Before joining MSRA, I received my Ph.D degree in computer science from Zhejiang University in March, 2007. I also hold a Master's degree in mechanical engineering and a Bachelor's degree in information engineering, both from Zhejiang University. My research interests include real-time rendering of soft shadows and participating media, spherical harmonics for real-time rendering, and real-time global illumination on GPUs. My Ph.D thesis (in Chinese, with English abstract) is about precomputation method in interactive global illumination. During the past several years, I've been really fortunate to work with ZHOU Kun, John Snyder, HUA Wei, HOU Qiming, SUN Xin, GUO Baining, BAO Hujun, WANG Rui(ZJU), Steve Lin, Peter-Pike Sloan, LIU Xinguo, Harry Shum and CHEN Lu on the interesting graphics projects below. That's really a lot of fun.
- Xin Sun, Qiming Hou, Zhong Ren, Kun Zhou, and Baining Guo, Radiance Transfer Biclustering for Real-time All-frequency Bi-scale Rendering, in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION & COMPUTER GRAPHICS, IEEE Computer Society, 2010
- Kun Zhou, Qiming Hou, Zhong Ren, Minmin Gong, Xin Sun, and Baining Guo, RenderAnts: Interactive Reyes Rendering on GPUs, in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1 December 2009
- Kun Zhou, Zhong Ren, Stephen Lin, Hujun Bao, Baining Guo, and Heung-Yeung Shum, Real-time smoke rendering using compensated ray marching, in ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 36, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 August 2008
- Zhong Ren, Kun Zhou, Stephen Lin, and Baining Guo, Gradient-based Interpolation and Sampling for Real-time Rendering of Inhomogeneous, Single-scattering Media, in Computer Graphics Forum, no. 7, pp. 1945–1953, 1 July 2008
- Zhong Ren, Rui Wang, John Snyder, Kun Zhou, Xinguo Liu, Bo Sun, Peter-Pike Sloan, Hujun Bao, Qunsheng Peng, and Baining Guo, Real-time soft shadows in dynamic scenes using spherical harmonic exponentiation, in ACM Transaction on Graphics, pp. 977–986, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 August 2006
Contact Information: renzhong@microsoft.com
