CN TsinghuaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Feb 28
Works on urban science and computing, AI for spatio-temporal and mobility data, and large-model agents for social simulation.
Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 AgentSwift: Efficient LLM Agent Design via Value-guided Hierarchical Search AAAI 2026 Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists' impact but contract science's focus Nature 122 T1 · 175 papers · 53 members · 72 alumni SaveGB CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Dec 8
Mihaela van der Schaar John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI and Medicine Develops machine learning and AI methods for medicine, including synthetic data, time-series analysis and models of clinical decision-making.
Medical imaging & healthcare AI Physics, climate & scientific computing Reinforcement learning2026 A Study of Posterior Stability in Time-Series Latent Diffusion ICLR 2026 Deep Hierarchical Learning with Nested Subspace Networks for Large Language Models ICLR 100 T1 · 120 papers · Group size not listed SaveHK CUHKDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Dec 1
Pheng Ann Heng Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Develops AI and virtual reality for medical applications, including medical image analysis and surgical simulation.
Medical imaging & healthcare AI Physics, climate & scientific computing Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Attenuation-Resilient Alternating Optimization for Laparoscopic Liver Landmark Detection MICCAI 2026 Benchmarking Endoscopic Surgical Image Restoration and Beyond CVPR 94 T1 · 174 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS UMDComputer Science
Researches physically based simulation, differentiable physics and multimodal interaction for graphics, robotics and autonomous driving.
Physics-based simulation & animation Embodied & active vision Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Accelerated Learning with Linear Temporal Logic using Differentiable Simulation ICLR 2026 Adaptive Conformal Guidance for Learning under Uncertainty ICLR 37 T1 · 44 papers · 9 members · 72 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 SaveDE TUMDepartment of Computer Science
Develops deep learning methods for PDE-based physics simulations, including differentiable physics solvers for fluids.
Physics, climate & scientific computing Physics-based simulation & animation2026 A neural operator framework for data-driven discovery of stability and receptivity in physical systems PNAS 2026 Compute-optimal data scaling for neural surrogates via multi-fidelity training NeurIPS 28 T1 · 41 papers · 11 members · 20 alumni SaveCN ZhejiangSchool of Artificial Intelligence Feb 28
Builds AI agents that act in physical, digital and scientific environments and improve from verifiable feedback, with work on large language models and AI for…
Large language models Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Attention as Selector: Unlocking VLM Attention for Long Document Page Retrieval ACL 2026 GPD: Guided Progressive Distillation for Fast and High-Quality Video Generation IJCAI 27 T1 · 33 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
Fredrik Kjolstad Assistant Professor of Computer Science Builds compilers for sparse tensor algebra and array programming used in scientific computing and machine learning.
Compilers & programming languages Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 A Compiler for Fused Relational Operations on Multisets PACMPL 2026 Bonsai: Compiling Queries to Pruned Tree Traversals PACMPL 21 T1 · 30 papers · 9 members · 4 alumni SaveDE TUMTUM School of Engineering and Design
Develops signal processing and machine learning methods for extracting geo-information from large Earth observation data, with applications to global…
Physics, climate & scientific computing Signal processing & information theory Speech enhancement & signal processing2026 Beyond Pixel-wise Supervision: Local Structure Regularization for Semantic Segmentation NeurIPS 2026 Comparison Study: Glacier Calving Front Delineation in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images With Deep Learning TPAMI 21 T1 · 231 papers · 24 members · 40 alumni 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 StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
Ron Dror Cheriton Family Professor Combines molecular simulation and machine learning to study biomolecular structure and drug discovery.
Proteins, drugs & materials Physics, climate & scientific computing Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Mechanism of gating and isoform-specific inhibition in renal CLC chloride channels PNAS 2026 Molecular mechanism of exchange coupling in CLC chloride/proton antiporters Nature Communications 18 T1 · 33 papers · 9 members · 36 alumni SaveUS CMUComputer Science Department Dec 9
Develops discrete differential geometry methods for geometry processing and simulation.
Geometry processing & modeling Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point Clouds TOG 2026 Robust Planar Maps for 3D Vectorization TOG 17 T1 · 19 papers · Group size not listed SaveCH ETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)
Researches high-performance computing and datacenter architecture, including scalable training systems for large machine learning models, networking and…
Distributed, cloud & edge systems Accelerators, chips & architecture Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Beyond Outliers: A Study of Optimizers Under Quantization ICLR 2026 Demystifying Higher-Order Graph Neural Networks TPAMI 16 T1 · 100 papers · 20 members · 65 alumni SaveUS UMDComputer Science
Studies spatial audio, auditory scene analysis and fast multipole methods for scientific computing, with applications in perceptual interfaces.
Music, audio & sound Physics, climate & scientific computing Interfaces & interaction techniques2026 FIGMA: Towards FIne-Grained Music retrievAl ACL 2026 MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence AAAI 15 T1 · 25 papers · 22 members · 18 alumni SaveCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Tao Du Assistant Professor Works on computational design and simulation at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and robotics.
Geometry processing & modeling Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Learning to Reconfigure: Configuration-Control Co-optimization of Reconfigurable Robots for Heterogeneous Locomotion ICML 2026 Simple yet Effective: Low-Rank Spatial Attention for Neural Operators ICML 15 T1 · 18 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS NYUComputer Science (Courant) Dec 12
Works on geometry processing, mesh generation, physical simulation and digital fabrication in computer graphics.
Geometry processing & modeling Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 NeLU3D: Neural Inverse Structured Light without Modeling the Projector ECCV 2026 Surface chamfering for robust tetrahedral meshing SIGGRAPH 14 T1 · 25 papers · 10 members · 35 alumni SaveUS NYUComputer Science (Courant) Dec 12
Denis Zorin Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Works on geometric modeling, subdivision surfaces, meshing and fluid and solid simulation for computer graphics.
Geometry processing & modeling Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 NeLU3D: Neural Inverse Structured Light without Modeling the Projector ECCV 2026 Surface chamfering for robust tetrahedral meshing SIGGRAPH 14 T1 · 25 papers · 10 members · 35 alumni SaveUS CMUComputer Science Department Dec 9
Jessica K. Hodgins Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science And Robotics Studies computer animation and robotics, including human motion capture, simulation and legged locomotion.
Physics-based simulation & animation Legged locomotion & humanoids Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Contact-guided Real2Sim from Monocular Video with Planar Scene Primitives ICLR 2026 ZEST: Zero-shot embodied skill transfer for athletic robot control Sci. Robotics 11 T1 · 16 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Researches computer graphics, physics-based simulation and scientific visualization.
Physics-based simulation & animation Rendering & appearance Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Functional Mean Flow in Hilbert Space CVPR 2026 Generative Modeling with Orbit-Space Particle Flow Matching TOG 10 T1 · 13 papers · 1 member · 19 alumni Save