Hugues Hoppe
Computer Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHugues Hoppe is a computer scientist with 11 years of recent experience and a long research career spanning academia and industry, including principal roles at Google and Microsoft Research. He specializes in computer graphics, geometry processing, geometric modeling, and computer vision, and has driven both foundational research (e.g., Poisson surface reconstruction) and product-grade features across graphics and imaging pipelines. At Google he worked on compression, transmission, and rendering for Project Starline, and at Microsoft Research his work translated into widely used tools and licenses (Weta, Disney) and contributions to DirectX, Softimage, Kinect, and Mixed Reality Capture. He maintains a long-running C++ mesh-processing codebase reflecting SIGGRAPH-era research, evidencing hands-on systems and backend development. An editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics, he pairs deep theoretical insight with pragmatic engineering that ships at scale. Based in Seattle, he brings rare breadth from core algorithms to production multimedia systems.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
English, French
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
opengl9
3d-graphics9
video-processing8
mesh-processing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hhoppe/Mesh-processing-library
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
C++ libraries and programs demonstrating mesh processing research published in ACM SIGGRAPH (1992-2003)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:248 commits, 1 PR, 492 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugues's commits primarily involve changes to C++ code within the `libHh` and `G3dOGL` directories. These changes include code improvements, bug fixes, and the introduction of new functionality, such as the `MeshRoot`, changes related to framerate controls, and features related to texture management in video playback. The user also worked on enhancing the `VideoViewer` program, making improvements to video display and playback.
acmmeshtechniquescppc-library
hhoppe/advent-of-code-hhoppe
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:32 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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