Andrew Spielberg
Assistant Professor
Develops AI tools for engineering design, including differentiable simulation and computational design of soft robots.
Andrew Spielberg's lab at CMU works on soft, surgical & micro robots, geometry processing & modeling and physics-based simulation & animation. 10 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and ICLR. 7 PhD students and 3 master's students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 60%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 0 papers2025 · T1 0
- 2 papers2024 · T1 0
- 8 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, L4DC, Nature Machine Intelligence
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots4 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation2 papers
- design2 papers
- Geometry processing & modeling1 paper
- engineering design0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20242 papers
20238 papers
- RoboticaAdvanced Soft Robot Modeling In ChainQueen (opens in a new tab)
- L4DCBenchmarking Rigid Body Contact Models (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Breeding Soft Robots With Physics-Augmented Generative Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- PNAS (T1)Efficient Automatic Design of Robots (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Neural Fields with Hard Constraints of Arbitrary Differential Order (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Review on Differentiable Visual Computing (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)SoftZoo (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Zero-Shot Transfer of Haptics-Based Object Insertion Policies (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
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Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
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