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Andrew Russell

Andrew Russell is an NVIDIA software engineer whose AI work connects neural radiance fields with real-time light-field displays. He grew up in Jamaica, studied at MIT, and worked on display systems at Texas Instruments, Syndiant, Google, and Magic Leap. At NVIDIA, he combines AI with signal processing for image rendering and co-invents virtual-reality and neural-rendering systems. His coauthored G2LF work supports more than 200 frames per second across 45 display views. As of October 2026, he works at NVIDIA on real-time radiance-field graphics.

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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026. Citations and h-index are hidden because this OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors.

Timeline

  1. By 2022

    MIT and display engineering

    He grows up in Jamaica and studies at MIT for undergraduate and doctoral degrees. His work spans DLP displays at Texas Instruments, LCOS displays at Syndiant, Google's Project Starline autostereoscopic display for 3D video conferencing, and AR display integration at Magic Leap. By 2022, he is a principal software engineer at NVIDIA, where he combines AI with signal processing for image rendering.

  2. 2024

    A mixed-reality patent

    A 2024 NVIDIA patent application names Russell with four other inventors on a teleportation system that combines virtual and augmented reality.

  3. 2025

    Rendering neural radiance fields

    He co-invents a 2025 patent application for fast light-field rendering from neural radiance fields.

  4. August 2025–July 2026

    Real-time radiance-field rendering

    In August 2025, Russell and eight coauthors submit a paper on real-time radiance-field rendering for light-field displays; NVIDIA lists it for HPG 2026. Their method supports NeRFs, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and sparse voxels, and reaches 200+ FPS at 512p across 45 views. NVlabs supplies the paper's G2LF OpenGL/CUDA reference renderer, which uses a single plane-sweep pass.

  5. As of October 2026

    NVIDIA graphics research

    He works at NVIDIA on graphics research and coauthors its 2026 HPG paper about real-time radiance-field rendering for light-field displays.

Career

  1. Since 2022NVIDIAPrincipal Software Engineer

Education

  1. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUndergraduate degree

From the biography.

  1. Of 425 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 173 work there nowIncludes Andrew Russell. Our estimates of where former Google and Google DeepMind people work now, including moves within Google.
  2. Google alumni founded or led 82 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes NVIDIA. We trace 189 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 196 career moves between the labs.
  3. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes NVIDIA. We estimate how 12,774 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes NVIDIA. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Speaker: Andrew Russell — Forecast Science and Technology Academic Conference forecast-conference.webflow.io. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. US20240404226A1 - Teleportation system combining virtual reality and augmented reality - Google Patents patents.google.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. US20250363716A1 - Fast light field rendering from neural radiance fields - Google Patents patents.google.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. NVIDIA AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction Research research.nvidia.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. [2508.18540] Real-time 3D Visualization of Radiance Fields on Light Field Displays arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. GitHub - NVlabs/g2lf: Real-time 3D Visualization of Radiance Fields on Light Field Displays github.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. HPX Research Team research.nvidia.com. Checked 18 October 2026.