Zahra Montazeri

Computer Graphics, Physics-based Rendering, Modeling and Simulation

Zahra is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Manchester in the department of Computer Science. Her field of research is physics-based computer graphics with a focus on photorealistic rendering and appearance modeling for complex materials such as cloth, hair, and fur. She worked as a research consultant at Disney Research and collaborates with WetaDigital on joint research projects. She received Star Wars movie credit for The Mandalorian and her research paper was used in the production of Avatar, The Way of Water. 
Before joining academia, she was a Research and Development at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). She holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine (UCI), advised by Shuang Zhao, and worked under the supervision of Professor Henrik Wann Jensen. During her studies, she interned at Pixar Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, and for two years at Luxion (makers of KeyShot). She received her M.Sc. in Computer Science from UCI in 2017 and her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in 2015, Iran.

I am honored to work with these exceptional researchers: 

Current PhDs:

• Apoorv Khattar – started in Sep 2022
• Bowen Xue - started in Sep 202
• Fengxi Jin - started in Sep 2022
• Chenghao Wu - started in March 2023
• Hamila Mailee - started in Jan 2024

Alumni:

• PhD:
  • (2024) David Petrescu, next: Lecturer at University of Manchester
• MSc:
  • (2022) Hazhen Bai
  • (2023) Mengtong Feng

COMP37111 - Computer Graphics and Virtual Environment (2022, 2023)

COMP1INTRO Computer Science - Welcome Week (2023)

Comp10120 - First Year Tutorials (2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024)

Comp30040&30030 - Third Year Project (2022/2023, 2023/2024)

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