Ming C. Lin

Barry Mersky & Capital One E-Nnovate Endowed Professor
Distinguished University Professor
Former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair
Co-Director, UMD GAMMA Research Group
Co-Director, UNC GAMMA Research Group

Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science & Engineering
8125 Paint Branch Drive
College Park, MD 20742
email: lin [ a t ] umd.edu

HONORS

• ACM Fellow
• IEEE Fellow
• Eurographics Fellow
• ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
• IEEE Virtual Reality Academy
• National Academy of Inventors
• Washington Academy of Science Distinguished Career in Computer Science Award
• John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor (UNC)
• IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award
• Beverly W. Long Distinguished Term Professor (UNC)
• Carolina WOWS Scholar
• UNC Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement
• IBM/UNC Junior Faculty Development Award
• Honda Research Initiation Award
• NSF CAREER Award

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Machine Learning, Differentiable Physics & Differentiable Programming

  • Task-Driven Domain-Agnostic Learning with Information Bottleneck for Autonomous Steering (ICRA 2024)
  • HandyPriors: Physically Consistent Perception of Hand-Object Interactions with Differentiable Priors (ICRA 2024)
  • MTG: Mapless Trajectory Generator with Traversability Coverage for Outdoor Navigation (ICRA 2024)
  • Collaborative Decision-Making Using Spatio-temporal Graphs in Connected Autonomy (ICRA 2024)
  • ICAR: Image-based Complementary Auto Reasoning (AAAI 2024)
  • An Intrinsic Vector Heat Network (ICML 2024)
  • ViLA: Efficient Video-Language Alignment for Video Question Answering (ECCV 2024)
  • TRAVERSE: Traffic-Responsive Autonomous Vehicle Experience Rare-event Simulation for Enhanced safety (IROS 2024)
  • Deep Stochastic Kinematic Models for Probabilistic Motion Forecasting in Traffic (IROS 2024)
  • Gradient Informed Proximal Policy Optimization (NeurIPS 2023)
  • Dynamic Mesh-Aware Radiance Fields (ICCV 2023)
  • Visual, Spatial, Geometric-Preserved Place Recognition for Cross-View and Cross-Modal Collaborative Perception” (IROS 2023 BEST PAPER)
  • Auxiliary Modality Learning with Generalized Curriculum Distillation (ICML 2023)
  • PAC-NeRF - Physics Augmented Continuum Neural Radiance Fields for Geometry-Agnostic System Identification (ICLR 2023)
  • Aerial Diffusion: Text Guided Ground-to-Aerial View Synthesis from a Single Image using Diffusion Model (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
  • Small-Shot Multi-modal Distillation for Vision-based Autonomous Steering (IEEE ICRA 2023)
  • Differentiable Frequency-based Disentanglement for Aerial Video Action Recognition (IEEE ICRA 2023)
  • Traffic-Aware Autonomous Driving with Differentiable Traffic Simulation (IEEE ICRA 2023)
  • Differentiable Analog Quantum Computing for Optimization and Control (NeurIPS 2022)
  • NeuPhysics - Editable Neural Geometry and Physics from Monocular Videos (NeurIPS 2022)
  • Differentiable Hybrid Traffic Simulation (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)
  • Material Estimation from Video Using Multi-Scale Geometric Auto-Encoder (ECCV 2022)
  • FAR: Fourier Aerial Video Recognition (ECCV 2022)
  • Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Hybrid-weight Trust-Region Optimization and Curriculum Learning for Autonomous Maneuvering (IROS 2022)
  • Audio-Visual Depth and Material Estimation for Robot Navigation (IROS 2022)
  • Human Body Measurement Estimation with Adversarial Augmentation (3DV 2022)
  • Gradient-Free Adversarial Training Against Image Corruption for Learning-based Steering (NeurIPS 2021)
  • Differentiable Simulation of Soft Multi-body Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
  • Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Articulated Bodies (ICML 2021)
  • Adversarial Differentiable Data Augmentation for Autonomous Systems (ICRA 2021)
  • Differentiable Fluid Simulations for Learning and Control (AAAI 2021)
  • Improving Generalization of Transfer Learning Across Domains Using Spatio-Temporal Features in Autonomous Driving (2021)
  • Scalable Differentiable Physics for Learning and Control (ICML 2020)
  • Enhanced Transfer Learning for Autonomous Driving with Systematic Accident Simulation (IROS 2020)
  • GAN-based Garment Generation Using Sewing Pattern Images (ECCV 2020)
  • AVOT: Audio-Visual Object Tracking of Multiple Objects for Robotics (ICRA 2020)
  • Differentiable Cloth Simulation for Inverse Problems (NeurIPS 2019)
  • Shape-Aware Clothed Human Body Reconstruction Using Multi-View Images (ICCV 2019)
  • Analyzing Liquid Pouring Sequences via Audio-Visual Neural Networks (IROS 2019)
  • Compact Object Representation of a Non-Rigid Object for Real-Time Tracking In AR Systems (ISMAR 2018)
  • Physics-Inspired Garment Reconstruction from Single-View Image with Video (SIGGRAPH & ACM TOG 2018)
  • ISNN: Impact Sound Neural Network for Audio-Visual Object Classification (ECCV 2018)
  • Learning-based Cloth Material Recovery from Video (IEEE ICCV 2017)

