Our paper HGCalVis received the Scientific Excellence award at Web3D 2026 in Doha, Qatar. Congratulations to Waad and all the co-authors!
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.
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.
Serving as tutorials chair of Web3D 2026 and program chair of STAG 2026.
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.
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”.
Serving this year again on several International Program Committees: PacificVIS 2026, Digital Heritage 2025, STAG 2025, and CEIG 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!
Serving for the first time as a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of IEEE VIS 2025.
Thrilled to have participated in the Innovation Week of RDIA (Research, Development and Innovation Authority of Saudi Arabia), presenting our collaboration with CERN.
Serving as a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of PacificVIS 2025.
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.
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).
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! :)
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).
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!
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.
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.
Our paper on Probabilistic filtering of large, multidimensional data has been accepted at the IEEE VIS 2022 conference. See you in Oklahoma City (USA)!
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.
I’ll be attending both EuroVis (Rome) and SIGGRAPH (Vancouver). Hope to see you around!
Uploaded a simple clone of Shadertoy I made some time ago to quickly experiment with shaders: The GLSL Playground.
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.
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.
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!
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!