Keenan Crane
Associate Professor
Develops discrete differential geometry methods for geometry processing and simulation.
Keenan Crane's lab at CMU works on geometry processing & modeling, physics-based simulation & animation and physics, climate & scientific computing. 19 papers since 2023, 17 at top venues, mostly TOG. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 89%
- PhD students
- —
- MS students
- —
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 3
- 7 papers2024 · T1 6
- 4 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TOG
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Geometry processing & modeling1 paper
- Physics-based simulation & animation0 papers
- Physics, climate & scientific computing0 papers
- geometry0 papers
- discrete differential0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- TOG (T1)Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point Clouds
- TOG (T1)Robust Planar Maps for 3D Vectorization
- TOG (T1)Subgrid Marching Tetrahedra
- TOG (T1)Untangling Surfaces via Shape and Mesh Repulsion
20254 papers
- TOG (T1)Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest
- TOG (T1)Rectangular Surface Parameterization
- TOG (T1)Solving Partial Differential Equations in Participating Media
- Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference CoursesState of the Art in Grid-Free Monte Carlo Methods for Partial Differential Equations
20247 papers
- TOG (T1)A Heat Method for Generalized Signed Distance
- TOG (T1)Differential Walk on Spheres
- TOG (T1)I$\heartsuit$Mesh: A DSL for Mesh Processing
- ACM SIGGRAPH Conference ProceedingsMinkowski Penalties: Robust Differentiable Constraint Enforcement for Vector Graphics
- TOG (T1)Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions
- TOG (T1)Repulsive Shells
- TOG (T1)Walkin' Robin: Walk on Stars with Robin Boundary Conditions
20234 papers
- TOG (T1)Boundary Value Caching for Walk on Spheres
- TOG (T1)Surface Simplification using Intrinsic Error Metrics
- TOG (T1)Walk on Stars: A Grid-Free Monte Carlo Method for PDEs with Neumann Boundary Conditions
- TOG (T1)Winding Numbers on Discrete Surfaces
Where alumni went
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Apply to CMUFall 2027
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