CS PhD Student @ CMU
About
I am a third year PhD student studying computer graphics at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Ioannis Gkioulekas and supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Previously, I received my BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Dartmouth College, where I was fortunate to work with Wojciech Jarosz, Colin Meyer, and Bo Zhu.
Tanli Su, Ioannis Gkioulekas
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2024
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My final project for my Rendering Algorithms class (Fall 2021) at Dartmouth won first place in the student rendering competition. My partner and I were honored to win NVIDIA graphics cards and to be the first undergraduate students to ever win the competition. View the project report here.
For my senior thesis at Dartmouth, I studied light transport through glacier snow/ice, which is important for understanding climate feedbacks and for improving remote sensing of snow. I developed a model which used Monte Carlo ray tracing to compute snow optical properties and simulate the spectral albedo of snowpacks. The model accounted for complex snow microstructure by incorporating micro-CT data from real snow, and it explored the use of non-exponential free-flight distributions for modeling light transport through snow.
For the final project of my Physical Simulation class at Dartmouth, my partner and I implemented rigid body coupling with SPH fluid.
For my internship project at MongoDB, I added support for SDAM (Server Discovery and Monitoring) events in the PHP Driver. I allowed applications to register an SDAM event subscriber and listen to SDAM events, which required writing new API classes, unit tests, and documentation.
