Minchen Li
Assistant Professor
Develops physics-based simulation methods for computer graphics, including contact and deformable-body simulation.
Minchen Li's lab at CMU works on physics-based simulation & animation, rendering & appearance and physics, climate & scientific computing. 28 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly SIGGRAPH and TOG. 5 PhD students and 1 master's student. 21 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 36%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 1
- 5 papers2024 · T1 2
- 9 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGGRAPH, TOG, SIGGRAPH Asia
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Physics-based simulation & animation7 papers
- simulation5 papers
- Physics, climate & scientific computing1 paper
- Rendering & appearance0 papers
- simulation methods0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- SIGGRAPH (T1)AGIPC: Adaptive In-Solve Algebraic Coarsening for GPU IPC
- Computational MechanicsAn Overlapping Schwarz Space-Time Refinement Framework for Multi-Resolution Material Point Method
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Computational Design of Terrestrial Robots with Anisotropic Friction
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)Efficient B-Spline Finite Elements for Cloth Simulation
- TOG (T1)Energy-Controllable Time Integration for Elastodynamic Contact
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)Heterogeneous Subspace Corrections for GPU Deformable Multibody Dynamics
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)PAT3D: Physics-Augmented Text-to-3D Scene Generation
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)Penetration-free Solid-Fluid Interaction on Shells and Rods
- TOG (T1)Robust and Efficient Penetration-Free Elastodynamics without Barriers
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)Untangling Surfaces via Shape and Mesh Repulsion
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)YASPS: A Symbolic Framework for Extensible, High-Performance IPC Simulation
20253 papers
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)CK-MPM: A Compact-Kernel Material Point Method
- TOG (T1)StiffGIPC: Advancing GPU IPC for Stiff Affine-Deformable Simulation
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)VR-Doh: Hands-on 3D Modeling in Virtual Reality
20245 papers
- SIGGRAPH (T1)A Dynamic Duo of Finite Elements and Material Points
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)Barrier-Augmented Lagrangian for GPU-based Elastodynamic Contact
- International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods for Geomechanics (IJNAMG)Mapped Material Point Method for Large Deformation Problems with Sharp Gradients and Its Application to Soil-Structure Interactions
- Computational MechanicsUnstructured Moving Least Squares Material Point Methods: A Stable Kernel Approach with Continuous Gradient Reconstruction on General Unstructured Tessellations
- SIGGRAPH (T1)VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality
20239 papers
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)A Contact Proxy Splitting Method for Lagrangian Solid-Fluid Coupling
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)Augmented Incremental Potential Contact for Sticky Interactions
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)Efficient Learning of Mesh-Based Physical Simulation with Bi-Stride Multi-Scale GNN
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Multi-Layer Thick Shells
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Neural Stress Fields for Reduced-order Elastoplasticity and Fracture
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)Power Plastics: A Hybrid Lagrangian/Eulerian Solver for Mesoscale Inelastic Flows
- EngineeringReconfigurable Data Glove for Reconstructing Physical and Virtual Grasps
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)Second-order Stencil Descent for Interior-point Hyperelasticity
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Subspace-Preconditioned GPU Projective Dynamics with Contact for Cloth Simulation
Where alumni went21 listed
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