My research and teaching are in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance of materials. I got my Ph.D. from Cornell in 1998, and held research positions at HP Laboratories, Microsoft Research, and Stanford University before I rejoined Cornell in 2002. I work part-time in the Real-Time Graphics Research group at NVIDIA Research.

Recent publications

Differentiable Neutron Transport

Xi Deng, Maosen Tang, Michael Czekanski, David Bindel, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2026

Toward Richer Material Generation via Procedural Data Enhancement

Yunchen Yu, Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren, Chris Cummings, Steve Marschner, Andrea Weidlich
SIGGRAPH 2026

Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks

Benedikt Bitterli, Petrik Clarberg, Chris Cummings, Aaron Lefohn, Steve Marschner, Jan Novák, Fabrice Rousselle, Andrea Weidlich, Tizian Zeltner
SIGGRAPH 2026

ArchSym: Detecting 3D-Grounded Architectural Symmetries in the Wild

Hanyu Chen, Ruojin Cai, Steve Marschner, Noah Snavely
CVPR 2026

Selfi: Self-improving Reconstruction Engine via 3D Geometric Feature Alignment

Youming Deng, Songyou Peng, Junyi Zhang, Kathryn Heal, Tiancheng Sun, John Flynn, Steve Marschner, Lucy Chai
CVPR 2026

Selected publications

A wave optics based fiber scattering model

Mengqi (Mandy) Xia, Bruce Walter, Eric Michielssen, David Bindel, and Steve Marschner.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport

Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2012

Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level

Jonathan M. Kaldor, Doug L. James, and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2008

Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers

Stephen R. Marschner, Henrik Wann Jensen, Mike Cammarano, Steve Worley, and Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2003

A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport

Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, and Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2001

Awards

Recent Teaching

Funding

National Science Foundation

Autodesk; Google; Adobe

Professional activities

Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

Papers co-chair for EGSR 2008

SIGGRAPH papers committee 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002

CVPR program committee 2010, 2006, 2005, 2003