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
Current Position: Assistant Professor at IST Austria
Ziqi Wang
Thesis: Computational Analysis and Design of Structurally Stable Assemblies with Rigid Parts
Current Position: Assistant Professor at HKUST
Mina Konakovic-Lukovic
Thesis: Computational Design of Auxetic Shells
Current Position: Assistant Professor at MIT
Anastasia Tkach
Thesis: Real-Time Generative Hand Modeling and Tracking
Current Position: Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs
Alexandru-Eugen Ichim
Thesis: Physics-based Reconstruction and Animation of Humans
Current Position: Software Engineer at Google AR/VR
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
Current Position: Software Engineer at Facebook AR/VR
Sofien Bouaziz
Thesis: Realtime Face Tracking and Animation
Current Position: Senior Director, Research & Engineering, @Meta – Reality Labs
Mario Deuss
Current Position: ETH AI Center
Yuliy Schwartzburg
Thesis: Fabrication-Aware Design with Performative Criteria
Current Position: Software Engineering Manager at Canonical
Duygu Ceylan
Thesis: Computational Shape Understanding for 3D Reconstruction and Modeling
Current Position: Principal Research Scientist at Adobe Research
Hao Li
Thesis: Animation Reconstruction of Deformable Surfaces
Current Position: Professor at MBZUAI
Michael Eigensatz
Thesis: Constraint-Based Surface Processing for Geometric Modeling and Architecture
Current Position: Software Engineer at Google
Bálint Miklós
Thesis: The scale axis transform
Current Position: Principal Software Engineer at Google
Richard Keiser
Thesis: Meshless Lagrangian Methods for Physics-Based Animations of Solids and Fluids
Current Position: Director SW Platform and IT Infrastructure Department at Varian
Postdoc Alumni
Oliver Gross
Next Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of San Diego
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