I am a PhD student in computer science at Texas A&M. My research interests include 3D human reconstruction, motion synthesis, and virtual reality.
In the summer of 2022, I interned at Meta Reality Labs. In the summer of 2021, I interned at Facebook Reality Labs. Prior to starting my PhD, I graduated from University of Virginia in 2015 with a BS in Computer Science. I also worked on 3D virtual surgery simulation for 3 years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Email: nicholas.milef [at] tamu.edu
Towards Unstructured Unlabeled Optical Mocap: A Video Helps!
Nicholas Milef, John Keyser, Shu Kong
SIGGRAPH (2024)
Variational pose prediction with dynamic sample selection from sparse tracking signals
Nicholas Milef, Shinjiro Sueda, Nima Khademi Kalantari
Eurographics (2023)
Foveated Monte-Carlo Denoising
Nicholas Milef, Nima Khademi Kalantari
SIGGRAPH 2021 Posters (2021)
Divided Voxels: an efficient algorithm for interactive cutting of deformable objects
Di Qi, Nicholas Milef, Suvranu De
The Visual Computer (2021)
Surgeons with five or more actual Cricothyrotomies perform significantly better on a virtual reality simulator
Di Qi, Emil Petrusa, Uwe Kruger, Nicholas Milef, Mohamad Rassoul Abu-Nuwar, Mohamad Haque, Robert Lim, Daniel B Jones, Melih Turkseven, Doga Demirel, Tansel Halic, Suvranu De, Noelle Saillant
Journal of Surgical Research (2020)
Rendering Surgery Simulation with Vulkan
Nicholas Milef, Di Qi, Suvranu De
GPU Zen 2 (2019)
Meta Reality Labs - Software Engineer Intern, Graphics
May 2022 - August 2022
Facebook Reality Labs - Research Engineer Intern, Computational Imaging & Graphics (PhD)
May 2021 - August 2021
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Software Engineer
June 2016 - July 2019
Doctor of Philosophy - Texas A&M University
Computer Science
August 2019 - Present
Bachelor of Science - University of Virginia
Computer Science
August 2012 - December 2015
Reviewer for Journal of Robotic Surgery (2023)