Chris Wyman
Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Wyman is a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA with over a decade of experience advancing real-time interactive rendering through GPU-driven algorithms and hardware co-design. He has an academic pedigree (PhD, University of Utah) and a strong record of translating long-term graphics research into production technologies such as RTXDI and GameWorks. His work spans many-light ray tracing, stochastic rasterization, foveated VR rendering, and efficient shadow and alpha techniques, and he has published 20+ first-author papers while mentoring students who now work across film, gaming, aerospace, and defense. Known for bridging deep theory with pragmatic implementation, he has also influenced hardware directions by designing algorithms that anticipate future GPU capabilities. Based in Redmond, WA, he remains an active community contributor through journal editorial roles, conference organization, and extensive peer review.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (13)
rendering9
rendering-3d-graphics9
renderer9
directx8
opengl8
rtx7
webgl7
rendering-engine7
ray5
raytracing4
adam3
optix2
vulkan1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chris-wyman/GettingStartedWithRTXRayTracing
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Getting Started with RTX Ray Tracing
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ray-tracingrtxraytracing
NVIDIAGameWorks/GettingStartedWithRTXRayTracing
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Getting Started with RTX Ray Tracing
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
ray-tracingrtxraytracing
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