Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva

Research Scientist in Visual Computing

Hola! I'm a computer science researcher and engineer, specialized in computer graphics, scientific visualization, and other ways of lighting up pixels so that 3D digital worlds run fast and make sense.

Currently I work at the High-Performance Visualization Group of the CEMSE Division at KAUST (Saudi Arabia). Before that I was a scientist at CRS4 (Italy) and at the University of A Coruña (Spain).

Welcome to my website! Feel free to contact me if anything here interests you :)

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Latest news

• Oct 2026

  Our US patent application AI-based and LIDAR-based image processing pipeline for immersive editing and collaborative design, with the Hamad Bin Khalifa University team, has been published (US 2026/0154782 A1, filed in November 2025).

• Oct 2026

  Our paper HGCalVis received the Scientific Excellence award at Web3D 2026 in Doha, Qatar. Congratulations to Waad and all the co-authors!

• Oct 2026

  X3D Copilot, our browser-based X3D editor with an AI co-author, won two awards at the Web3D 2026 competitions: Web3D/Metaverse Tool of the Year and first prize in the AI & Web3D Innovation Competition.

• Oct 2026

  Two papers at Web3D 2026: HGCalVis, a web-based visualization of CERN’s HGCal particle showers, and PanoGS, high-resolution Gaussian splatting from sparse panoramic images.

• Jun 2026

  Our patent application “AI-based and LiDAR-based image processing pipeline for immersive editing and collaborative design” (US 2026/0154782 A1) has been published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, together with colleagues from HBKU and Qatar University.

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