Hi, I'm Riccardo.

Research Assistant

Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL

• Built a real-time 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for head-tracked, tiled stereoscopic displays in Unity 6, with one rendering process per display on a GPU cluster.
• Designed a head-centered pipeline: sort order and spherical-harmonic color are computed once per display from the tracked head and shared by both eyes, and a radial sort key keeps displays consistent without inter-node synchronization.
• Benchmarked the pipeline on a 22-display CAVE (44 stereo views, 92M pixels per frame) with scenes containing up to 106M Gaussians, achieving speeds 1.3–2.8× faster than the reference 3DGS Unity plugin.
• Ported the UniCAVE multi-display VR plugin to Unity 6 and extended it to run EVL's CAVE2 and ARCADE, with row-interleaved passive stereo, one process per GPU on a 22-GPU cluster and self-contained launchers. Released as open source.

• Unity 6 (URP, Render Graph)
• C#
• HLSL compute shaders
• Netcode for GameObjects
• VRPN
• UniCAVE

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Illinois Chicago · GPA 3.86 / 4.0

• Computer Graphics
• High Performance Processors and Systems
• Advanced Topics in Software Engineering
• User Interface Design
• Secure Web Application Development
• Computer Security
• Artificial Intelligence

Master of Science in Engineering of Computing Systems

Politecnico di Milano · GPA 3.9 / 4.0

• Computer Graphics
• GPUs & Heterogeneous Systems
• Advanced Algorithms and Parallel Programming
• Distributed Systems
• Software Engineering II

Bachelor of Science in Engineering of Computing Systems

Politecnico di Milano · GPA 3.68 / 4.0 · Final mark 108/110