I'm a joint PhD student at ETH Zurich and Disney Research, supervised by Markus Gross and Marios Papas. I earned my Master's degree in 2023 from ETH Zurich, and my Bachelor's degree in 2020 from the University of Valencia.
From an early age, I've been fascinated by the technical and creative sides of filmmaking, especially animation. My research focuses on computer graphics, physically-based rendering and simulation, and how these areas connect with machine learning and generative models.
We train small, scene-specific neural networks with a decoupled rendering algorithm to enable interactive relighting and art-directed light edits of complex production scenes.
We repurpose latent diffusion models to generate high-quality, complex, multi-view optical illusions such as anamorphoses.
We develop a user-friendly application that simplifies the setup of mechanobiology simulations through a comprehensive graphical interface.
We explore new schemes for fluid simulation in order to improve energy and vorticity preservation capabilities. In particular, we propose novel Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks based on the vorticity-streamfunction and the impulse formulations.
We implement advanced features on top of an educational physically-based path tracer, such as volumetric rendering with ratio tracking, principled BSDFs and lens-based camera models.
We develop a framework that brings Virtual Reality headsets to existing simulation environments for crane and construction training. We focus on a novel hand-detection interface that lets users operate the machinery with both real and virtual controllers.