Tomas Akenine-Möller

Short bio: I am a professor in computer science with specialization in computer graphics and image processing at the Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden. Over the past years, I've built my own computer graphics group, LUGG (Lund University Graphics Group). I received an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Lund in 1995, and went on to Chalmers University of Technology, where I got my PhD in computer graphics in 1998. During 2000, I was a post doc at UC Berkeley, and I also spent some time at UC San Diego (2004/2005) as a visiting researcher. I've been co-papers-chairing  Graphics Hardware (2004), Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2006), and Eurographics 2010. I was recently on a panel discussion about "Real-Time Realism will Require" at HPG 2010 (slides). I also work part time at Intel in Lund as an R&D manager with a fantastic team of graphics researchers. In December 2008, Intel acquired Swiftfoot Graphics, which is a company I co-founded.

Some of my favourite research interests within computer graphics:

• Real-time rendering (realistic and rapid)
• Many-core rendering and graphics hardware
• Ray tracing and global illumination
• Collision detection and intersection test methods

I work closely with these six fantastic PhD students:

• Magnus Andersson
• Rasmus Barringer
• Petrik Clarberg (now at Intel)
• Carl Johan Gribel
• Björn Johnsson
• Jim Rasmusson (now at Ericsson)

Miscellaneous:

• Publications: The complete list (2004 and newer), and older publications are here.
• Our book: Real-Time Rendering with Eric Haines and Naty Hoffman. 
• My previous PhD students:
  • Ulf Assarsson, PhD in October 2003 (Chalmers University of Technology)
  • Jonas Lext
  • Thomas Larsson, PhD in January 2009
  • Jon Hasselgren, PhD in June 2009 (now at Intel)
  • Jacob Munkberg, PhD in April 2011 (now at Intel)

Contact: tam (at) cs.lth.se

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