• Physically-based Modeling, Simulation and Animation

  • Traffic-Aware Autonomous Driving with Differentiable Traffic Simulation (IEEE ICRA 2023)
  • Differentiable Hybrid Traffic Simulation (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)
  • Differentiable Simulation of Soft Multi-body Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
  • Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Articulated Bodies (ICML 2021)
  • Differentiable Fluid Simulations for Learning and Control (AAAI 2021)
  • Scalable Differentiable Physics for Learning and Control (ICML 2020)
  • Enhanced Transfer Learning for Autonomous Driving with Systematic Accident Simulation (IROS 2020)
  • Differentiable Cloth Simulation for Inverse Problems (NeurIPS 2019)
  • Audio-Material Reconstruction for Virtualized Reality Using a Probabilistic Damping Model (IEEE VR 2019)
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Redirected Walking with Auditory Distractors for Navigation in Virtual Environments (IEEE VR 2019)
  • A Geometrically Consistent Viscous Fluid Solver with Two-way Fluid-solid Coupling (Eurographics 2019)
  • Generalized WarpDriver: Unified Collision Avoidance for Multi-Robot Systems in Arbitrarily Complex Environments (Robotics: Science and Systems 2018)
  • Physics-Inspired Garment Reconstruction from Single-View Image (SIGGRAPH & ACM TOG 2018)
  • ISNN: Impact Sound Neural Network for Audio-Visual Object Classification (ECCV 2018)
  • Time-Domain Parallelization for Accelerating Cloth Simulation (ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation 2018)
  • City-Scale Traffic Animation Using Statistical Learning and Metamodel-based Simulation Optimization (SIGGRAPH Asia & ACM TOG 2017)
  • Citywide Estimation of Traffic Dynamics Via Sparse GPS Traces (IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 2017)
  • A Unified Particle System Framework for MultiPhase, Multi-Material Visual Simulations (SIGGRAPH Asia & ACM TOG 2017)
  • Learning-based Cloth Material Recovery from Video (IEEE ICCV 2017)
  • Pairwise Force SPH Model for Real-time Multi-Interaction Applications (ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation 2016 & IEEE TVCG 2017)
  • Glass Half Full: Sound Synthesis for Fluid-Structure Coupling Using Added Mass Operator (Computer Graphics International & Visual Computer 2017)
  • Interactive Collision Detection for Simulated Environments
  • Classification of Prostate Cancer Grades and T-Stages based on Tissue Elasticity Using Medical Image Analysis (MICCAI 2016)
  • A Multilevel SPH Solver with Unified Solid Boundary Handling (Pacific Graphics/CGF 2016)
  • Versatile Interactions at Interfaces for SPH-Based Simulations (ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation)
  • A Hybrid Particle-Based Fluid Solver with Interface Handling (Computer Graphics Forum/PG 2016)
  • Bayesian Estimation of Non-Rigid Mechanical Parameters Using Temporal Sequences of Deformation Samples (IEEE ICRA 2016)
  • MaterialCloning: Acquiring Elasticity Parameters from Images for Medical Applications (IEEE TVCG 2015/2016)
  • Fast Multiple-fluid Simulation Using Helmholtz Free Energy (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015)
  • Implicit Formulation for SPH-based Viscous Fluids (Eurographics 2015)
  • Fast SPH Simulation for Gaseous Fluids (Visual Computer 2015)
  • Simultaneous Estimation of Elasticity for Multiple Deformable Bodies (CASA 2015 - Journal of CAVW 2015)
  • A Simple Approach for Bubble Modeling from Multi-Phase Fluid Simulation (Computational Visual Media 2015)
  • Multiple-Fluid SPH Simulation Using a Mixture Model (ACM TOG/SIGGRAPH Asia 2014)
  • Sound Propagation in Large Complex Environments Using Wave-Ray Coupling (ACM TOG, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013)
  • Flow Reconstruction for Data-Driven Traffic Animation (ACM TOG/SIGGRAPH 2013)
  • Example-Guided Physically Based Modal Sound Synthesis (ACM TOG/SIGGRAPH 2013)
  • Flow Field Modulation (IEEE TVCG 2013, SCA 2013; Preprint)
  • Simulation-Based Joint Estimation of Body Deformation and Elasticity Parameters for Medical Image Analysis (IEEE TMI 2012)
