Alexey Stomakhin

Work History

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  Senior Simulation Researcher

  Wētā FX

  January 2018 - Present

  

  

  

  
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  Senior Software Engineer

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  July 2013 - January 2018

  

  
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  Research Fellow

  UCLA

  June 2010 - June 2013

  • Crime Modeling, Social Networks, Reconstruction of Missing Data (2010-2011)
  • Scientific Computing, Physically Based Animation, Computer Graphics (2011-2013)
  
  My research focuses on realistic simulation of fluids and elastic solids. My research interests include computational solid and fluid mechanics, solid/fluid coupling, multigrid methods and parallel computing.
  
  Advisors: Prof. Joseph Teran and Prof. Andrea Bertozzi.
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  Software Engineer

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  February 2013 - May 2013

  Integration of a material point method (MPM) snow solver (a.k.a. Matterhorn) into production pipeline to be used for deep snow effects in Disney's movie Frozen (2013)
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  Graduate Research Intern

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  June 2012 - September 2012

  Optimization of a Maya plugin for physically based character skinning via efficient stencil computation and parallelization/vectorization on a CPU.
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  Graduate Research Intern

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  July 2011 - September 2011

  Implementation and performance comparison of multigrid solvers for physically based character skinning.

  
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  Teaching Fellow

  UCLA

  January 2010 - June 2011

  Leading discussion sections to review lecture material, tutoring at the Student Math Center, preparing review sessions before exams, and holding office hours to provide students with additional help.
  
  PIC 10A: Introduction to Programming (Spring 2011)
  MATH 269B: Advanced Numerical Analysis (Winter 2011)
  MATH 269A: Advanced Numerical Analysis (Fall 2010)
  MATH 33B: Differential Equations (Spring 2010)
  MATH 33B: Differential Equations (Winter 2010)
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  Undergraduate Intern

  Intel Corporation

  April 2008 - July 2009

  Development and implementation of automatic verification and graphical representation systems for a processor performance model.