Nicholas Polys
PhD, Director Of Visual Computing, Affiliate Professor Of Computer Science
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Polys is Director of Visual Computing at Virginia Tech and an Affiliate Professor of Computer Science who has built interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems since 1997, bridging visualization, virtual environments, and human perception. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech for work on perceptual cues in information-rich virtual environments and began his career creating audio, visual, and 3D web assets in the early WWW era. A long-standing leader in standards and community governance, he co-authored the ISO X3D standard and serves on the Web3D Consortium board, including terms as President and chair of its User Interface Working Group. Based in Blacksburg, he blends academic research with practical system delivery and brings a rare combination of cognitive-science grounding and hands-on visual computing engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Virginia TechBA, Cognitive Science, BA, Cognitive Science at Vassar College
Github Skills (54)
3d-reconstruction10
mesh10
3d-models10
collada10
asset-pipeline10
x3dom10
point-cloud10
mesh-processing10
data-structure9
gltf9
openscad9
javascript9
ifc9
webgl9
threejs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
npolys/Las2X3D
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
vtcoders/AntennaRange
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Supports a Web-based portal to operate and analyze antenna measurements
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 8 months
operatemeasurementsweb-basedportalantenna
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