Erik is a Master's student at the University of Waterloo. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor's of Software Engineering and a Minor in East Asian Studies. Erik's primary research interests lie in computer graphics and light interaction, although he also has interests in computer architecture and embedded systems.

Erik has extracurricular interests in Asian language and culture; Japanese anime and video-games; and walking and hiking. He speaks some Japanese, and is currently studying Korean and Mandarin.

• Baranoski,G.V.G.; Dimson, T.; Chen,T.F.; Kimmel,B.;Yim,D.; Miranda,E.
  Rapid Dissemination of Light Transport Models on the Web
  IEEE Computer graphics & Applications, Volume 32, Number 3, pp. 10-15, 2012.
• Yim, D.; Baranoski, G.V.G.; Kimmel, B.W.; Chen, T.F.; Miranda, E.
  A Cell-Based Light Interaction Model for Human Blood (preprint and video),
  Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 31, Number 2, pp. 845-854, 2012.
  (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2012, Cagliari, Italy.)

• Yim,D.; Baranoski,G.V.G.; Kimmel,B.; Chen,T.F.; Miranda,E.
  On the Modeling of Light Interaction with Human Blood
  Technical Report CS-2011-30, University of Waterloo, December 2011.