Mark Leone

Current

• Senior graphics software architect at Intel

Past

• Rendering Software Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios
• Software Engineer at Zoesis Studios
• Visiting Lecturer at Indiana University

• Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University
• Intern at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Cornell University

Connections

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Mark Leone’s Summary

Compilers, interpreters, and language runtime systems.

Mark Leone’s Specialties:

Shading languages and functional programming languages. Program analysis and optimization, specialization, run-time code generation.

Mark Leone’s Experience

• Senior graphics software architect

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Developing rendering software for Intel's Larrabee architecture.

• Rendering Software Engineer

  Pixar Animation Studios

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — May 2008 (6 years 1 month)

  Lead developer of the RenderMan shading system.

• Software Engineer

  Zoesis Studios

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1998 — April 2002 (3 years 8 months)

  Developed compiler and run-time system for building personality-rich animated characters (www.zoesis.com).

• Visiting Lecturer

  Indiana University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1996 — August 1998 (2 years )

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/proglang/dynamo/

• Research Assistant

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1989 — August 1996 (7 years )

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/research.html

• Intern

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  1987 — 1987 (less than a year)

Mark Leone’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  MS , Computer Science , 1989 — 1996

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/research.html

• Cornell University

  BS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1989

Additional Information

Mark Leone’s Groups:

•    3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming