Image-based lighting practice by PBRT.

Wan-Chun (Alex) Ma received his PhD degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University in 2008. He did his thesis research at the graphics research group in Communication and Multimedia Lab, with Ming Ouhyoung, Yung-Yu Chuang, and Bing-Yu Chen. Prior to his graduation, He was a visiting researcher at Paul Debevec's Graphics Lab in Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California from 2005 to 2008.

His research interests include facial animation, reflectance modeling, computational photography, real-time rendering, and general purpose GPU techniques.

He has been discharged from Ministry of National Defense Symphony Orchestra after a ten-month mandatory military service (from September 2008 to July 2009).

• Publications
  
• Just for Fun
  
• Digital Emily Project