CN ZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Hujun Bao Cheung Kong Professor Leads the 3D graphics computing group, working on geometry computing, 3D visual computing and real-time rendering for interactive digital environments.
Rendering & appearance Geometry processing & modeling2026 Beyond Isolated Objects: Relationship-Aware Open Vocabulary Scene Understanding via 3D Scene Graph Analysis ECCV 2026 Component Modes Synthesis Method with Multiple Partitions for Large-scale Eigenvalue Problem TOG 114 T1 · 153 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
Leonidas Guibas Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Studies 3D geometric data analysis, shape understanding and 3D scene generation.
3D vision & neural rendering Geometry processing & modeling Generative 3D & visual content2026 DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration ICRA 2026 Dynamic Reflections: Probing Video Representations with Text Alignment ICLR 102 T1 · 114 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Daniela Rus Director, CSAIL; Panasonic Professor Studies robotics, including soft robots, self-driving cars for mobility on demand, and rapid robot design and fabrication.
Autonomous vehicles & drones Soft, surgical & micro robots Geometry processing & modeling2026 ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment ICLR 2026 Colonial Architectures for Centimeter-Scale Underwater Robot Swarms ICRA 81 T1 · 136 papers · Group size not listed SaveSG NTUCollege of Computing and Data Science
Works on computer graphics, geometric modeling and processing, and computer-aided design.
Geometry processing & modeling Rendering & appearance Data management & big data2026 AquaSplatting: A Hybrid 3D Representation for Robust Underwater Scene Reconstruction via Dual-Branch Rendering AAAI 2026 Denoising-GS: Gaussian Splatting with Spatial-aware Denoising ECCV 54 T1 · 77 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS Georgia TechElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Pan Li Associate Professor Studies machine learning on graphs, including geometric deep learning for science and graph methods for trustworthy LLMs.
Trustworthy & safe ML Graph learning Geometry processing & modeling2026 ∇-Reasoner: LLM Reasoning via Test-Time Gradient Descent in Latent Space ICLR 2026 How Can State Space Models Enhance Machine Learning on Graphs? TPAMI 41 T1 · 60 papers · 7 members · 20 alumni SaveUS MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Builds AI for the physical world, combining representations, physics simulation, and fabrication hardware such as self-monitoring 3D printers to design…
Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 A Genetic Algorithm for Navigating Synthesizable Molecular Spaces ICLR 2026 Bayesian Post Training Enhancement of Regression Models with Calibrated Rankings ICLR 37 T1 · 80 papers · 8 members · 35 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Bo Zhu Associate Professor Develops physics simulation algorithms for fluids and scientific machine learning for computational design.
Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 A Few-Step Generative Model on Cumulative Flow Maps TOG 2026 Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds NeurIPS 34 T1 · 48 papers · 8 members · 49 alumni SaveGB ImperialDepartment of Computing Dec 1
Leads the CIRCLE group on 3D computer vision, geometric and topological deep learning for spatial intelligence.
3D vision & neural rendering Geometry processing & modeling2026 Adversarial Vulnerability from Interference Between Features in Superposition ICML 2026 Collapsed Effective Operators for Higher-order Structures ICML 32 T1 · 38 papers · 13 members · 4 alumni SaveCH ETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)
Leads the Computational Robotics Lab, working on physics-based modelling and control for robots, computational fabrication of robotic devices and character…
Planning, control & multi-robot systems Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling2026 A Unified Homogenization Framework for Straight- and Curved-Crease Origami Materials TOG 2026 IsoGami: Rigid-Deployable Kirigami Materials From Isohedral Tilings SIGGRAPH 31 T1 · 59 papers · 10 members · 17 alumni SaveCH EPFLInstitute of Mechanical Engineering (IGM, School of Engineering STI) Dec 1
Josie Hughes Tenure Track Assistant Professor Leads the CREATE Lab for computational robot design and fabrication, using data-driven methods to design and build soft and dexterous robots.
Manipulation & robot learning Geometry processing & modeling2026 A detachable crawling robotic hand Nature Communications 2026 A Survey of Behavior Foundation Model: Next-Generation Whole-Body Control System of Humanoid Robots TPAMI 25 T1 · 82 papers · 17 members · 6 alumni SaveGB ImperialDepartment of Computing Dec 1
Joey Bose Assistant Professor of Computing Leads the Bose Lab building generative models for science, including geometric deep learning and flow-based models for molecules and proteins.
