Daniel Meister is a researcher and software engineer at AMD. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo under the mentorship of Prof. Toshiya Hachisuka and Prof. Nobuyuki Umetani. He received a Ph.D. degree advised by Prof. Jiri Bittner at the Czech Technical University in Prague. His research interests include real-time ray tracing, acceleration data structures, global illumination, GPGPU, and machine learning for rendering.