Philippe Weier
Research Intern at Universität des Saarlandes
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilippe Weier is a research-focused computer graphics engineer and PhD student at Saarland University with 11 years of experience advancing appearance modelling, spectral rendering, and differentiable rendering. He has applied his expertise across industry research labs—Weta Digital, Unity Labs, Intel, Adobe, Google—and is currently a Research Intern at Meta, bringing production-minded improvements to light transport and rendering performance. His work spans the bridge between offline and real-time rendering, including contributions to Manuka at Weta and multi-layered material models at Unity. Trained at EPFL and with a background from Universidad de Granada, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on optimization in production renderers, often focusing on practical speedups for complex light transport algorithms. An uncommon strength is his consistent movement between cutting-edge research and studio-scale engineering, enabling both novel algorithms and deployable renderer improvements.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Computer Science Engineering, Images, signals and processing, Master in Computer Science Engineering, Images, signals and processing at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor in Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
Github Skills (78)
inverse10
egui10
matrix10
rendering10
mlp10
renderer10
imgui9
api9
rust9
openframeworks9
computer-graphics9
game-development9
algebra9
linear-algebra9
immediate-mode9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WeiPhil/Procaryota
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 7 pushes in 1 day
WeiPhil/LotrArmyCompanion
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
A non-official companion web application for the table-top game Lord of the Rings ©GamesWorkshop
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 49 pushes in 4 months
lord-of-the-ringsweb-applicationcompanionringsnon-official
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