News
2026
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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).
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Oct 2026
Our paper HGCalVis received the Scientific Excellence award at Web3D 2026 in Doha, Qatar. Congratulations to Waad and all the co-authors!
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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.
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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.
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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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Mar 2026
Serving as Tutorials Chair of Web3D 2026 and Program Chair of STAG 2026.
2025
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Sep 2025
I am delighted to have been selected to join the Steering Committee of the Eurographics Working Group on Graphics and Cultural Heritage alongside such distinguished members.
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Sep 2025
The paper in collaboration with CRS4 with title “A Practical Inverse Rendering Strategy for Enhanced Albedo Estimation for Cultural Heritage Model Reconstruction” has been accepted at the Digital Heritage 2025 conference. I will attend in Siena (Italy) and chair the session “Digital Heritage Research: History, Archeology, and Virtual Reconstruction”.
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Jun 2025
KAUST has recognized my achievements and performance by upgrading my contract to Research Scientist level R4.
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Jun 2025
Serving this year again on several International Program Committees: PacificVIS 2026, Digital Heritage 2025, STAG 2025, and CEIG 2025.
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Apr 2025
Our work Lactea, for real-time, web-based, spectrum-preserving visualization of the GAIA star catalog has been accepted as a full paper at EuroVis 2025. Looking forward to presenting it in Luxembourg!
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Apr 2025
Serving for the first time as a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of IEEE VIS 2025.
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Feb 2025
Thrilled to have participated in the Innovation Week of RDIA (Research, Development and Innovation Authority of Saudi Arabia), presenting our collaboration with CERN.
2024
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Sep 2024
Serving as a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of PacificVIS 2025.
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Jul 2024
I have been visiting CERN’s CMS as part of our collaboration on visualizing simulations of their new High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCal), which will be installed in the CMS detector for the next major upgrade.
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Apr 2024
This year I will serve as a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of the following conferences: CGI’24 (Geneva, Switzerland), GCH’24 (Darmstadt, Germany), GRAPP’24 (Rome, Italy), ACM Web3D’24 (Guimarães, Portugal) and CEIG’24 (A Coruña, Spain).
2023
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Oct 2023
We presented our latest paper “PanoVerse: automatic generation of stereoscopic environments from single indoor panoramic images for Metaverse applications” at ACM SIGGRAPH Web3D 2023 (San Sebastián, Spain), which received the Honorable Mention award of the conference. Congratulations to all the co-authors! :)
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Apr 2023
Our paper “Doppler Volume Rendering: A Dynamic, Piecewise Linear Spectral Representation for Visualizing Astrophysics Simulations” has been accepted at the EuroVis 2023 conference! See you in Leipzig (Germany).
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Feb 2023
Very happy to serve as program co-chair this year for ACM SIGGRAPH Web3D 2023. It will be hosted by Vicomtech in the wonderful city of San Sebastián (Spain). Let’s make an awesome conference!
2022
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Dec 2022
I’ve been invited to be a member of the Program Committee of the Conferencia Española de Informática Gráfica (Spanish Conference of Computer Graphics), whose 2023 edition (CEIG’23) will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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Sep 2022
I’ve been invited to be a member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Visualization and Computer-Human Interaction, whose 2022 edition (VisCHI’22) will be held in Doha, Qatar.
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Aug 2022
Our paper on Probabilistic filtering of large, multidimensional data has been accepted at the IEEE VIS 2022 conference. See you in Oklahoma City (USA)!
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Aug 2022
I’ve been invited to be a member of the Program Committee of the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, whose 2022 edition (GCH’22) will be held at TU Delft, the Netherlands.
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Mar 2022
Uploaded a simple clone of Shadertoy I made some time ago to quickly experiment with shaders: The GLSL Playground.
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Mar 2022
I’ve been promoted to Research Scientist in the Visual Computing Center within the High-Performance Visualization Group at KAUST, such an exciting adventure! My gratitude to Prof. Markus Hadwiger and all my colleagues.
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Mar 2022
Our latest work on MLICs, the product of a collaboration between CRS4 and KAUST, has been selected as the cover of the international journal “The Visual Computer” for its 2022 issues.
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Jan 2022
Finally, this new website has been released! I’ll keep adding more and more content. I designed it from scratch using Jekyll and Bootstrap, and it is hosted on GitHub Pages; thanks to all these projects!
2021
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Dec 2021
I am co-editing a research topic for the journal Frontiers in Virtual Reality, called: “Acquiring, exploring and spreading Cultural Heritage with immersive technologies”, with the aim of bridging the CH domain and VR/AR technologies. The call for papers for the special journal issue is open!