Bernd Bickel
Full Professor
Researches computer graphics and computational design, including physics-based simulation, generative models for design and digital fabrication.
Bernd Bickel's lab at ETH Zurich works on geometry processing & modeling, physics-based simulation & animation and physics, climate & scientific computing. 25 papers since 2023, 19 at top venues, mostly TOG and SIGGRAPH. 9 PhD students.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 76%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 10
- 4 papers2024 · T1 2
- 9 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TOG, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CGF, 3DV
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Geometry processing & modeling1 paper
- Physics-based simulation & animation1 paper
- Physics, climate & scientific computing1 paper
- digital fabrication0 papers
- physics-based simulation0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202512 papers
- Building and EnvironmentA review on artificial intelligence applications for facades (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Acoustic Reliefs (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Automated Design of Compound Lenses with Discrete-Continuous Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Designing with Tension: Nearly-Developable Patch Layouts (opens in a new tab)
- Pacific Graphics , Conference TrackEasy Modeling of Man-Made Shapes in Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Fabricable Discretized Ruled Surfaces (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)HiGS: Inverse Radiative Transport for Infrared Scenes with Gaussian Primitives (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)HyPINO: Multi-Physics Neural Operators via HyperPINNs and the Method of Manufactured Solutions (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Inverse Design of Interlocking Materials with Desired Mechanical Behavior (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)MIND: Microstructure INverse Design with Generative Hybrid Neural Representation (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Practical Inverse Rendering of Textured and Translucent Appearance (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)VLMaterial: Procedural Material Generation with Large Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
20239 papers
- International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Springer, .A Deeper Analysis of Volumetric Relightable Faces (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Methods (T1)Dense 4D Nanoscale Reconstruction of Living Brain Tissue (opens in a new tab)
- CGFDirectionality-Aware Design of Embroidery Patterns (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Gloss-Aware Color Correction For 3D Printing (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)PCBend: Light Up Your 3D Shapes With Foldable Circuit Boards (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Procedural Metamaterials: A Unified Procedural Graph for Metamaterial Design (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Skin-Screen: A Computational Fabrication Framework for Color Tattoos (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Stealth Shaper: Reflectivity Optimization as Surface Stylization (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)The Design Space of Kirchhoff Rods (opens in a new tab)
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