Presenter

Aaron Lefohn is vice president of graphics research at NVIDIA, overseeing teams focused on rendering, AI graphics, and graphics systems. His teams’ inventions have played key roles in bringing path tracing to real-time graphics and pioneering real-time AI computer graphics. Recent NVIDIA products derived from his teams’ inventions include DLSS, RTX Path Tracing, RTX Dynamic Illumination, Neural Shading, the Slang shading language, and more.

Aaron has led real-time rendering and graphics programming model research teams for over 15 years and has productized many inventions into games, professional graphics software, GPU hardware, and GPU graphics APIs.

Aaron holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Davis and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Utah.