Curriculum Vitae



Personal Data


Name: Iñigo Quílez
Birthday: 24-05-1979, Donostia (Spain)
Nationality: Spanish
Address: rue des Tongres 39, 2eme etage, Brussels
Phone: 0032 (0)485 308751





Education


SM in Telecommunications Engineering at "Universidad del País Vasco", Spain. Telematics intensification, with strong Digital Signal Processing and Digital Electronics emphasis. Thesis: "Implementation of a High Impedance Fault realtime detector using Wavelet Packet Aalysis"



Languages



·Spanish: native language
·English: fluent
·Basque: second native language
·French: very basic level



Hobbies



I love skiing and the mountains, philosophy, fractal mathematics and computer graphics



Skills



Computer graphics and mathematics


·R&D in realtime rasterization/raytracing of massive models visualization in shared memory supercomputers and desktop computers.
.Raytracing rendering for high quality rendering (montecarlo integration).
.Realtime high quality rendering with state of the art techniques.
·Data compression (lossless and lossy) (wavelet/fourier + aritmetic encoding).
.100% procedural content creation (textures, models, shading, sound).
·Chaotic dynamics, Complex systems, Brownian noise, Fractals.
·Voice and sound synthesis.




Programming


·Programming languajes: C, C++, ASM i80x86, Basic, and basic experience with C# (.NET), Java, ASM Z80, Delphi, Matlab
·Operative Systems: MS-DOS, Windows, Irix and Linux
·Graphic APIs: OpenGl, Multipipe OpenGL (MPK), Shader Model 2.0/3.0, Vesa 2.0


Deep C and assembly (Intel) knowledge, as well as low and high level optimitation techniques. Experience in massive parallel multiprocesor systems, and multi GPU systems.



Professional activity




1997-2002Telecommunications Engineering studies at "Universidad del País Vasco"
1997Volunteered for "ADSIS", a technical teaching center for problematic people.
1999-2002Scholarship holder at "Universidad del País Vasco", engineering faculty, Signal Processing and Communications department.
· Wavelet transform research applied to image compression.
· C and assembly programming for a realtime sixteen channel acquisition system, including a protected mode running driver for the WIN30PG acquisition card.
1998-2006 Fractal mathematics study and close collaboration with expert Prof. Barrallo in designing of new fractal algorithms. Realtime animation software design and implementation:
·1999,2000,2002Visual effects animation software implementation (C and assembly) for the international fractal exposition "The frontier between art and science"
·2000"Genesis" painting computation for the same exposition.
·20021st prize at "Primer Certamen Nacional de Imágenes Fractales" (First Spanish Contest on Fractal Images).
·2002"De la dinámica a la geometría en el conjunto de Mandelbrot" (From dynamics to geometry on the Mandelbrot Set) research work for "Ier Certámen Arquímedes del MEC" (First Arquimedes Contest of Spanish Education Ministry).
·20033st prize at "Segundo Certamen Nacional de Imágenes Fractales" (Second Spanish Contest on Fractal Images).
·2006"Enmpperaltta" painting computation for the international art exposition in honor of Benoit Mandelbrot at ICM 2006.
2003Worked at "Trabajos Catastrales, SA" (Pamplona, Spain) as Junior software engineer, in the R+D department. Designed and implemented colour image processing software fog GIS software (256 Megapixels orthopictures correlation and image matching).
2003-2006I'm currently working at VRcontext (Brussels, Belgium) as software engineer, in the R+D department designing algorithms for 3D graphics both in stereoschopic and multiprocessor and shared memory supercomputers as with desktop hardware. Also dedicated to photoreallistic rendering of natural phenomena, and realtime massive (multogigabute CAD) models visualization (realtime raytracing included). Software engineering.
1997-2005Realtime graphics programming and computer science awards:
·19991st prize, "intro 64kb" at EuskalParty 7 (Donostia, Spain)
·19991st prize, "demo" at ArroutadaParty 7 (Acoruña, Spain)
·20002nd prize, "intro 64kb" at GaliciaNetParty 1 (Santiago, Spain)
·20001st prize, "intro 64kb" at ArroutadaParty 8 (Acoruña, Spain)
·20011st prize, "intro 4kb" at EuskalParty 9 (Bilbao, Spain)
·20011st prize, "intro 4kb" at DurangoParty 2 (Durango, Spain)
·20011st prize, "intro 64kb" at BCNParty 1 (Barcelona, Spain)
·20021st prize, "intro 64kb" at BCNParty 2 (Barcelona, Spain)
·2003Nomination for "Breakthrough Performance" at Scene.org Awards 2002 (Germany)
·20031st prize, "demo" at BCNParty 3 (Barcelona, Spain)
·20041st prize, Silicon Graphics & ATI international demo contest
·20041st prize, "intro 64kb" at EuskalParty 12 (Barakaldo, Spain)
·2005Nomination for "Best 64kb intro" at Scene.org Awards 2004 (Germany)
·20051st prize, "intro 64kb" at EuskalParty 13 (Barakaldo, Spain)
·20061st prize, "intro 4kb" at BCNParty 6 (Barcelona, Spain)
·20074th prize, "intro 4kb" at Breakpoint 2007 (Bingen am Rhein, Germany)
·20072nd prize, "intro 4kb" at Assembly 2007 (Helsinki, Finland)
·20071st prize, "intro 4kb" at BCNParty 7 (Barcelona, Spain)
·20074th prize, "4k procedural gfx" at TUM (Karlsruhe-Durlach, Germany)
·2008Nomination for "Realtime Animation" at BitFilem Festival (Germany)
·20081st prize, "4k procedural gfx" at Breakpoint 2008 (Bingen am Rhein, Germany)
·20081st prize, "intro 4kb" at Inspire 2008 (Errenteria, Spain)
2006-200?Talks/Papers:
·2006"Mathematics in Movement", workshop at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid
·2006"Putting Theory into Practice", "Real Time Interactive Massive Model Visualization" tutorial at Eurographics 2006, Vienna
·2007"Tricks and techniques for rgba's past and future intros", at Breakpoiny 2007, Bingen am Rhein (Germany)
·2007"Putting Theory into Practice", "State-of-the-art in Massive Model Visualization" tutorial at Siggraph 2007, San Diego (USA).
·2007"Mesh encoding for 4k intros ", at BCNParty 2007, Barcelona (Spain)
·2007"Más allá de los cuadros", "40 años de geometría fractal", at Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastián (Spain)
·2008"Making graphics in 4 kilobytes", at Inspire 2008, Errenteria (Spain)