I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Professor Lingqi Yan. My research interests lie at the intersection between computer rendering and computational photonics. My aim is to reproduce the complicated interaction between light and matter in an accurate and computationally tractable fashion, with current work focusing on physically- and mathematically-rigorous reproduction of material appearance and rendering of complex optical phenomena. Additional areas of research and interest include light transport, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and real and complex analysis.

I hold a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Previously, I was a member of the rendering team working on CRYENGINE, a leading game- and rendering-engine.

Looking for active collaborators, feel free to contact me.

Publications

Rendering of Subjective Speckle Formed by Rough Statistical Surfaces

Anonymous
Technical report
April, 2020

Accurate Rendering of Liquid-Crystals and Inhomogeneous Optically Anisotropic Media

Steinberg, S.
ACM Transactions on Graphics
To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2020
July, 2019

Analytic Spectral Integration of Birefringence-Induced Iridescence

Steinberg, S.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2019)
Presented at EGSR 2019
July, 2018

Efficient Distributed Execution of Multi-component Scenario-based Models

Steinberg, S., Greenyer, J., Gritzner, D., Harel, D., Katz, G. and Marron, A.
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series published by Springer
February, 2017

Distributing Scenario-Based Models: A Replicate-and-Project Approach

Steinberg, S., Greenyer, J., Gritzner, D., Harel, D., Katz, G. and Marron, A.
MODELSWARD 2017 — Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Teaching

  • Summer 2020 - UCSB CS40 Foundations of Computer Science (Propositional and predicate logic, set theory, proof techniques, functions and relations, counting, mathematical induction and recursion)

Education

  • University of California, Santa Barbara - Ph.D. Computer Science
    2019 - present
  • Weizmann Institute of Science - M.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science
    2015 - 2017
  • Open University of Israel - B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science
    2011 - 2015

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