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I am honored and fortunate to conduct my research with a group of students who share a deep passion for graphics, physics, and computing. If you are interested in collaborating, please don't hesitate to reach out.

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Current Students

Duowen Chen (CS Ph.D.)

Yuchen Sun (CS Ph.D.)

Sinan Wang (CS Ph.D.)

Jinjin He (CS Ph.D.)

Zhiqi Li (CS Ph.D.)

Eva Lu (MSCS)

Shikhman, Lennon J (MSCS)

Minseo Kim (Undergraduate)

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Alumni (Thesis Research)

Mengdi Wang (CS Ph.D. 26'), Next stop: UBC postdoc

• Ph.D. Thesis: High-Performance Multiscale Fluid Simulation: GPU-Based Representations, Solvers, and Adaptive Algorithms

Barney Borcsok (MSCS 25', co-advised with Prof. Greg Turk), Next stops: Adobe -> MIT Ph.D.

• MSCS Thesis: Differentiable 3D Scene Representations with Point-Based Neural Methods

Amrutha Srikanth (MSCS 25', co-advised with Prof. Greg Turk), Next stop: Microsoft

• Project Topic: Dynamic Physics Simulation of Realistic Natural Phenomena Using Generative Models

Yutong Sun (MSCS 25'), Next stop: Meta

• MSCS Thesis: One-Step Flow Maps for Real-Time Fluid Simulation with Dynamic Boundaries

Fan Feng (CS Ph.D. 25')

• Ph.D. Thesis: Representation, Dynamics and Optimization of Physical Structures

Taiyuan Zhang (MSCS 25'), Next stop: Alibaba

• MSCS Thesis: Particle-Based High-Fidelity Interface Tracking Algorithms

Yitong Deng (M.S. in CS), Next stop: Stanford CS Ph.D.

• MSCS Thesis: Simulating Incompressible Thin-Film Fluid Using a Moving Eulerian-Lagrangian Particle Method

Yunjin Tong (CS Undergrad 24'), Next stop: Stanford Ph.D.

• High-Honor Thesis: Data-Driven Computing Methods for Nonlinear Physics Systems with Geometric Constraints
• 2022 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention

Jinyuan Liu (CS Ph.D. 24')

• Ph.D. Thesis: Simulating Cross-Scale Solid-Fluid Interaction Phenomena

Ziqian Wu (ENG Ph.D. 23', co-advised with Prof. John Zhang)

• Ph.D. Thesis: System Characterized Artificial Intelligence Approaches For Cardiac Cellular Systems And Molecule Signatures

Benjamin W. Newhall (CS Undergrad 23')

• High-Honor Thesis: RTBarnesHut: GPU Accelerated Barnes-Hut Using RT Cores

Eric Gibson (CS Undergrad 23'), Next stop: UW Seattle Applied Math M.S.

• Honor Thesis: Predicting Soft Body Dynamics Using Machine Learning

Sebastian Saker (CS Undergrad 23')

• Honor Thesis: Dynamic Neural Implicit Signed Distance Functions

Daniel M. DiPietro (CS Undergrad 22'), Next stop: Jane Street Capital

• High-Honor Thesis: Symplectically Integrated Symbolic Regression of Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems
• 2021 Neukom Undergraduate Research Prize Winner
• 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Finalist

Hanna A. Kidanemariam (CS Undergrad 22', co-advised with Prof. James Whitefield), Next stop: Microsoft

• Thesis: A Quantum Key Distribution Protocol

Eammon Littler (M.S. in Digital Arts 22', co-advised with Prof. Wojciech Jarosz)

• MSDA Thesis: Automated Filament Inking for Multi-color FFF 3D Printing

Shuqi Yang (M.S. in Digital Arts 21'), GAMES Speaker, Next stop: Facebook

• MSDA Thesis: Learning and Simulation Algorithms for Constraint Physical Systems
• 2021 Neukom Graduate Research Prize Winner

