Benedikt Bitterli is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, in Redmond, WA, where he has been investigating a variety of rendering problems including sampling, new material models, and applications of deep learning in real-time rendering. He led the research for the first ReSTIR paper targeting direct lighting for dynamic many-light scenes. He has a PhD from Dartmouth College, a BS and MSc from ETH Zurich, and has both research and production experience from Disney Research and Walt Disney Animation Studios.