Chris Careaga
Research Assistant at Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Careaga is a PhD computer scientist and research assistant at Simon Fraser University's Computational Photography Lab, combining computer vision and graphics to model and estimate illumination for advanced photo editing. With 11 years of engineering experience and internships at Adobe and PNNL, he bridges rigorous research with practical tooling—having built domain-specific languages, web apps, and prototype IDEs for data exploration. His work focuses on making lighting estimation both accurate and usable, enabling complex image edits that were previously tedious or impossible. Chris holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Western Washington University and is pursuing a PhD at SFU, reflecting a steady progression from applied engineering to cutting-edge research. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who thinks like a scientist: he prototypes production-minded systems while pushing core algorithms forward.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Western Washington UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, 3.5, Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, 3.5 at Columbia Basin CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
malloc10
datasets10
heap10
heap-memory10
computer-vision10
memory-allocation9
machine-learning9
memory-management9
torchvision9
computer-graphics9
deep-learning8
text-based8
osdev8
pytorch8
image-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
compphoto/Intrinsic
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Repo for the paper "Intrinsic Image Decomposition via Ordinal Shading" (TOG 2023)
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 4 months
computer-graphicscomputer-visionimage-processingintrinsic-decompositioninverse-rendering
CCareaga/scum
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
A multi-tab, terminal-based text editor
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 9 months
linuxtextualterminaltuitext-based
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