Rahul Narain /'rɑːhʊl nə'raɪən/

I'm currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. I work with James O'Brien in the Visual Computing Lab. My research interests are primarily in physically-based simulation of complex fluid and deformable systems for computer animation and other applications.

I did my Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I was advised by Ming Lin as part of the GAMMA group. I defended my doctoral thesis, Visual Simulation of Multiscale Phenomena, in August 2010.

Before that, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2006 with a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering.

Publications

• Free-Flowing Granular Materials with Two-Way Solid Coupling.
  Rahul Narain, Abhinav Golas, and Ming Lin.
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2010.
• Aggregate Dynamics for Dense Crowd Simulation.
  Rahul Narain, Abhinav Golas, Sean Curtis, and Ming Lin.
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2009.
• Interactive Modeling, Simulation and Control of Large-Scale Crowds and Traffic.
  Ming Lin, Stephen Guy, Rahul Narain, Jason Sewall, Sachin Patil, Jatin Chhugani, Abhinav Golas, Jur van den Berg, Sean Curtis, David Wilkie, Paul Merrell, Changkyu Kim, Nadathur Satish, Pradeep Dubey, and Dinesh Manocha.
  In Motion in Games (Lecture Notes in Computer Science series), 2009.
• Efficient and Accurate Sound Propagation Using Adaptive Rectangular Decomposition.
  Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Rahul Narain, and Ming Lin.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Sep/Oct 2009.
• Fast Animation of Turbulence Using Energy Transport and Procedural Synthesis.
  Rahul Narain, Jason Sewall, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin.
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2008.
• Fluid in Video: Augmenting Real Video with Simulated Fluids.
  Vivek Kwatra, Philippos Mordohai, Rahul Narain, Sashi Kumar Penta, Mark Carlson, Marc Pollefeys, and Ming Lin.
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2008.
• Feature-Guided Dynamic Texture Synthesis on Continuous Flows.
  Rahul Narain, Vivek Kwatra, Huai-Ping Lee, Theodore Kim, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin.
  Rendering Techniques 2007 (Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), 2007.