I am a research scientist in the Creative Technologies Lab at Adobe Systems. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington, where I was a member of the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) from 2000-2007. My thesis work presents new interactive visualization techniques that help users understand and explore complex 3D objects with many constituent parts (e.g., CAD models, anatomical datasets). I have also worked on interactive texture synthesis, adaptive document layout, and non-photorealistic rendering for virtual environments. From 1996-2000, I attended Princeton University, where I earned a BSE in computer science. I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. You can visit my official Adobe page here.
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Publications

 Review of Automatic Document Formatting
N. HURST, W. LI, K. MARRIOTT
DocEng 2009 (To Appear)
Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials by Demonstration
F. GRABLER, M. AGRAWALA, W. LI, M. DONTCHEVA, T. IGARASHI
SIGGRAPH 2009 (To Appear)
[PDF]
Automated generation of interactive 3D exploded view diagrams
W. LI, M. AGRAWALA, B. CURLESS, D. SALESIN
SIGGRAPH 2008
[PDF; Video]
Interactive cutaway illustrations of complex 3D models
W. LI, L. RITTER, M. AGRAWALA, B. CURLESS, D. SALESIN
SIGGRAPH 2007
[PDF; Video]
Painting with texture
L. RITTER, W. LI, M. AGRAWALA, B. CURLESS, D. SALESIN
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2006
[PDF]
Interactive image-based exploded view diagrams
W. LI, M. AGRAWALA, D. SALESIN
Graphics Interface 2004
[PDF; Video]
(Awarded Michael AJ Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper)
Adaptive grid-based document layout
C. JACOBS, W. LI, E. SCHRIER, D. BARGERON, D. SALESIN
SIGGRAPH 2003
[PDF]

Adaptive document layout
C. JACOBS, W. LI, E. SCHRIER, D. BARGERON, D. SALESIN
Communications of the ACM 47(8)
[PDF]

Adaptive document layout via manifold content
C. JACOBS, W. LI, D. SALESIN
Workshop on Web Document Analysis 2003
[PDF]
Non-photorealistic virtual environments
A. KLEIN, W. LI, M. KAZHDAN, W. CORREA, A. FINKELSTEIN, T. FUNKHOUSER
SIGGRAPH 2000
[PDF]
Design

In addition to doing research in computer graphics, I spend some of my time doing graphic design. Here are a few projects I've worked on in the last few years. Click here for larger images and more information.