About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher in Junqiu Zhu's group at Shandong University. My research focuses on photorealistic rendering, including appearance modeling for complex
multi-scale materials (human skin, hair, fur, scales, feathers, cosmetics, textiles, and granular materials), light transport simulation algorithms and data-driven representations. I am also interested in inverse
rendering, differentiable rendering and 3D reconstruction. I am currently collaborating with Zahra Montazeri's group on the representation
and rendering of textiles.
I completed my PhD dissertation, Modeling and Rendering of Multiscale Materials, at the Graphics and Imaging Lab, Universidad de Zaragoza. I was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow of the EU Project PRIME, advised by Adolfo Muñoz and Adrian Jarabo. I hold an M.Sc. in Informatics from the Technical University of Munich with a major in Graphics and Vision, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Universidad Central de Venezuela with a major in Computer Graphics.
A multi-scale Gaussian representation for rendering fabric flyaways, enabling efficient sheen and fuzziness effects with orders-of-magnitude lower storage than curve- or volume-based approaches. Implemented as a custom integration and BSDF plugins in Mitsuba 3.
2026, Jul 28 — 2 minute readA unified particle dynamics framework for spectral noise point distribution synthesis, transforming arbitrary input distributions into blue, pink, and red noise patterns within a single simulation pipeline. We showcase applications of the framework on image stippling, object placement, and Monte Carlo rendering. The framework is implemented in Python (NumPy, SciPy's cKDTree, and Numba) and results visualized via Blender's bpy API and evaluated in Monte Carlo rendering through PBRT v4.
2026, Jun 19 — 2 minute readA procedural framework for modeling multiscale volumetric materials using implicit surfaces and sphere tracing. It supports rich micro- and mesostructures, including microstructure reconstruction from image and distance values. The framework is implemented as procedural shaders in the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing API. This project received a Best Paper (Honorable Mention) award.
2025, Oct 17 — 2 minute readFar-field appearance model that implicitly represents the light scattering from the main biological structures of a feather such as the shaft, barb and barbules accounting for the accurate masking and the medulla structure inside the barbs. The material was implemented as a BSDF material inside the popular physically-based renderer Mitsuba, while the geometry was represented by a 2D texture.
2024, Aug 24 — 3 minute readMultilayered appearance model inspired by the specific characteristics of cosmetics foundation components capable of stacking multiple cosmetic products on top of a digital human skin. The material was implemented as a BSDF layered material inside the popular physically-based renderer PBRT.
2024, Jul 01 — 2 minute readMultilayered appearance model based on the anatomy of the snake skin capable of reproducing the main appearance features on snake colors such as the highly specular iridescent colors and dark diffuse skin. The material was implemented as a BSDF layered material inside the popular physically-based renderer Mitsuba.
2023, Jul 06 — 1 minute readPhysically-based rendering sandbox using Vulkan.
2020, Nov 08 — 1 minute readGiven an arbitrary portrait image and a target lighting as inputs, the algorithm generates the relight version of the portrait image under the target lighting conditions.
2020, Jul 31 — 2 minute read