  • Large-scale Fluid Simulation using Velocity-Vorticity Domain Decomposition (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012; Back Cover Image)
  • Fast Optimization-Based Elasticity Parameter Estimation Using Reduced Model (CGI 2012; The Visual Computer)
  • Interactive Hybrid Simulation of Large-Scale Traffic (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH Asia 2011)
  • Free-Flowing Granular Materials with Two-Way Solid Coupling (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH Asia 2010, Back Cover Image)
  • Precomputed Wave Simulation for Real-Time Sound Propagation of Dynamic Sources in Complex Scenes
  • Sounding Liquids: Automatic Sound Synthesis from Fluid Simulation (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH 2010)
  • Continuum Traffic Simulation (Eurographics 2010)
  • Synthesizing Contact Sounds Between Textured Objects (IEEE VR 2010)
  • Aggregate Dynamics for Dense Crowd Simulation (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Front Cover Image)
  • Accelerated Wave-based Acoustics Simulation Using Domain Decomposition (SPM 2008; IEEE TVCG 2010)
  • Controlling Deformable Models with Dynamic Morph Targets (I3DG 2009, Back Cover Image)
  • Fast Animation of Turbulence (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, Back Cover Image)
  • Visual Simulation of Shockwaves (SCA 2008, Cover Images; Graphical Model 2009)
  • Constraint-based Motion Synthesis for Deformable Models (CASA 2008, Cover Images)
  • Fluid in Video: Augmenting Real Video with Simulated Fluids (Eurographics 2008)
  • Physically-Based Validation of Deformable Medical Image Registration (MICCAI 2008)
  • Soft Articulated Characters with Fast Contact Handling (Eurographics 2007)
  • Feature-Guided Dynamic Texture Synthesis on Continuous Flows (EGSR 2007)
  • Fast Fluid Simulation Using Residual Distribution Schemes (EGWNP 2007)
  • Stable Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Systems (CASA/CAVW 2007)
  • Fast Simulation of Laplacian Growth (SIGGRAPH SKETCH 2005; IEEE CG&A 2007)
  • Texturing Fluids (SIGGRAPH SKETCH 2006; IEEE TVCG 2007)
  • Fast Animation of Lightning Using an Adaptive Mesh ( IEEE TVCG 2007, Cover Image)
  • A Survey on Hair Modeling: Styling, Simulation, and Rendering (IEEE TVCG 2007)
  • Strands and Hairs -- Modeling, Animation, and Rendering (SIGGRAPH 2007 Course; Best Course Notes for a New Course)
  • Modeling Ice Dynamics As A Thin-Film Stefan Problem (SCA 2006, Cover Image)
  • Fast Simulation of Deformable Models in Contact Using Dynamic Deformation Textures (SCA 2006; SIGGRAPH SKETCH 2006)
  • Finite Volume Flow Simulations in Arbitrary Domains (SCA 2005 Poster; Graphical Models 2006)
  • Adaptive Dynamics with Efficient Contact Handling (Robotics 2006)
  • SYMPHONY: Real-time Physically-based Sound Synthesis (I3DG 2006, Back Cover Image)
  • Interactive Simuation of Fibrin Fibers (IEEE VR 2006)
  • A Simulation-based Virtual Hair Salon (IEEE VR 2006; Presence 2007 Most Downloaded Paper of the Journal of Jan.'08)
  • Adaptive Dynamics of Articulated Bodies (SIGGRAPH 2005)
  • Efficient, Error-Bounded Approximation for Simulating Quasi-Statics of Complex Linkages (SPM 2005)
  • Physically Based Animation and Rendering of Lightning (Pacific Graphics 2004, Cover Image)
  • A Versatile, Interactive 3D Brush Model (Pacific Graphics 2004, Cover Image)
  • A Hybrid Algorithm for Modeling Ice Formation (SCA 2004)
  • IMPaSTo: A Realistic, Interactive Model for Paint (NPAR 2004)
  • Modeling Hair Influenced by Water and Styling Products (CASA 2004)
  • An Interactive, Stable Viscous Fluid Model (CASA/CAVW 2004)
  • Geometry-Driven Physical Interaction between Avatars and Virtual Environments (CASA/CAVW 2004)
  • Adaptive Grouping and Subdivision for Simulating Hair Dynamics (Pacific Graphics 2003)
  • Simulation of Ice Crystal Growth (SCA 2003)
  • Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations (CASA 2003)
  • Simulation Level of Detail for Automatic Simplification of Particle System Dynamics (Comp Animation 2001)
  • Modeling Flexible and Deformable Bodies using FFD (Solid Modeling 1999) and FEM
  • 3D Polyhedral Morphing (Computer Animation 1998)
  • Multi-scale Dynamics Simulator for Virtual Prototyping and Scientific Exploration (e.g. nanoSimulator).

