Marc Olano Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, ITE 354 University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 +1-410-455-3094 olano@umbc.edu

Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Learning, College of Engineering and Information Technology Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Affiliate Associate Professor, Imaging Research Center Director, Computer Science Game Development Track Co-director, VANGOGH lab

Major accomplishments:

• Pioneered procedural shading on graphics hardware, now a standard feature on every PC and game platform. This is one of the defining features of graphics hardware today.
• Developed a homogeneous (clipless) rendering technique used in many generations of PC graphics processors.
• Did some of the key work on using normal maps on low-detail 3D models (including coming up with the name), now a common technique in games.
• Developed automatic shader program simplification. I did it to allow more complex hardware shaders, but has lead to work by Pixar and Industrial Light and Magic for interactive previews of movie production shaders.

Resources

• For more information on UMBC's programs on Games, Animation and Interactive Media (including game development track requirements), see the GAIM page.
• Notes on using CVS or GIT for electronic classwork submission
• Scrum burndown template as an online google sheet

Classes

• Undergraduate and graduate independent study opportunities available, contact me for details.

Research

My research interests are interactive 3D computer graphics, programmable shading, graphics hardware, surface appearance modeling, or almost any other combination of those words.

Publications

• Papers
• Theses
• SIGGRAPH courses
• Patents
• Tech Reports
• Real-Time Shading book

Lighting and Shading

Procedural Shading

Rendering

Texture Compression

Virtual Reality

Visualization

GPGPU

Other Stuff