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Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

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Academic Positions

Associate Professor (with tenure), 2022–present
Department of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics (courtesy)
University of Toronto

Senior Research Scientist, 2021–present
Adobe Research Toronto

Faculty Affiliate, 2020–present
Vector Institute

Assistant Professor, 2016–2022
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

Canada Research Chair in Geometry Processing, 2017–present

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2016
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2014
Department of Computer Science
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2013
ETH Zurich
Thesis: Algorithms and Interfaces for Real-Time Deformation of 2D and 3D Shapes
Advisor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung

MA in Computer Science, 2011
Courant Institute, New York University
Advisors: Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Denis Zorin

BA with joint major in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2009
Courant Institute, New York University
Advisor: Denis Zorin

Awards and Honors

2023 CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Research Award
2023 Outstanding Teaching Award
2022 Canada Research Chair renewal
2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
2022 ACM SIGGRAPH North America, Best Paper Award
2021 ICCV, Sketching for Human Expressively Workshop, Best Paper Award
2020 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
2020 ACM Distinguished Speaker
2020 NeurIPS Top 10% Reviewer
2019 Ontario Early Researcher Award
2019 Eurographics Best Paper, Honourable mention
2018 Back cover image on Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH North America
2018 Computer Graphics Forum Cover Image
2018 Graphics Interface Best Poster Award
2017 Eurographics Significant Young Researcher Award
2017 Canada Research Chair
2017 Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Dataset Award
2017 Eurographics Junior Fellow
2017 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (1 of 125 across Canada)
2017 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation Best Poster Award
2016 Connaught New Researcher
2015 Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award
2015 US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow
2015 NYCASCENT Fellow
2015 Back cover image on Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
2014 Eurographics Best PhD Thesis
2014 Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher
2013 ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, top 8% university-wide
2013 Intel PhD Fellowship
2011 Back cover image on Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH North America
2009 New York University Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship (3 years)
2009 Grand Prize, Games For Learning Institute Game Design Challenge
2009 New York University Founder’s Day Award

Research Funding

2023 Adobe gift
2023 LEAF+
$10,000
2022 Adobe gift
2022 NSERC Discovery
$370,000 CAD
2022 DSI Catalyst Grant
$100,000 CAD
2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
$75,000 USD
2021 Fields Institute, FURSP
four summer undergraduate research fellows
2021 Fields Institute
Symposium on Geometry Processing Funding
$10,000 CAD
2020 Fields Institute, FURSP
four summer undergraduate research fellows
2020 Fields Institute
Hackathon Funding
$15,000 CAD
2019–2020 SSHRC-CRSH New Frontiers in Research Fund 11.9% acceptance rate
$250,000 CAD
2019 Autodesk gift
2019 Ontario Early Researcher Award
$140,000 CAD
2019 Facebook Oculus Hardware gift
2019 Fields Institute
Workshop Funding
$25,000 CAD
2018–2020 Fields Institute CQAM Lab
$160,000 CAD
2018 Mitacs Globalink Research Award - Campus France
$3,500 CAD
2018 Autodesk gift
2018 MESH Inc. gift
2018 Fields Institute
Workshop Funding
$25,000 CAD
2018 NSERC USRA
one summer undergraduate research fellow
2018 Fields Institute, FURSP
three summer undergraduate research fellows
2018 Engineering Science Research Opportunities Fund
one summer undergraduate research fellow
2018 Fields Institute
one visiting faculty researcher
$3,500 CAD
2017–2022 NSERC Discovery, RGPIN–2017–05235
$155,000 CAD
2017–2020 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, RGPAS–2017–507938
$120,000 CAD
2017–2022 Canada Research Chair
$158,335 CAD
2017–2018 Fields Institute
one visiting faculty researcher
$10,500 CAD
2017 Fields Institute, FURSP
four summer undergraduate research fellows
2017 NSERC USRA
one summer undergraduate research fellow
2016–present Adobe Systems gift
2016–2017 Connaught New Researcher Award
$10,000 CAD
2015 SGP Software Award
€1,000 EUR
2014 US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow
€200 EUR
2012 Intel Doctoral Student Honor Programme
$35,000 USD

ACM SIGGRAPH Publications

Additional Journal and Conference Proceedings Publications

Juried Demos, Workshop Courses, Posters, & Technical Reports

Open-source Projects

libigl: A Simple C++ Geometry Processing Library
Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, and others
2013–present
gptoolbox: Geometry Processing Toolbox for MATLAB
Alec Jacobson and others
2013–present
thingi10K: Ten Thousand 3D Models for Testing Robustness of Geometric Algorithms
Qingnan Zhou and Alec Jacobson
2016–present