Yaorui Zhang (M.S. in Digital Arts 21'), Next stop: Tiktok

• MSDA Thesis: Design, Modeling, and Control of Soft Dynamic Systems

Xiangxin Kong (M.S. in Digital Arts 21'), Next stop: Amazon

• MSDA Thesis: Fluid Simulation and Visualization Algorithms on a Dynamic Point-Set Surface

Ziyue Liu (M.S. in Digital Arts 21'), Next stop: Facebook

• MSDA Thesis: Computational Methods with Differentiable Voronoi Diagrams

Zangyueyang Xian (M.S. in CS 21'), Next stop: Taichi Graphics

Aditya H. Prasad (CS Undergrad 21'), Next stop: Microsoft

• High-Honor Thesis: Physically Based Rendering Techniques to Visualize Thin-Film SPH Fluid Simulations

Winston Wang (CS Undergrad 21'), Next step: Withheld Financial Institution

• Honor Thesis: Building High-Performance GPU Solvers for Domain-Specific Applications

Evan Z. Muscatel (CS Undergrad 21'), Next stop: BCG

• Honor Thesis: Impulse Method for Shallow Water Simulation

Soren Thompson (CS Undergrad 20')

• High-Honor Thesis: Fluid Surface Tracking Particles

Penny Liu (CS Undergrad 20'), Next stop: Princeton CS M.S.

• Honor Thesis: Fluid Inspired Neural Network PDE Solver

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Alumni (Research Associates, Assistants, and Interns)

Junwei Zhou (Research Intern from U Michigan), Next stop: start up

Shiying Xiong (Postdoc), Next stop: Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University

Zhecheng Wang (Research intern from UT Austin), Next stop: Ph.D. student at UofT

Jeff Liu (CS Undergrad 23', Presidential Scholar)

Helen Cao (CS Undergrad 22', WISP and Presidential Scholar, UGAR Conference Travel Awardee)

Tanli Su (CS Undergrad 22', Presidential Scholar 2020), Next stop: CMU CS Ph.D.

Maria Bolanos (CS Undergrad 22', Presidential Scholar 2020)

Tahmina Hasan (CS Undergrad 22' WISP)

Michelle Chen (CS Undergrad 22', WISP 2019), Next stop: Dartmouth Graduate School

Eitan E. Vilker (CS Undergrad 21, UGAR 2020), Next stop: Dartmouth Graduate School

Chun Lun Lit (CS Undergrad 21', UGAR 2019), Next stop: Dartmouth Graduate School

Shengsong Gao (CS Undergrad 21', Presidential Scholar 2020), Next stop: UT Austin CS M.S.

Aadil Islam (CS Undergrad 21', UGAR 2019), Next stop: Dartmouth Graduate School

William A. P. Wolfe-McGuire (ENG Undergrad 21', UGAR 2019), Next stop: AeroVironment

Qiqin Le (Remote Visiting student from CMU, 2020 Winter - 2021 Winter), Next stop: Researcher in IIIS, Tsinghua University

Rui Tao (Visiting Ph.D. from Dalian Maritime University, 2020 Winter - 2021 Winter), Next stop: postdoc at Dalian Maritime University

Xingzhe He (Research intern from Rutgers University, 2019 Winter - 2020 Spring), Next stop: UBC CS Ph.D.

Yijun Li (Research intern from Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2019 Summer - 2020 Winter), Next stop: UCLA CS M.S.

Xingyu Ni (Research intern from Peking University, 2019 Summer), Next stop: Peking University CS Ph.D.

Mike Zhang (Research intern from Lawrenceville School, 2019 Summer), Next stop: Stanford Undergrad

Yiming Li (Research intern from Tsinghua University, 2019 Spring), Next stop: Wisconsin-Madison CS Ph.D.

Siqi Wang (Research intern (remote) from Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2018 Fall), Next stop: NYU CS Ph.D.

Yongxu Jin (Research intern (remote) from Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2018 Fall), Next stop: Stanford CS Ph.D.

  

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