Shuang Zhao

I am an Associate Professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before joining UIUC, I was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of California, Irvine (UCI). I obtained my Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University in 2014 advised by Kavita Bala.

I received the NSF CAREER Award and a SIGGRAPH Asia Best Papers Award in 2023.

My group works mainly in physics-based computer graphics and scientific computing with a focus on modeling and simulating light transport in complex environments. Additionally, we aim to develop efficient solutions to the inverse problems centered around the inference of geometric or material properties from physical or simulated measurements.

Perspective students/visitors: If you are interested in working with me, please check this page.