• Planning, Navigation & Behaviors for Virtual Agents, Crowds, and Traffic

  • A Framework for Active Haptic Guidance Using Robotic Haptic Proxies (IEEE ICRA 2023)
  • Multi-agent Ergodic Coverage in Urban Environments (ICRA 2021)
  • ADAPS: Autonomous Driving Via Principled Simulations (IEEE ICRA 2019)
  • LSwarm: Efficient Collision Avoidance for Large Swarms with Coverage Constraints in Complex Urban Scenes (IROS 2019)
  • Generalized WarpDriver: Unified Collision Avoidance for Multi-Robot Systems in Arbitrarily Complex Environments (Robotics: Science and Systems 2018)
  • City-Scale Traffic Animation Using Statistical Learning and Metamodel-based Simulation Optimization (SIGGRAPH Asia & ACM TOG 2017)
  • Citywide Estimation of Traffic Dynamics Via Sparse GPS Traces (IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 2017)
  • Biologically-Inspired Visual Simulation of Insect Swarms (Eurographics 2015)
  • Virtualized Traffic at Metropolitan Scale (Frontier in VR 2015)
  • Road Network Library (Source Code) (Frontier in VR 2015)
  • Participatory Route Planning (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2014)
  • Continuum Modeling of Crowd Turbulence (ACM SIGGRAPH 2014; Phy. Rev. E 2014)
  • Parameter Estimation and Comparative Evaluation of Crowd Simulations (Eurographics/CGF 2014)
  • Hybrid Long-Range Collision Avoidance for Crowd Simulation (I3DG 2013; IEEE TVCG 2014)
  • Flow Reconstruction for Data-Driven Traffic Animation (ACM TOG/SIGGRAPH 2013)
  • Entropy Metric: A Statistical Measure for Aggregate Crowd Dynamics (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012)
  • Interactive Simulation of Dynamic Crowd Behaviors using General Adaptation Syndrome Theory (ACM I3DG 2012)
  • Self-Aware Traffic Route Planning (AAAI 2011)
  • Simulating Heterogeneous Crowd Behaviors Using Personality Trait Theory (SCA 2011)
  • Directing Crowd Simulation Using Navigation Fields (IEEE TVCG 2011)
  • PLEdestrians: A Least-Effort Approach to Crowd Simulation (SCA 2010)
  • Modeling Collision Avoidance Behavior for Virtual Humans (Nominee for AAMAS 2010 Best Virtual Agent Paper Award)
  • Aggregate Dynamics for Dense Crowd Simulation (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009; Front Cover Image)
  • ClearPath: Highly Parallel Collision Avoidance for Multi-Agent Simulation (SCA 2009)
  • Multi-robot Coordination and Planning (ICRA 2009)
  • Reciprocal N-body Collision Avoidance (ISRR 2009)
  • Virtualized Traffic: Reconstructing Traffic from Discrete Spatial-Temporal Data (IEEE VR 2009 Back Cover Image; TVCG 2010)
  • Path Planning among Movable Obstacles: a Probabilistically Complete Approach (WAFR 2008)
  • Composite Agents (SCA 2008)
  • Interactive Navigation of Individual Agents in Crowded Environments (ACM I3D 2008)
  • Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles for Real-Time Multi-Agent Navigation (ICRA 2008)
  • Large-Scale Real-time Modeling of Multiple Human Agents (ACM VRST 2007 Best Paper Award; TVCG 2009 Cover Image)
  • Efficient Motion Planning of Highly Articulated Chains using Physically-based Sampling (ICRA 2007)
  • Cable Route Planning Using Constrained Sampling (SPM 2007)
  • Real-time Path Planning for Virtual Agents in Dynamic Environments (IEEE VR 2007, Cover Image; TVCG 2008)
  • Motion Planning for a Deformable Robot in Complex Environment (Robotics 2005)
  • Practical Local Planning in Contact Space (ICRA 2005)
  • Constraint-Based Motion Planning of Deformable Robots (ICRA 2005)
  • Interactive Navigation in Complex Environments Using Path Planning (I3DG 2003)
  • Real-Time Constrainted-Based Motion Planning (SM 2002; WAFR 2002)
  • A Voronoi-Based Framework for Motion Planning and Maintainability Applications
  • V-Plan: A Voronoi-Based Hybrid Motion Planner (IROS 2001)
  • Randomized Path Planning for a Rigid Body Based on Hardware Accelerated Voronoi Sampling(WAFR 2000)
  • Real-time Motion Planning Based on Generalized Voronoi Diagram Using Graphics Hardware (ICRA 2000)
  • Interactive and dynamic path planner to provide guidance to the users in virtual worlds.

