Rex West

Project Assistant Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
Ph.D. (博士)
rex.a.west [at] jacobs.ucsd.edu

Rex West is a Project Assistant Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University under the supervision of Prof. Yonghao Yue.
He graduated from the Ph.D. program of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo, and was supervised by Prof. Nobuyuki Umetani (and formerly by Prof. Toshiya Hachisuka).

His research interests include light transport simulation, non-photorealistic rendering, and numerical integration methods.

News

2025/05/12: We have a paper on using segments as the fundamental unit of light transport accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025.
2024/05/01: We have a paper on a generalization of the rendering equation that supports PBR and a subset of NPR stylizations under a single formulation accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024.
2023/06/01: I have taken a Project Assistant Professor position at Aoyama Gakuin University under the supervision of Prof. Yonghao Yue.
2022/09/22: Graduated from the PhD Program at UTokyo.
2022/08/04: We have a paper on (unbiased) approximation of MIS when one or more of the sampling techniques has an intractable marginal PDF accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.
2022/06/30: I have succssfully defended my PhD thesis with a planned graduation date of mid September.
2021/08/31: I have a paper on feature line rendering accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2021.

Publications

Segment-based Light Transport Simulation

A segment-based light transport framework that incldues new integral formulations, estimators, sampling techiques, and a highly performant bidirectional path filtering method.
W. Wang, R. West, and T. Hachisuka
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2025)
[paper] [supplemental]