Nikolaus Binder ![](/sites/default/files/person/Binder2_0.png) Nikolaus Binder is a senior research scientist at NVIDIA. He joined NVIDIA Research in 2011. Before joining NVIDIA he received his MS degree in computer science from the University of Ulm, Germany, helped planning and implementing several government funded projects for two companies, maintained their IT infrastructure, and worked for mental images as a research consultant. His research, publications, and presentations are focused on quasi-Monte Carlo methods, photorealistic image synthesis, ray tracing, and rending algorithms with a strong emphasis on the underlying mathematical and algorithmic structure. Research Area(s) [Algorithms and Numerical Methods](/index.php/research-area/algorithms) [Computer Graphics](/index.php/research-area/computer-graphics) [High Performance Computing](/index.php/research-area/high-performance-computing) [Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/index.php/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence) [Real-Time Rendering](/index.php/research-area/real-time-rendering) Main Field of Interest [Computer Graphics](/index.php/research-area/computer-graphics) ### Publications ### 2023 [Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling](/index.php/publication/2023-12_sionna-rt-differentiable-ray-tracing-radio-propagation-modeling) [Jakob Hoydis](/index.php/person/jakob-hoydis), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/index.php/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Sebastian Cammerer](/index.php/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Merlin Nimier-David](/index.php/person/merlin-nimier-david), [Nikolaus Binder](/index.php/person/nikolaus-binder), [Guillermo Marcus](/index.php/person/guillermo-marcus), [Alex Keller](/index.php/person/alex-keller) [IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2023](https://globecom2023.ieee-globecom.org/) ### 2022 [GPU-Accelerated Machine Learning in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access](/publication/2022-08_gpu-accelerated-machine-learning-non-orthogonal-multiple-access) Daniel Schäufele, [Guillermo Marcus](/person/guillermo-marcus), [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), Matthias Mehlhose, [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller), Slawomir Stańczak [2022 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9909865) [GPU-Accelerated Partially Linear Multiuser Detection for 5G and Beyond URLLC Systems](/publication/2022-06_gpu-accelerated-partially-linear-multiuser-detection-5g-and-beyond-urllc) Matthias Mehlhose, [Guillermo Marcus](/person/guillermo-marcus), Daniel Schäufele, Daniyal Amir Awan, [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), Martin Kasparick, Renato L. 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Cavalcante, Sławomir Stanćzak , [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [IEEE Access](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9810242) [Sionna: An Open-Source Library for Next-Generation Physical Layer Research](/publication/2022-03_sionna-open-source-library-next-generation-physical-layer-research) [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), Avinash Vem, [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Guillermo Marcus](/person/guillermo-marcus), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.11854.pdf) ### 2019 [A Fast and Robust Method for Avoiding Self-Intersection](/publication/2019-03_fast-and-robust-method-avoiding-self-intersection) Carsten Wächter, [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder) [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/) [Massively Parallel Path Space Filtering](/index.php/publication/2019-02_massively-parallel-path-space-filtering) [Nikolaus Binder](/index.php/person/nikolaus-binder), Sascha Fricke, [Alex Keller](/index.php/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05942?context=cs) [Massively Parallel Construction of Radix Tree Forests for the Efficient Sampling of Discrete Probability Distributions](/publication/2019-01_massively-parallel-construction-radix-tree-forests-efficient-sampling-discrete) [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05423) ### 2018 [Fast, High Precision Ray/Fiber Intersection using Tight, Disjoint Bounding Volumes](/publication/2018-11_fast-high-precision-rayfiber-intersection-using-tight-disjoint-bounding-volumes) [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03374) [Massively Parallel Stackless Ray Tracing of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces](/publication/2018-11_massively-parallel-stackless-ray-tracing-catmull-clark-subdivision-surfaces) [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03510) ### 2016 [GI next: global illumination for production rendering on GPUs](/publication/2016-07_gi-next-global-illumination-production-rendering-gpus) Enzo Catalano, Rajko Yasui-Schöffel , Ken Dahm, [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Talks](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2897839.2927452) [Efficient stackless hierarchy traversal on GPUs with backtracking in constant time](/publication/2016-06_efficient-stackless-hierarchy-traversal-gpus-backtracking-constant-time) [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [Proceedings of High Performance Graphics](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2977336.2977343) ### 2015 [Stackless ray tracing of patches from feature-adaptive subdivision on GPUs](/publication/2015-07_stackless-ray-tracing-patches-feature-adaptive-subdivision-gpus) [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Talks](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2775280.2792551) ### 2014 [Path space filtering](/publication/2014-10_path-space-filtering) [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller), Ken Dahm, [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder) [ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Talks](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2614106.2614149) [Path space similarity determined by Fourier histogram descriptors](/publication/2014-07_path-space-similarity-determined-fourier-histogram-descriptors) Pascal Gautron, Marc Droske, Carsten Wächter, Lutz Kettner, [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller), [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), Ken Dahm [ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Talks](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2614106.2614117) ### 2013 [Deterministic Consistent Density Estimation for Light Transport Simulation](/publication/2013-11_deterministic-consistent-density-estimation-light-transport-simulation) [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller), [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder) [Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2012](http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41095-6_23)