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Staff Software Engineer

Meta

real-time rendering, neural rendering, performance optimizations, cloth simulation

• Spearheading the initiative and development for a unified photorealistic real-time renderer for environments and digital avatars in VR via modern neural rendering approaches, like Gaussian splatting. Shipped Meta Horizon Hyperscape, a demo app that showcases photorealistic environments on Quest devices.
• Reduced training costs in multiple millions of dollars per year by optimizing CUDA kernels and training pipelines for large-scale ML efforts in 3D reconstruction of digital avatars.
• Scaled high-fidelity cloth simulations and rendering for digital humans. Led development of various cloth simulation components, both on CPU (SIMD) and GPU (CUDA), as well as real-time neural ML deformers (Vulkan, Torch) that run on VR devices.
• Created several cross-platform libraries related to computer graphics used by dozens of internal teams in diverse projects (acceleration structures, Vulkan abstraction layer, GPU tracing, Gaussian splatting runtime).

Software Engineer

Daedalean AG

real-time rendering, machine learning, flight simulations

• Worked on reliable autonomous piloting systems for aircraft through vision-based methods.
• Developed a near real-time cloud-based rendering and simulation service to generate large-scale multi-view aerial synthetic data for multiple internal teams.
• Improved the detect-and-avoid system by scaling its infrastructure for training models, sophisticated data augmentation (TensorFlow) and safety-critical testing.

Research Assistant

ETH Zürich

scientific visualization, flow analysis, dimensionality reduction, machine learning

• Developed novel techniques for dimensionality reduction, topology, feature extraction and visualization of high-dimensional flows, gravitational and general dynamical systems. Primary methods of approach included nonlinear optimization, machine learning and variational calculus.

Rendering Engineer

Kapanu AG

real-time rendering, software architecture, geometry processing, inverse rendering

• Shipped IvoSmile, a mobile AR try-on tool for dentists that aids in communicating dental prosthetic treatments.
• Developed an efficient mobile-first software architecture (iOS, Android), a cross-platform real-time rendering system (OpenGL), optimized performance and developed several geometry processing algorithms for dentures. Conducted R\&D on rendering and machine learning as well as physical lab design for capturing dental materials

Master in Computer Science

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Computer Science - Visual Computing

Bachelor in Computer Science

Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Nis, Serbia

Computer Science

SqueezeMe: Mobile-Ready Distillation of Gaussian Full-Body Avatars

SIGGRAPH 2025

Co-developed a method to animate and render multiple digital human avatars in VR.

Hardware-Rasterized Ray-Based Gaussian Splatting

CVPR 2025

Co-developed a novel rasterization-based Gaussian splatting algorithm that minimizes projection errors in high field-of-view settings like VR rendering.

Phase Space Projection of Dynamical Systems

EuroVis 2020

Developed a flow and curvature-preserving dimensionality reduction technique for trajectories in high-dimensional dynamical system phase spaces. One of the best papers with Honorable Mention Award.

PhysicsForests: Real-Time Fluid Simulation Using Machine Learning

SIGGRAPH 2017

Implemented rendering techniques used to visualize fluid simulations which were initially developed during my Master's thesis, as well as improvements to the core simulation framework.