My research interests span several areas of computer graphics including realistic, high-performance rendering, computer animation, fluid simulation, and geometry processing. Apart from devising new mathematical models of appearance, lighting and animation, I also apply techniques from machine learning in order to more faithfully reproduce real-world imagery. My research always considers the intersection of accuracy and performance, leveraging the latest graphics processors, multi-core architectures and cloud computing in order to accelerate and parallelize the execution of the computer graphics algorithms we design.