James Fung

Dr. James Fung is a notable engineer and computer scientist with achievements in the areas os computer vision, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and music.

Achievements

Dr. Fung is notable as the leading innovator in the area of using GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for general-purpose computation. For this work, he won the prestigiuous Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Open Source Software Award, particularly, for his work on the OpenVIDIA project. His work has also been featured in the book GPU Gems 2 by Nvidia. .

Other notable achievements include pioneering work on wearable computing, cyborglogging, and graphics/vision processing systems for EyeTap mediated-reality devices.

Additionally Fung is an accomplished musician and innovator in computer music, with notable achievements in the area of brain-machine interfaces for collaborative music in Immersed Music environments (e.g. underwater brainwave MusicAL interfaces, etc.).

Fung was recently appointed to a research position at nVIDIA.