Team

The Geometric Computing Laboratory is a collective of scientists, creators, thinkers, and tinkerers, united in the goal of advancing knowledge in geometry, computation, and making. Currently open positions can be found here. Awards received by members of GCM are listed here.

PhD Alumni

Yingying (Samara) Ren

Thesis: Computational Inverse Design of Shape Morphing Structures

Next Position: Assistant Professor at IST Austria


Ziqi Wang

Thesis: Computational Analysis and Design of Structurally Stable Assemblies with Rigid Parts

Next Position: Postdoc at ETH Zurich


Mina Konakovic

Thesis: Computational Design of Auxetic Shells

Next Position: Postdoc at MIT


Anastasia Tkach

Thesis: Real-Time Generative Hand Modeling and Tracking

Next Position: Google


Alexandru-Eugen Ichim

Thesis: Physics-based Reconstruction and Animation of Humans

Next Position: Facebook


Stefan Lienhard

Thesis: Visualization, Adaptation, and Transformation of Procedural Grammars

Next Position: VirtaMed


Minh Dang

Thesis: Analysis and Synthesis of Structured Variations in 3D Geometries

Next Position: Dassault Systemes


Sofien Bouaziz

Thesis: Realtime Face Tracking and Animation

Next Position: Apple


Mario Deuss

Thesis: Computational Methods for Fabrication-aware Modeling, Rationalization and Assembly of Architectural Structures

Next Position: VirtaMed


Yuliy Schwartzburg

Thesis: Fabrication-Aware Design with Performative Criteria

Next Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at EPFL


Duygu Ceylan

Thesis: Computational Shape Understanding for 3D Reconstruction and Modeling

Next Position: Researcher at Adobe Research


Hao Li

Thesis: Animation Reconstruction of Deformable Surfaces

Next Position: Professor at University of Southern California


Michael Eigensatz

Thesis: Constraint-Based Surface Processing for Geometric Modeling and Architecture

Next Position: Software Engineer at Cyfex AG


Bálint Miklós

Thesis: The scale axis transform

Next Position: Software Engineer at Google


Richard Keiser

Thesis: Meshless Lagrangian Methods for Physics-Based Animations of Solids and Fluids

Next Position: Head of Engineering at Vizrt

Postdoc Alumni

Davide Pellis

Next Position: Researcher at ISTI-CNR, Italy


Tim Chen

Next Position: Assistant professor at University of Houston


Julian Panetta

Next Position: Assistant professor at UC Davis


Christopher Brandt

Next Position: paternity leave


Peng Song

Next Position: Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design


Niranjan Thanikachalam

Next Position: Rayform


Yuliy Schwartzburg

Next Position: Rayform


Andrea Tagliasacchi

Next Position: Professor at University of Victoria


Bailin Deng

Next Position: Lecturer at Cardiff University


Boris Neubert

Next Position: Professor at Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)


Juyong Zhang

Next Position: Professor at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)


Thibaut Weise

Next Position: CEO at faceshift AG


Brian Amberg

Next Position: CTO at faceshift AG


Hao Li

Next Position: Professor at University of Southern California


Camille Wormser

Next Position: Software Engineer at Google


Bob Sumner

Next Position: Associate Director at Disney Research


Visitors

Liane Makatura

September 2017 – July 2018


Summer Interns

Yuwei Xiao

2019


Jie Pan

2019


Jean Jouve

2019


Xiaofei Wang

2018


Yingying (Samara) Ren

2018


Anna Goncharova

2018


Other Past Members

Robin Jodon

Ulysse Martel