Founder and Chief Scientist
Michael is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and co-founder of RapidMind. He continues to perform research within the Computer Graphics Lab at the University of Waterloo. Professor McCool has a diverse set of published papers, and his research interests include high-quality real-time rendering, global and local illumination, hardware algorithms, parallel computing, reconfigurable computing, interval and Monte Carlo methods and applications, end-user programming and metaprogramming, image and signal processing, and sampling. Michael has degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Michael also serves on the Board of Directors for RapidMind Inc.