Generative & foundation models Graph learning Geometry processing & modeling2026 Aligning Flow Map Policies with Optimal Q-Guidance NeurIPS 2026 Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators ICML 24 T1 · 28 papers · 7 members · 2 alumni SaveUS UCSDHalıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Dec 15
Develops geometric and topological data analysis methods and graph neural networks with theoretical guarantees.
Learning theory & optimization Graph learning Geometry processing & modeling2026 Beyond FlatWalks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Graph Generation NeurIPS 2026 Do Graph Neural Networks Learn Generalizable Algorithms for Clustering Graphs? NeurIPS 24 T1 · 35 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN PekingSchool of Intelligence Science and Technology Jan 15
Researches 3D vision computing, environment geometric modeling, 3D object recognition and dynamic object tracking for machine perception.
3D vision & neural rendering Recognition, detection & segmentation Geometry processing & modeling2026 AMG-SLAM: Adaptive Monocular Gaussian SLAM for Efficient Surface Reconstruction ICRA 2026 AutoPhyX: Automatic Text-Condition Physics Property Generation ECCV 20 T1 · 38 papers · Group size not listed SaveCH ETH ZurichDepartment of Architecture
Researches computer graphics and computational design, including physics-based simulation, generative models for design and digital fabrication.
Geometry processing & modeling Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2025 Acoustic Reliefs TOG 2025 Automated Design of Compound Lenses with Discrete-Continuous Optimization SIGGRAPH Asia 19 T1 · 25 papers · 9 members SaveUS MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Justin Solomon Associate Dean of Engineering Education, MIT School of Engineering; Associate Professor of EECS Studies geometry processing and geometric machine learning, including inverse geometry processing and learning bases for function spaces.
Geometry processing & modeling2026 Learning Orthonormal Bases for Function Spaces NeurIPS 2026 WRING Out The Bias: A Rotation-Based Alternative To Projection Debiasing ICLR 19 T1 · 36 papers · 9 members · 129 alumni SaveSG NTUCollege of Computing and Data Science
Works on computer-aided geometric design, T-splines, computer graphics and 3D digital geometry processing.
Geometry processing & modeling Rendering & appearance Data management & big data2026 Bidirectional Query-Driven Generation of Parametric CAD Sketch CVPR 2026 FUSER: Feed-Forward Multiview 3D Registration Transformer and SE(3)$^N$ Diffusion Refinement CVPR 18 T1 · 37 papers · Group size not listed SaveGB UCLDepartment of Computer Science
Niloy Mitra Professor of Geometry Processing Leads the Smart Geometry Processing group, developing machine learning frameworks for generative 3D geometry and appearance.
Geometry processing & modeling Rendering & appearance2026 B-repLer: Language-guided Editing of CAD Models Proceedings SIGGRAPH Conference Papers 2026 Foreword to the special section on 3D object retrieval 2025 Symposium (3DOR2025) COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK 18 T1 · 43 papers · Group size not listed SaveCH ETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)
Leads the Interactive Geometry Lab, working on geometry processing, shape deformation and editing, discrete differential geometry and geometric deep learning.
Geometry processing & modeling Graph learning2026 2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization SIGGRAPH 2026 Fabricating 3D Shapes by Shrinking-Thread Embroidery SIGGRAPH Asia 18 T1 · 37 papers · 3 members · 29 alumni SaveCA TorontoComputer Science Dec 1
Studies discrete differential geometry and physics-based animation of rods, shells and contact.
Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling2026 Low-Rank Koopman Deformables with Log-Linear Time Integration TOG 2026 Script2Screen: Supporting Dialogue-Centric Scriptwriting with Interactive Audiovisual Generation IUI 17 T1 · 21 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS NYUComputer Science (Courant) Dec 12
Joan Bruna Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Studies the mathematical foundations of deep learning, including high-dimensional statistics, neural network optimization and geometric deep learning.
Learning theory & optimization Graph learning Geometry processing & modeling2025 Axial Neural Networks for Dimension-Free Foundation Models NeurIPS 2025 Benefits of Rank in Attention Layers ICLR 17 T1 · 19 papers · 3 members · 25 alumni Save