Regular biography
Wenzel Jakob is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His research interests include image synthesis, material appearance modeling, and computer graphics. He teaches courses such as Advanced Computer Graphics (CS-440) and Numerical Methods for Visual Computing and ML (CS-328). Jakob is also involved in PhD supervision and holds multiple administrative roles within the university, including membership in the doctoral program committee for the Computer Science and Communications doctoral program. His work focuses on creating realistic images through computational simulation and numerical methods.
Scholar-generated biography
Wenzel Jakob is a researcher specializing in differentiable rendering, inverse rendering, material appearance modeling, and computer graphics. His work focuses on developing advanced rendering techniques and frameworks that enable efficient and accurate simulation of light-material interactions. Jakob has contributed to the creation of the Mitsuba Renderer and Mitsuba 3, which are widely used in research and industry. His research includes methods for differentiable rendering, radiative transfer, and the modeling of complex material properties. He has also explored inverse rendering techniques for geometry and material acquisition, emphasizing the use of probabilistic and optimization-based approaches.