• Interactive Sound Rendering

  • Audio-Material Reconstruction for Virtualized Reality Using a Probabilistic Damping Model (IEEE VR 2019)
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Redirected Walking with Auditory Distractors for Navigation in Virtual Environments (IEEE VR 2019)
  • ISNN: Impact Sound Neural Network for Audio-Visual Object Classification (ECCV 2018)
  • Glass Half Full: Sound Synthesis for Fluid-Structure Coupling Using Added Mass Operator (Computer Graphics International & Visual Computer 2017)
  • SynCoPation: Interactive Synthesis-Coupled Sound Propagation (IEEE VR 2016, Best Paper HM)
  • Interactive Modal Sound Synthesis Using Generalized Proportional Damping (ACM I3DG 2016)
  • Analytic Ray Curve Tracing for Outdoor Sound Propagation (Applied Acoustics)
  • Interactive Virtual Percussion Instruments on Mobile Devices (ACM VRST 2015)
  • Integrated Multimodal Interaction Using Normal Maps (GI 2015)
  • WAVE: Interactive Wave-based Sound Propagation for Virtual Environments (IEEE VR 2015; IEEE TVCG 2015}
  • Wave-Ray Coupling for Interactive Sound Propagation in Large Complex Scenes (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013)
  • Auditory Perception of Geometry-Invariant Material Properties (IEEE TVCG, IEEE VR 2013)
  • Example-Guided Physically Based Modal Sound Synthesis (ACM TOG; ACM SIGGRAPH 2013)
  • Designing Virtual Instruments with Touch-Enabled Interfaces (ACM SIGCHI 2012)
  • An efficient time-domain solver for the acoustic wave equation on graphics processors (Applied Acoustics 2011)
  • Precomputed Wave Simulation for Real-Time Sound Propagation of Dynamic Sources in Complex Scenes (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH 2010)
  • Sounding Liquids: Automatic Sound Synthesis from Fluid Simulation (ACM TOG; SIGGRAPH 2010)
  • Synthesizing Contact Sounds Between Textured Objects (IEEE VR 2010)
  • Accelerated Wave-based Acoustics Simulation Using Domain Decomposition (SPM 2008; IEEE TVCG 2010)
  • SYMPHONY: Real-time Physically-based Sound Synthesis (I3DG 2006, Back Cover Image)

• Real-Time Haptic and Touch-Enabled Interaction

  • A Framework for Active Haptic Guidance Using Robotic Haptic Proxies (IEEE ICRA 2023)
  • Interactive Virtual Percussion Instruments on Mobile Devices (ACM VRST 2015)
  • Integrated Multimodal Interaction Using Normal Maps (GI 2015)
  • Tabletop Ensemble: Touch-Enabled Virtual Percussion Instruments (ACM I3DG 2012)
  • Haptic Rendering: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (under Computer Graphics Series by A K Peters LTD)
  • Analysis on Increasing Transparency for Penalty-Based Six Degree-Of-Freedom Haptic Rendering (IEEE World Haptics 2011)
  • Haptic Rendering of High-Resolution Deformable Objects (IEEE World Haptics 2007 Sketch; HCI International 2007 Invited Paper)
  • Interactive Virtual Hair Salon (IEEE VR 2006; Presence 2007 Most Downloaded Paper of the Journal of Jan'08)
  • Stable and Responsive Six-Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Manipulation Using Implicit Integration (World Haptics 2005; IEEE TRO 2006)
  • Sensation Preserving Haptic Rendering (IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 2005)
  • Haptic Rendering of Interaction between Textured Models (IEEE Visualization 2004)
  • A Perceptually-Inspired Force Model for Haptic Texture Rendering
  • Haptic Interaction with Fluid Media (Graphics Interface 2004)
  • Sensation Preserving Simplification for Haptic Rendering (SIGGRAPH 2003)
  • Six-Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Display Using Localized Contact Computations (IEEE Haptic Symposium 2002; Presence 2003 Cover Image Article)
  • ArtNova: Touch-Enabled 3D Model Design (IEEE VR 2002)
  • DAB: Interactive Haptic Painting with 3D Virtual Brushes (SIGGRAPH 2001)
  • User-Centric Viewpoint Computation for Haptic Exploration and Manipulation (VIS 2001)
  • 6 DoF Haptic Rendering (VIS 2000)
  • inTouch: Interactive Multiresolution Modeling and 3D Painting with a Haptic Interface (IEEE VR 2000)
  • A Framework for Fast and Accurate Collision Detection for Haptic Interaction (IEEE VR 1999)

