Francis Williams Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Working on 3D deep learning research at Google Brain

Houston, Texas, Us

* Researched designed and implemented distributed file system to run on a simulated memristor computer with ∼10 TiB of DRAM connected to hundreds of CPUs with the goal of evaluating performance of file workloads in persistent memory computing environment* Independently designed software architecture by reading existing file system papers and source code* Designed and implemented directory system, file descriptor management system, journal, and preliminary file data structures* Delivered functional prototype with demo which compiled source code stored in the file system using Make* Mentored junior engineering intern throughout project

Corvallis, Or, Us

* In collaboration with Dr. Eugene Zhang, researched and developed a correct and efficient algorithm to compute photorealistic lighting in 3D scenes containing multiple interacting mirror surfaces* Formulated theory to model lighting conditions due to mirrors by understanding how mirrors change the topology of the underlying path space of a scene* Generated results demonstrating the quality of our method compared to existing techniques* Designed and developed algorithm as a modification of POV-Ray, an existing open source ray tracer* Independently learned about many new subjects to conduct research, including group theory, topology, and photorealistic rendering* Currently preparing SIGGRAPH 2016 paper after continued work on this project past the end ofthe research assistantship

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

* Independently developed cross platform graphics framework for rendering 3D scans of products* The framework supported model and image based rendering techniques with the ability to easilyadd new rendering modes* The framework could be deployed to Linux, Windows, Android, iOS and any WebGL compatiblebrowser from a single C++ code-base using emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten)

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

* Designed, improved and debugged real time vision based orientation tracking algorithms* Developed Android multimedia framework to decode and playback synchronized video data into Augmented Reality engine* Developed Unity3D plugin to stream video data to a texture on Android* Built series of Unity3D plug-ins to develop Augmented Reality applications in Unity

Redwood City, Ca, Us

* Designed and implemented publish/subscribe system for IMVU photo-stream feature* Built system using using PHP and Redis to queue messages* Scaled system to handle over 1 million users from a single machine

* Built user-interface components in IMVU client using Mozilla Gecko* Created node.js server for multi-player scripting in IMVU client* Developed Android port of IMVU-to-go mobile application* Added features to PHP payment framework

Kitchener, Ontario, Ca

* Developed Android applications to demonstrate features of networking software for transitioning TCP connections between multiple hardware interfaces* Ported UNIX socket code to Windows socket API* Automated code testing using Bash and python

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Honors Software Engineering

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates