Guo Han et al. — IsoGami: Rigid-Deployable Kirigami Materials From Isohedral Tilings. ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference Papers.

M. Li et al. — A Unified Homogenization Framework for Straight- and Curved-Crease Origami Materials. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2026).

Haoyang Zhou et al. — Closed-Form Construction of Voronoi Diagrams with Star-Shaped Metrics. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025).

D. Corigliano et al. — NeuRiPhy: Neural Baking of Physics-Based Deformations for Facial Rigs. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2025.

A. Grigorev et al. — ContourCraft: Learning to Resolve Intersections in Neural Multi-Garment Simulations. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024.

L. Numerow et al. — Differentiable Voronoi Diagrams for Simulation of Cell-Based Mechanical Systems. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024).

Juan Montes Maestre et al. — FlexScale: Modeling and Characterization of Flexible Scaled Sheets. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024).

J. Montes et al. — ToRoS: A Topology Optimization Approach for Designing Robotic Skins. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023).

Y. Li et al. — Neural Metamaterial Networks. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023).

P. Tang et al. — Beyond Chainmail: Computational Modeling of Discrete Interlocking Materials. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2023).

Welcome

My research lies at the intersection of computer graphics, computational mechanics, and digital manufacturing, where I develop computational methods for modeling and design of complex physical systems. I am particularly interested in applications to mechanical metamaterials, robotics, and digital humans, leveraging physics-based simulation, optimization-driven design, and neural representations to bridge the gap between virtual models and real-world performance.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Tübingen in 2010, followed by a postdoctoral stay at the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich. I joined Disney Research Zurich in 2011, where I spent six years as a researcher and group leader. In 2017, I moved to the University of Montreal, where I was a tenured professor in the Computer Science department until 2020. I am currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Computational Robotics Laboratory (CRL).

I received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Canadian Computer Science Association in 2018 and was named NSERC Canada Research Chair in 2019.