• Collision Detection and Proximity Queries

  • Interactive Collision Detection for Simulated Environments
  • Fast Continuous Collision Detection among Deformable Models using Graphics Processors (EGVE 2006; Computer & Graphics 2007, 2nd Best Paper of the Year)
  • A Fast Method for Local Penetration Depth Computation (Journal of Graphical Tools 2006)
  • Multiresolution Collision Handling for Cloth-like Simulations (CASA/CAVW 2005)
  • Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition (SIGGRAPH 2005, Back Cover Image)
  • Efficient Inter- and Intra-Object Collision Culling Using Graphics Hardware (IEEE VR 2005; Best Paper Award)
  • Fast and Reliable Collision Culling using Graphics Hardware (VRST 2004)
  • Fast Collision Detection between Massive Models using Dynamic Simplification (Symp. on Geometry Processing 2004)
  • Fast Continuous Collision Detection for Articulated Models (SM 2004)
  • Interactive, Continuous Collision Detection for Avatars in VEs (IEEE VR 2004)
  • CAB: Fast Collision Culling for Articulated Bodies (Journal of Graphical Tools 2004)
  • CULLIDE: Interactive Collision Detection Between Complex Models in Large Environments Using Graphics Hardware (Graphics Hardware 2003)
  • CLODs: Dual Hierarchies for Multiresolution Collision Detection (Symp. on Geometry Processing 2003)
  • Fast Penetration Depth Estimation Using Rasterization Hardware and Hierarchical Refinement (SCA 2002; WAFR 2002)
  • Dual-space Expansion for Estimating Penetration Depth (ICRA 2002)
  • Fast Penetration Depth Estimation for Elastic Bodies Using Deformed Distance Fields (IROS 2001)
  • General Polyhedral Proximity Query (Eurographics 2001)
  • Fast and Simple Geometric Proximity Queries Using Graphics Hardware (I3DG 2001)
  • PQP: Fast Proximity Queries using Swept Sphere Volumes (ICRA 2000)
  • Partitioning and Handling Massive Models for Interactive Collision Detection (Eurographics 1999; Best Student Paper Award)
  • RAPID: Robust and Accurate Polygon Interference Detection using obbtrees (SIGGRAPH 1996)
  • Efficient and Accurate Interference Detection for Polynomial Deformation (Comp. Animation 1996)
  • Interactive and Exact Collision Detection (I3DG 1995)

• General-Purpose Computing on GPUs

  • An efficient time-domain solver for the acoustic wave equation on graphics processors (Applied Acoustics 2011)
  • Fast Simulation of Deformable Models in Contact Using Dynamic Deformation Textures (SCA 2006; SIGGRAPH SKETCH 2006)
  • Fast Continuous Collision Detection among Deformable Models using Graphics Processors (EGVE 2006; Computer & Graphics 2007, 2nd Best Paper of the Year)
  • Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition (SIGGRAPH 2005, Back Cover Image)
  • Efficient Inter- and Intra-Object Collision Culling Using Graphics Hardware (IEEE VR 2005; Best Paper Award)
  • Interactive Visibility Ordering of Geometric Primitives in Complex Environments (I3DG 2005)
  • Fast and Reliable Collision Culling using Graphics Hardware (VRST 2004)
  • Fast Database Operations using GPUs (SIGMOD 2004)
  • Haptic Rendering of Interaction between Textured Models (IEEE Visualization 2004)
  • Fast Continuous Collision Detection for Articulated Models (SM 2004)
  • IMPaSTo: A Realistic, Interactive Model for Paint (NPAR 2004)
  • Interactive, Continuous Collision Detection for Avatars in VEs (IEEE VR 2004)
  • Physical Simulation of Ice Crystal Growth (SCA 2003)
  • CULLIDE: Interactive Collision Detection Between Complex Models Using Graphics Hardware (Graphics Hardware 2003)
  • Efficient Swept Volume Approximation of Complex Polyhedral Models (SM 2003; Best Paper Award)
  • Fast Penetration Depth Estimation Using Rasterization Hardware and Hierarchical Refinement (SCA 2002; WAFR 2002)
  • Fast and Simple Geometric Proximity Queries Using Graphics Hardware (I3DG 2001)
  • Randomized Path Planning for a Rigid Body Based on Hardware Accelerated Voronoi Sampling(WAFR 2000)
  • Real-time Motion Planning Based on Generalized Voronoi Diagram Using Graphics Hardware (ICRA 2000)
  • Hardware Accelerated Computation of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams for Dynamic Environments (SIGGRAPH 1999)

• Geometric Modeling

  • Transforming GIS Data into Functional Road Models for Large-Scale Traffic Simulation (IEEE TVCG 2012)
  • SMA: An Approximate, Simplified Medial Axis (SM 2003)
  • Efficient Swept Volume Approximation of Complex Polyhedral Models (SM 2003; Best Paper Award)
  • Hardware Accelerated Computation of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams for Dynamic Environments (SIGGRAPH 1999)

