transfer, US 8995675
  2. Nicolas Tsingos, Micah Taylor.
    Method and system for split client-server reverberation processing, US 8958567
  3. Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Micah Taylor, Dinesh Manocha.
    Methods, systems, and computer readable media for fast geometric sound propagation using visibility computations, US 8847695

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