Presenter

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Chris Cummings
NVIDIA
Biography
Chris Cummings is a Senior Rendering Engineer at NVIDIA Research and leads the SlangPy project with an emphasis on neural shading platform technology. Prior to NVIDIA, he spent 20+ years in the games industry, including roles at Media Molecule and Criterion Games, and as CTO & Director at Future Tech Labs.
Presentations
Technical Paper
Toward Richer Material Generation via Procedural Data Enhancement
9:30am - 9:40am PDT Tuesday, 21 July 2026 Room 403 A
Research & Education
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Generative AI
Geometry
Modeling
Rendering
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Technical Paper
Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks
2:20pm - 2:30pm PDT Wednesday, 22 July 2026 Room 408 A
Research & Education
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Lighting
Modeling
Real-Time
Rendering
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Course
An Introduction to Neural Shading
9:00am - 12:15pm PDT Sunday, 19 July 2026 Room 515 A
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Research & Education
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Games
Math Foundations and Theory
Rendering
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