• Rendering Techqniues

  • Feature-Guided Dynamic Texture Synthesis on Continuous Flows (EGSR 2007)
  • Texturing Fluids (SIGGRAPH SKETCH 2006; IEEE TVCG 2007)
  • Interactive Visibility Ordering of Geometric Primitives in Complex Environments (I3DG 2005)
  • Efficient Fitting and Rendering of Large Scattered Data Sets Using Subdivision Surfaces (Eurographics 2002; 3rd Best Paper)
  • User-Centric Viewpoint Computation for Haptic Exploration and Manipulation (VIS 2001)
  • A Video-Based Rendering Acceleration Algorithm for Interactive Walkthroughs (Multimedia 2000)

• Distributed Interactive Simulation

  • Model dynamic terrain, environmental effects, buildings and large geometric models realistically (NPS 1994)

TEACHING

• Invited Tutorials (not including keynotes) for GDC 1999, 2000, 2003; ACM SMA 2002; CASA 2004; ACM VRCIA 2006; IEEE VR 2010.
• Courses for SIGGRAPH (Asia) 1997, 1999-2000, 2002-2010, 2014 (Sample Slides from 2000 and 2003)
• Advances in XR (Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
• Differentiable Programming (Fall 2021, Fall 2023)
• Learning-Based Modeling, Simulation and Animation (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)
• Algorithms and Analysis (Spring 2016); Also offered in Spring 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and Fall 2009, 2008 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1999.
• Everyday Computing Fall 2013; Spring 2011
• Everyday Computing (HONORS) (Fall 2015)
• Physically-Based Modeling, Simulation and Animation (Fall 2019); Also offered in Fall 2014; Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002, Spring 2000, Fall 1995.
• Computational Geometry and Applications (Fall 1998)
• Robotics: An Introduction (Fall 2006)
• Motion Planning and Synthesis (Fall 2003 as a guest lecturer and course co-designer)

STUDENTS & POSTDOCS I'M WORKING WITH

• Alper Bozkurt (Postdoc; Duke PhD)
• Will Chambers (Oxide Games)
• Xiyi Chen
• Divya Kothandaraman
• Alexander Gao
• Taewon Kang
• Anh Nhu
• Shrey Patel
• Sang Hyun Son
• Xijun Wang
• Laura Zheng

MRC RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

• Guru Nandhan A D P (Amazon Robotics)
• Sandip Sharan Senthil Kumar
• Sourang SriHari
• Sandeep Thalapanane

  UMD HONORS & CS UNDERGRADS

• Karan Jain
• Darius Kianersi
• Wenjie Wei

STUDENTS GRADUATED

• Erik Andersen (BS Honor; UW PhD; Cornell)
• Bill Baxter (Google)
• Cenk Baykal (B.S. Honor; MIT)
• Stephen Ehmann (NVidia)
• Abhinav Golas (Samsung Research)
• Susan Fisher Fong (Pixar Animation Studio)
• Mark Foskey (Accuray/UNC-CH)
• Nico Galoppo (Intel)
• Maxim Garber (Balanced Worlds)
• Russell Gayle (Sandia National Lab)
• Stephen Guy (University of Minnesota)
• Stefan Gottschalk (NVidia)
• Arthur Gregory (DreamWorks)
• Kenneth Hoff III (Sony R&D America)
• Caroline Horsch
• Nitin Jain (Oracle Corporation)
• Ilknur Kabul (Kitware)
• Sujeong Kim (SRI International)
• Ted Kim (Yale University; UC Santa Barbara & Pixar Animation Studio)
• Eric Larsen (Sony R&D America)
• Huai-Ping Lee (Amazon)
• Joohi Lee (UCLA/MBA)
• Weizi Li (University of Tennessee, Knoxsville)
• Junbang Liang (Amazon)
• Shijia Liao (NVIDIA)
• Angela Liu (NSA)
• Sam Lowe (Stanford University)
• Paul Mecklenberg (Google)
• Ravish Mehra (Meta/Facebook)
• Will Moss (Bump Technologies)
• Rahul Narain (IIT Delhi & UMN Twin Cities)
• James Norton (BS Honor; Samsung)
• Miguel Otaduy (URJC Madrid & Facebook/Meta)
• Sachin Patil (Otto)
• Amol Pattekar (Yahoo)
• Charles Pisula (Apple)
• Yiling Qiao (Jump Technologies)
• Nikunj Raghuvanshi (Microsoft Research)
• Bo Ren (Nankai University)
• Zhimin Ren (Uber)
• Nick Rewkowskie
• Shreelekha Revankar (Cornell University)
• Atul Rungta (Co-advising with D. Manocha)
• Vincent Scheib (Google)
• Jeff Schoner (Microsoft)
• Jason Sewall (NVIDIA Research)
• Yu Shen (Adobe Research)
• Auston Sterling
• Tetsuya Takahashi (Adobe)
• Justin Wilson (MITRE)
• David Wolinski (INRIA)
• Shan (Alex) Yang (Amazon / Xoogler)
• Tao Yang (Tsinghua University; Co-advising with S. M. Hu)
• Hengchin Yeh (Google)
• Jiangbo Yin (Datacom Systems)
• Kelly Ward (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
• David Wilkie (Aurora / XGoogler)
• Niall Williams (NYU)
• Andrew Zaferakis (Moby Games/High Moon Studios)
• Yu Zheng (Tencent Labs; Univ. of Michigan)
• Ami Zhou
• Maggie Zhou (Google)

