His thesis is titled Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, a highly cited paper in Computer Graphics.
[3] After graduating from Stanford, Veach worked for Pixar from 1998 to 2000, collaborating with colleague Tom Lokovic to create realistic hair for animated movie Monsters, Inc..[1] They also published a paper titled Deep Shadow Maps, which won them an academy award in 2014.
[2] Veach won a 2014 Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for "foundational research on efficient Monte Carlo path tracing for image synthesis", especially on multiple importance sampling,[7] described in his 1997 thesis.
[1][3] He also won a 2014 Academy Award for Technical Achievement together with Thomas Lokovic for contributions to deep shadowing technologies.
[8] Journalist Farhad Manjoo mentioned Veach and two of his non-American colleagues at Google in an article titled "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants".