University of Bonn
- Focus on Real-time GI, Neural Rendering, and Machine Learning
Oct 2025 – present
Julian C. Stamm
Publications
Photon-Driven Neural Radiance Caching
Continuation of Bachelor's Thesis "Bidirectional Neural Radiance Caching" with focus on Photon trained NRC. Presented at I3D 2026.
- Poster
- I3D Companion '26
- https://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/publications/stamm-2026-photon
- 10.1145/3807895.3807923
May 2026
Experience
Teaching Assistant for "Foundations of 4D/6D Object Capture for Virtual Environments"
- Held daily block tutorials on Nerfs, IK, 3DGS, differentiable rendering etc.
Feb 2026 – Mar 2026
Teaching Assistant for "Introduction to Computer Graphics"
- Held weekly tutorials on rasterization, ray tracing, BSDFs, splines etc.
- Assisted in creation of exercises and exams
- Developed and maintained modern OpenGL/C++ framework used in the exercises and the animation competition
Apr 2024 – present
Temporary Worker in Software Development Team
Developed custom CAN bus logger.
May 2021 – Sept 2021
Projects
tsnn (unpublished)
High performance Slang-native tiny-cuda-nn alternative with Slangs auto-differentiation.
- Implementation of neural spline flows, hash grid encodings, MLPs, Adam, and more
- Achieves full kernel fusion with Falcor path tracer
- Slightly outperforms tiny-cuda-nn in my NRC benchmark
- Written for my current lab research on real-time neural importance sampling
May 2026 – present
PhotonNRC
Falcor implementation of my Bachelor Thesis "Bidirectional Neural Radiance Caching" and poster "Photon-Driven Neural Radiance Caching".
- Hardware-accelerated SPPM implementation
- NRC implementation using tiny-cuda-nn
- Implementation of Photon-NRC
Feb 2025 – present
BiNRC
OptiX implementation of my Bachelor Thesis "Bidirectional Neural Radiance Caching".
- Hardware-accelerated SPPM implementation
- NRC implementation using tiny-cuda-nn
- Unbiased path tracer with MIS and NEE
- Implementation of basic Disney principled BSDF
- Implementation of Photon-NRC
Feb 2025 – Sept 2025
nBounce
Self-educational real-time path tracer with software BVH construction and traversal.
- Written in Rust and wgpu
Aug 2024 – present
Stable Real-Time Simulation of Mesoscopic Glints
Computer Graphics Lab as part of the B.Sc. Computer Science.
- Implementation of the discrete stochastic microfacet model from "Real-Time Rendering of Glinty Appearances Using Distributed Binomial Laws on Anisotropic Grids" by Thomas Deliot and Laurent Belcour
Oct 2023 – Mar 2024
gltemplate
OpenGL 4.6 framework developed for CG exercises.
- Written in C++ and CMake, RAII-based resource management, texture/mesh loading utilities
Aug 2023 – present
Others
bevy_trail
Bevy plugin for high performance GPU-based trails in wgpu.
Apr 2026 – present
P2P Multiplayer Game
Working on a Python-moddable P2P-multiplayer card game in Rust using bevy.
Sept 2025 – present