San Jose

Sunil Hadap
Research Manager

Apart from my own research contribution, I am a research manager in ATL. Our team focuses on the use of high-performance computing, available in workstations and future desktops, to develop design paradigms and user experiences of the future. Some specific topics that the group focuses on are:

Animation — Inverse Kinematics, Skinning, Articulated Rigid Bodies, Motion Editing and Retargeting, Autonomous Agents
Simulation — Fluid Simulation, Paint Effects, Rigid Bodies, Deformable Models & Cloth
Computational Imaging — PDEs for Image Enhancement, Super-resolution, Inverse Problems in Image Processing, Deblurring and Defocus, Lighting Estimation
Multi-CPU and GPU computations, Parallel Algorithms, Scheduling and Cache Performance
Computational Displays, Multi-modal User Experience

My current research interests are Lattice Boltzmann Computing, Visco-elastic Fluids, Rigid Bodies, Paint Effects, Upsampling, Denoising, Defocus, Lighting Estimation.

I will be offering two internships during the summer of 2008:

Developing rigid body solver
Propose me a fancy research topic

You must have wondered how they did the hair in "Shrek The Third" and the foliage in "Madagascar". Before joining Adobe, I worked at PDI/DreamWorks for four years (2003-2006) developing some cool special effects and character dynamics technologies — strand & hair dynamics, rigid bodies, particles and fluids.

I finished my PhD from MIRALab, University of Geneva in 2003.

projects

Fluid Dynamics for Interactive Design

Publications

Sunil Hadap, "Oriented Strands - dynamics of stiff multi-body system", ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2006
Sunil Hadap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, "Rendering Photo-realistic Hair using Graphics Hardware", Technical Report, 2003
Sunil Hadap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, "Modeling Dynamic Hair as a Continuum", Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 20, Issue 3, Eurographics 2001 Proceedings, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 2001
Sunil Hadap and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. "Interactive Hair Styler based on Fluid Flow", Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation'2000, Interlaken 2000
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Sunil Hadap, Prem Kalra. "State of the Art in Hair Simulation", International Workshop on Human Modeling and Animation, Seoul, Korea, June 28—29, 2000
Sunil Hadap, Endre Bangarter and Pascal Volino and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. "Animating Wrinkles on Clothes", IEEE Visualization '99, San Francisco 1999
Shrijeet Mukherjee, Manoj Apte, Amitay Isaacs, Sunil Hadap and Dr G R Shevare. "MultiBlock Grid Generation for Structured Grids", 5th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation for Computational Fluid Simulation, April, 1996

Courses

Organizer — "Strands and Hair: Modeling, Animation, and Rendering", course 33, SIGGRAPH 2007
Organizer — "Introduction to Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics", course 2, SIGGRAPH 2005
Organizer — "Collision Detection and Proximity Queries", course 14, SIGGRAPH 2004
Presenter — "Photorealistic Hair Modeling, Animation, and Rendering", course 9, SIGGRAPH 2004
Presenter — "Photorealistic Hair Modeling, Animation, and Rendering", course 34, SIGGRAPH 2003

Thesis

Sunil Hadap, "Hair Simulation", PhD Dissertation, 2003
Sunil Hadap, "Design of Robotics Teaching Aid", Master of Design Thesis, 1995
Sunil Hadap, "Design of Weather Data Collection Platform", Master of Design Thesis, 1995
Sunil Hadap, "Multi-block Grid Generation Toolkit", Bachelor of Technology Thesis, 1993