I am an R&D Software Engineer. I was born in Mérida, Venezuela. I got a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2012, and a degree in Systems Engineer degree from the Universidad de Los Andes in 2007.
I worked as a Research Assistant at the UH CGIM Lab, and as a Teaching Assistant at the UH Department of CS, until December 2013. My advisor at UH was Dr. Zhigang Deng. My research interests include Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, GPU Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Since March 2014, I work at HERE Technologies (previously known as Nokia Maps, and Navteq before that), where I've done augmented reality for pedestrian navigation, map rendering, navigation systems for fancy cars, and high-definition maps for autonomous driving.
GPU-Accelerated Interactive Visualization and Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions. M. Rincón-Nigro, N.V. Navkar, N.V. Tsekos, Z. Deng. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jan/Feb 2014, pp. 14-23.
A Text-Driven Conversational Avatar Interface for Instant Messaging on Mobile Devices.
M. Rincón-Nigro, Z. Deng.
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS), 43(2), May 2013, pp. 328-332.
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Cost-based Workload Balancing for Ray Tracing on Multi-GPU Systems. M. Rincón-Nigro, Z. Deng. ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Research Poster, Anaheim, CA, July 2013.
Automatic Code Generation from Finite State Machines. M. Rincón-Nigro, J. Aguilar-Castro, F. Hidrobo-Torres. Computación y Sistemas, 14(4), April 2011, pp. 405-421. (In Spanish)
Improving Energy-Efficiency of General-Purpose GPU Computing Through Statistical Power Consumption Modeling. X. Ma, M. Rincón-Nigro, Z. Deng. University of Houston. Technical Report, 2011.
In 2010, I got a copy of the book Beyond Photography: The Digital Darkroom by Gerard J. Holzmann. I wrote an interpreter of image transformations based on the one described in the book.
new[x, y] = old[rect(1.5 * r ** 2 / R, a)]
The source code in Python for this is available here Github repos. Check out the catalog of transformations.