FORMER POSTDOCS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

• Jur van den Berg (Waabi; Otto; Univ of Utah)
• Mark Foskey (Accuray/UNC-CH)
• Peng Gao (NC State University)
• Naga Govindaraju (Microsoft Research)
• Ted Kim (Yale University, Pixar/UC Santa Barbara)
• Young Kim (EWHA, Korea)
• Vivek Kwatra (Google Research)
• Stephane Redon (INRIA, France)
• Harald Schmidl (Duke University)
• Avneesh Sud (Google Research)
• Tianjun Wang

OTHER STUDENTS ADVISED & VISITING SCHOLARS

• Tanya Amert
• Benoit Legouis (Visiting from INRIA, Advisor: Maud Marchal)
• Sean Curtis (Toyota Research Institute)
• Jacob Hicks
• Gentaro Hirota (NVidia)
• Christian Lennerz (MPI, Visiting Student)
• Ajith Mascarenhas (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
• Jia Pan (City University @ HK)
• David O'Brien
• Sashi Kumar Penta (Intel Corporation)
• Xueying Qin (Shangdong University, Visiting Professor)
• Jonathan Robbins (NVidia)
• Mert Sedef (Mimic Technologies)
• Serhat Tekin (Intel Corporation)
• Nolan Walker (Emergent Technology, Inc.)
• Jeremy Wendt (Sandia National Lab)
• Nicola Wolpert (MPI, Visiting Postdoc)

CHAIRED/ORGANIZED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

• CRA CAREER MENTORING WORKSHOP 2024
• MENTORING THE MENTORS 2023-Present
• CRA Widening Participation (CRA-WP) Distributed REU (DREU) 2016-Present
• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
• IEEE Computer Society Harry Goode Memorial Award Committee 2023-2026
• IEEE Computer Society Fellows Committee 2018
• IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award Committee 2017-2020
• IEEE Computer Society Award Committee 2017
• IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds, March 2017, Los Angeles, California.
• Asia Graphics Awards Committee 2016 - Present
• ACM SIGGRAPH Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016-2020
• Workshop on Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health, December 2016, Washington D.C.
• Eurographics, May 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.
• IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds, March 2016, Greenville, South Carolina.
• ACM VRST, November 2015, Peking, China.
• >Pacific Graphics, October 2015, Peking, China.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015, Seattle, Washington.
• IEEE ICRA Workshop on Challenges in Virtua Reality, May 2015, Seattle, Washington.
• Computational Visual Media Conference, September 2013, Hangzhou, China.
• Pacific Graphics, September 2011, Taiwan.
• International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, December 2010, Singapore.
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, November 2010, Hong Kong, China.
• CASA Workshop on Crowd Simulation, June 2010, St. Malo, France.
• IEEE ICRA Workshop on Robotics and Intelligent Transportation System, May 2010, Alaska, USA.
• Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena, March 2009, Munich, Germany.
• IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Cityscapes, March 2008, Reno, NV.
• IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March 2008, Reno, NV.
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, November 2007, Newport Beach, CA.
• IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March 2007, Charlotte, NC.
• Workshop on Edge Computing Using New Commodity Architectures, May 2006, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, May 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Computer Animation and Social Agents, October 2005, Hong Kong, China.
• Eurographics 2005, August-September 2005, Dublin, Ireland.
• ACM SIGGRAPH Course on Haptic Rendering, July-August 2005, Los Angeles, CA.
• ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors, August 2004, Los Angeles, CA.
• NSF-ENG Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, April 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
• IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Robotics for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, October 2003, Las Vegas, NV
• ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation 2003, July 2003, San Diego, CA
• Workshop on Intelligent Human Augmentation and Virtual Environment, October 2002, Chapel Hill, NC
• Carolina Women in Computer Science Series, 1999-2004
• ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications 1999, June 1999, Ann Arbor, MI
• ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry 1996, May 1996, Philadelphia, PA
• Human Performance Modeling Workshop, October 1996, Research Triangle Park, NC
• Advanced Concept Workshop on Basis Functions for Data Representation, Processing and Computation, April 1996, Research Triangle Park, NC