Renjie Chen is a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. He received his bachelor’s degree and doctor’s degree from Zhejiang University in 2005 and 2010 respectively. From 2011 to 2015, he was employed as postdoctoral researcher at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. From 2015 to 2019, he was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany. He joined the University of Science and Technology of China in July 2019. His research field is computer graphics, and the research direction is geometric processing and modeling, computational geometry and glasses-free 3D display.

Computer graphics

The breakthrough of graphics processing hardware (GPU) has brought new development opportunities to many different research fields. Compared with traditional computing units (CPU), GPU has stronger computing power and is more suitable for computing-intensive applications. There are many problems in graphics and vision that are suitable for GPU acceleration. However, due to the GPU and CPU architectures are designed completely differently. Hence, many existing algorithms need to be redesigned to run efficiently on GPUs. Currently the problem faced by parallel geometric computation is to carefully conduct in-depth analysis of the related geometric problems and decompose the tasks into local sub-problems avoiding complex task scheduling and inter-thread communication, thereby achieving a viable solution for GPU parallel processing.

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