Profile
Date / Place of birth 1984 / Melbourne, Australia
Citizenship Australian, British
Languages English, proficiency in German
Home page www.huwbowles.com
Email huw d0t bowles @t gmail d0t com
Research / Work Experience

September 2011 - present
West Pier Studio
Director and Co-founder

September 2010 - September 2011
Black Rock Studio
Research Scientist

March 2010 - August 2010
Black Rock Studio
Master's Thesis Work (see publications)

June 2009 - January 2010
Disney Research Zürich
Research Intern
Worked on Programmable Motion Effects project (see publications)

Autumn semester 2008
ETH Zurich - Applied Geometry Group
Semester Thesis: Parallel kd-tree Construction for Dynamic Geometry

December 2005 - February 2010
ALSTOM Power (Switzerland)
Software Engineer
Working in various roles ranging from R&D to on-site project execution

Publications

Iterative Image Warping
H. Bowles, K. Mitchell, R. Sumner, J. Moore, M. Gross
Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2012 (Cagliari, Italy)

Optimized Stereoscopic Camera Control (OSCAM) for Interactive 3D
T. Oskam, A. Hornung, H. Bowles, K. Mitchell, M. Gross
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 (Hong Kong)

Surround Haptics: Sending Shivers Down Your Spine
A. Israr, I. Poupyrev, C. Ioffreda, J. Cox, N. Gouveia, H. Bowles, A. Brakis, B. Knight, K. Mitchell, T. Williams Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 (Vancouver, Canada), Emerging Technologies

Programmable Motion Effects
J. Schmid, R. Sumner, H. Bowles, M. Gross
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 (Los Angeles, USA)

Efficient Real-Time Stereoscopic 3D Rendering
H. Bowles
Master's Thesis, ETH Zurich, 2010.

Education

2008 - 2010
Master of Science in Computer Science (MSc CS), Visual Computing specialization
ETH Zurich

2003 - 2005
Bachelor of Computer Science, focus in Computer Graphics and Mathematics
University of Melbourne

Awards

2009 ETH - Jury Award for Game Programming Laboratory course project (see portfolio)
2002 Bacchus Marsh College - Dux of the School Award
2002 Bacchus Marsh College - Mathematics Award

Skills / Proficiencies

Software Development
Proficient in C++, C, C#, Java, JavaScript, some experience with Python, Scala, Haskell.

Web Development
HTML5, PHP, Kohana, XSL.

Other Tools / APIs
Unity, DirectX, OpenGL, OpenMP, Intel TBB, XNA, Photoshop, Maya.

Interests / Hobbies

Innovative software projects, computer graphics and animation, travelling, snowboarding, mountain biking, squash, beach volleyball.