Bochang Moon (문보창)

He is an associate professor in School of Integrated Technology at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), where he is leading the Computer Graphics Laboratory. Prior to joining GIST, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research (UK based). He received his MS and Ph.D in Computer Science from KAIST, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. His research focuses on optimization techniques of photorealistic rendering algorithms (e.g., ray tracing).
CV

• Photorealistic rendering
• Monte Carlo ray tracing
• AI + rendering
• Augmented and virtual reality

• Ph.D., Computer Science at KAIST (Feb. 2010 - Aug. 2014)
  Thesis: Acceleration Techniques for Monte Carlo Ray Tracing (Advisor: Sung-Eui Yoon)
• M.S., Computer Science at KAIST (Feb. 2008 - Jan. 2010)
  Thesis: Cache-Oblivious Ray Reordering (Advisor: Sung-Eui Yoon)
• B.S., Computer Engineering at Chung-Ang university (Mar. 2004 - Feb. 2008)
  Graduated summa cum laude (GPA: 4.35/4.50) from the college of engineering

• Associate Professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, Mar. 2022 - present
• Assistant Professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, Sep. 2016 - Feb. 2022
• Post-Doctoral Researcher at Disney Research Zurich (UK based), Nov. 2014 - July 2016
• Post-Doctoral Researcher at KAIST, Sep. 2014 - Oct. 2014
• Research Intern, Adobe (US), Jun. 2011 - Sep. 2011
• Research Assistant at Scalable Graphics/Geometric Algorithm Lab., KAIST, Feb. 2008 - Aug. 2014
• Teaching Assistant at Dept. of Computer Science, KAIST, Feb. 2009 - Jan. 2011

• Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
• Best Teacher Award at GIST 2021
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: Pacific Graphics 2018
  Related Work "Feature Generation for Adaptive Gradient-Domain Path Tracing"
• Significant New Researcher Award at Korea Computer Graphics Society 2014
• 1st place at ACM Student Research Competition held at ACM SIGGRAPH 09
  3rd place at the ACM Grand Finals
  Related Work "RACBVHs: Random-Accessible Compressed Bounding Volume Hierarchies"

• Associate Editor: The Visual Computer (2016 - present)
• Program Committee: SIGGRAPH Asia (Technical Communications and Posters 2020), Pacific Graphics (2019, 2022), EGSR (2017 - 2019), I3D (2018 - 2019), CGI (2018 - 2023), GI (2022 - 2023), AAAI (2023)
• Reviewer: ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, Visual Computer, IEEE VR, etc.