Brian Budge Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leading some of the team's work in split rendering algorithms, and managing a small number of folks. Also lead for the dispenso task parallelism library: https://github.com/facebookincubator/dispenso

Reality Labs Research brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of virtual and augmented reality, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today. And just as personal computers have done over the past 45 years, AR and VR will ultimately change everything about how we work, play, and connect. ​​We are developing all the technologies needed to enable breakthrough AR glasses and VR headsets, including optics and displays, computer vision, audio, graphics, brain-computer interface, haptic interaction, eye/hand/face/body tracking, perception science, and true telepresence. Some of those will advance much faster than others, but they all need to happen to enable AR and VR that are so compelling that they become an integral part of our lives.​I first worked in the Surreal machine perception group, and have contributed to efforts leading to the team's Replica work. See linked blog post.I am currently leading a group in the FRL Graphics Research team, where our primary mission is researching how to enable quality graphics for future AR devices.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I was a tech lead on Google Clips, where I helped lead a team that used machine learning to ensure that interesting content reaches the user while boring content is filtered out. I also managed a small handful of talented individuals who worked on this problem.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I was a tech lead for part of the core infrastructure at Google. Have a look at the wired magazine article about "Borg"​ for a taste. A recent paper has more info: "Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg"

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I did ray tracing R&D, and wrote the majority of the first version of our cloud renderer from scratch, and co-developed further iterations to the renderer, including multi-node clustered rendering. I also helped with design decisions for the wider service. In addition to working in the core renderer, I designed the majority of the distributed data pipeline. I filed two patents while at Autodesk.

Davis, California, Us

Grad student

Santa Clara, California, Us

Student Internship

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Worked 3 summer internships at NVIDIA. The work ranged from testing the texture unit of the geforce 6800 to architecting a new and improved CgFX to assisting in the development of the drivers for the new CUDA programming language/tools. I filed a patent while working on the CUDA team.

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

worked on visualization research for two summers

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

I researched NPR techniques for providing architectural rendering with different levels of confidence. I also worked on a couple of papers related to photorealistic rendering:http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bcbudge/deep/research/nested_dielectrics.pdfandhttp://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bcbudge/deep/research/irisSynthesis.pdf

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

I wrote graphical database applications

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Computer Graphics

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

High School