Oscar Dadfar
Research Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Dadfar is a research engineer and computational artist with eight years of experience building tools that let non‑artists create animation and visual content. At Adobe he shipped production features—like a 5x faster vector mask tracker and Smart Masking in Premiere Pro—and produced widely seen wearable animations showcased at Adobe MAX and New York Fashion Week. He teaches computer graphics and visual computing at Carnegie Mellon, blending academic rigor with product impact. His background spans internships at Apple and earlier full‑stack and motion‑graphics roles, reflecting a rare mix of low‑level rendering, video pipeline engineering, and creative direction. Unusually, he focuses on democratizing expressive tools for users without traditional art skills, turning research prototypes into polished, productionized tooling.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityVisiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (14)
rasterizer7
editing6
path-tracing6
rendering6
animation5
computer-graphics5
raytracing5
mesh5
3d-graphics4
webgl4
3d-printing4
opengl4
spring2
jersey1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cardadfar/Personal-Website
Dec 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:179 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
cardadfar/stuco_webdev_website
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:112 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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