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.