Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2008, he has founded Lightflow Technologies in 1999, developing one of the first publically available global illumination engines. He later worked as a rendering expert in the film industry, has co-authored a book on production rendering and joined mental images in 2005 where he worked as Lead Rendering Research Scientist to develop interactive photorealistic rendering solutions. Jacopo studied Mathematics at the University of Padova, Italy.