Ming C. Lin
Professor
Researches physically based simulation, differentiable physics and multimodal interaction for graphics, robotics and autonomous driving.
Ming C. Lin's lab at UMD works on physics-based simulation & animation, embodied & active vision and physics, climate & scientific computing. 44 papers since 2023, 37 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 72 alumni, most often to Google and Amazon.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 84%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 72
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 9
- 12 papers2024 · T1 11
- 11 papers2023 · T1 9
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- differentiable10 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation9 papers
- Physics, climate & scientific computing3 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- physically1 paper
Paper list
From DBLP.
20269 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.2026 IEEE RAS Award Recipients Announced [Society News] (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Accelerated Learning with Linear Temporal Logic using Differentiable Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Adaptive Conformal Guidance for Learning under Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)GM3: A General Physical Model for Micro-Mobility Vehicles (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)MeshSplatting: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Meshes (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)OpenVO: Open-World Visual Odometry with Temporal Dynamics Awareness (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)SonoWorld: From One Image to a 3D Audio-Visual Scene (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SSQA: Sibling-Selective Quadtree Attention for Hierarchical Modeling in Perception Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)Text-Conditioned Background Generation for Editable Multi-layer Documents (opens in a new tab)
202512 papers
- ICML (T1)Adaptive Sensitivity Analysis for Robust Augmentation against Natural Corruptions in Image Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)An Adjoint Method for Differentiable Fluid Simulation on Flow Maps (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)CAML: Collaborative Auxiliary Modality Learning for Multi-Agent Systems (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DISC: Dataset for Analyzing Driving Styles in Simulated Crashes for Mixed Autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)DMesh++: An Efficient Differentiable Mesh for Complex Shapes (opens in a new tab)
- VR WorkshopEvent-Driven Lighting for Immersive Attention Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MMFinancial Models meets Generative Art: Black-Scholes-Inspired Concept Blending in Text-to-Image Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization with Parallelized Differentiable Traffic Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH CoursesGraphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)MMCD: Multi-Modal Collaborative Decision-Making for Connected Autonomy with Knowledge Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Quantifying and Modeling Driving Styles in Trajectory Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Time-Aware World Model for Adaptive Prediction and Control (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- ICML (T1)An Intrinsic Vector Heat Network (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Collaborative Decision-Making Using Spatiotemporal Graphs in Connected Autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Deep Stochastic Kinematic Models for Probabilistic Motion Forecasting in Traffic (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Differentiable Quantum Computing for Large-scale Linear Control (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)DMesh: A Differentiable Mesh Representation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)HandyPriors: Physically Consistent Perception of Hand-Object Interactions with Differentiable Priors (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)ICAR: Image-Based Complementary Auto Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Comput. Vis. MediaMessage from the Best Paper Award Committee (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)MTG: Mapless Trajectory Generator with Traversability Coverage for Outdoor Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Task-Driven Domain-Agnostic Learning with Information Bottleneck for Autonomous Steering (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)TRAVERSE: Traffic-Responsive Autonomous Vehicle Experience & Rare-event Simulation for Enhanced safety (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)ViLA: Efficient Video-Language Alignment for Video Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
202311 papers
- ICRA (T1)A Framework for Active Haptic Guidance Using Robotic Haptic Proxies (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsAerial Diffusion: Text Guided Ground-to-Aerial View Synthesis from a Single Image using Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Auxiliary Modality Learning with Generalized Curriculum Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DifFAR: Differentiable Frequency-based Disentanglement for Aerial Video Action Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Dynamic Mesh-Aware Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Gradient Informed Proximal Policy Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)PAC-NeRF: Physics Augmented Continuum Neural Radiance Fields for Geometry-Agnostic System Identification (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Robotics Res.Selected papers from WAFR2020 (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Small-shot Multi-modal Distillation for Vision-based Autonomous Steering (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Traffic-Aware Autonomous Driving with Differentiable Traffic Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Visual, Spatial, Geometric-Preserved Place Recognition for Cross-View and Cross-Modal Collaborative Perception (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went72 listed, 74% to industry
Industry 35Academia 12
Most often to
- Amazon
- NVIDIA
Also to
- Cornell University
- MIT
- Nankai University
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