Within Autodesk Research, there are five domain groups focused on User Interface research, Environmental & Ergonomics research, Simulation & Graphics research, Nanotechnology, and High Performance Computing research. In addition, an important part of Autodesk Research is our Research Transfer group that bridges the gap between Research and Development. Together, our six groups form a team of dedicated world-class professional research scientists and software developers working on some of the most interesting and challenging research topics of our time.
Azam Khan
The Environment & Ergonomics Research Group focuses on how to minimize the impact of the built environment on the natural environment. Humans are the bridge between these two worlds and it is human activity that has created every environmental problem from factory farms destroying local environments to factory cities destroying global environments.
Francesco Iorio
The High Performance Computing Research Group is focused experimenting with new multiprocessing paradigms to improve performance and scalability of software applications. From embedded systems to cloud computing, from bleeding-edge accelerators and hybrid computing infrastructures to large parallel systems, the group researches and evaluates computing systems, data networks and their interaction.
Carlos Olguin
Nanotechnology, the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale, is an emerging meta-field growing at an accelerated pace. Almost every industry is or will be affected by nanotechnology in a potentially radical way. Nanotechnology will ultimately bring a new age in humanity’s ability to design and make things.
Thomas White
At Autodesk Research, we believe in making a difference. We are not satisfied with creating abstract solutions locked away in a journal publication. Our researchers are proud to have a dedicated team of professionals to help move research outcomes from their prototypes and publications into real products. We gain great satisfaction from helping people to solve their problems faster, better, and more intuitively.
Jos Stam
Our group has a long history of developing advanced natural phenomena simulation. Our research has resulted in a real-time fluids solver, an advanced cloth solver and self-affecting particle system, all available in Maya.
George Fitzmaurice
The User Interface Research Group is focused on advancing the field of human-computer interaction research both at the hardware and software levels. We are constantly exploring new ways to make the software which we work with easier to learn, friendlier to use, and more efficient. Our interests lie in both seeking novel yet immediately applicable solutions to the user interface challenges existing in today's software applications, and also rethinking the underlying concepts for which today's user interfaces are designed, by exploring new paradigms which could shape the future generation of application user interfaces.
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