Employment

2022–present University of Toronto Associate Professor
2021–present Adobe Research Senior Research Scientist
2016–2022 University of Toronto Assistant Professor
2019–2021 Adobe Research Visiting Professor, Consultant
2014–2016 Columbia University
Mentor: Eitan Grinspun
Postdoctoral researcher & co-instructor
2013–2014 ETH Zurich
Mentor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Postdoctoral researcher & teaching assistant
2011–2013 ETH Zurich
Advisor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Graduate researcher & teaching assistant
2010 Adobe Research
Advisor: Jovan Popović
Summer research intern
2009–2011 New York University
Advisors: Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Denis Zorin
Graduate researcher
2008–2009 New York University
Advisors: Denis Zorin, Yotam Gingold
Undergraduate researcher
2008 IBM
Advisor: Chuck Wallace
Summer programming intern
2007 Mayo Clinic
Advisor: Željko Bajzer
Summer research intern

Conference Talks

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)
libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++
July 1, 2020
Pacific Graphics
RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication
using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods
October, 17, 2019
Graphics Interface (invited talk)
Interactive Design of Castable Shapes Using Two-Piece Rigid Molds
May 31, 2019
Graphics Interface (invited course)
libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++
May 8, 2018
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++
November 29, 2017
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing
Generalized Matryoshka: Computational Design of Nesting Objects
July 3, 2017
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)
libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++
July 1, 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH North America
Computational Design of Reconfigurables
July 27, 2016
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)
Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Direct Methods & Automatic Methods”
June 18, 2016
Graphics Interface (invited talk)
Large-Scale Painting of Photographs by Interactive Optimization
June 3, 2016
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)
Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Direct Methods & Automatic Methods”
July 5, 2015
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (invited course)
Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Automatic Methods”
December 3, 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH North America
Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Automatic Methods”
August 14, 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH North America
Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation
August 12, 2014
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing
libigl: A C++ Library for Geometry Processing without a Mesh Data Structure
July 4, 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH North America
Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbers
July 22, 2013
ACM SIGGRAPH North America
Fast Automatic Skinning Transformations
August 8, 2012
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing
Smooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema
July 16, 2012
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
Stretchable and Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformation
December 14, 2011
ACM SIGGRAPH North America
Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Deformation
August 10, 2011
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing
Mixed Finite Elements for Variational Surface Modeling
July 6, 2010

Invited Talks

ETH Zurich IGL Reunion Workshop Keynote
The First Pancake is Always Burnt
invited by Olga Sorkine-Hornung
July 1, 2023
KAIST Geometric and Visual Computing Workshop
Practical Neural Fields
invited by Minhyuk Sung, Min H. Kim
December 5, 2022
Teaching & Learning Community of Practice
Role-Playing in Paper-Reading Seminars
invited by Jessica Whitehead
March 8, 2022
Huawei Research: Recent Advances in Visual Media Content Generation
Moving Geometry by Looking at It
invited by Richard Zhang, Changqing Zou
May 28, 2021
Adobe Research
Complementary Digital Design
invited by Jovan Popović
February 22, 2021
AIA Symposium On Artificial Intelligence In Architecture, Engineering, And Construction
How do we get to ubiquitous 3D?
invited by Benjamin Dillenburger, Matthias Kohler
October 20, 2020
ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Research Award Talk
Geometry in 2020
invited by John “Spike” Hughes
August 23, 2020
nVidia
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Sanja Fidler, Jun Gao
July 29, 2020
TEDx University of Toronto Keynote
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Tracy Barber, Sumana Dhanani
February 13, 2020
New York University
Cubic Stylization
invited by Daniele Panozzo
January 31, 2020
Dagstuhl Seminar on Interactive Design and Simulation
Spectral Coarsening of Geometric Operators
invited by Jörg Peters, Thomas Grandine, Ulrich Reif, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
December 17, 2019
AI For Engineering Summer School
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Hesam Salehipour, Mike Haley
August 16, 2019
Beijing Film Academy
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Baoquan Chen
July 28, 2019
Symposium on Art and A.I.
Toward Three-Dimensional Cinematography
invited by Pia Kleber, David Rokeby, Tamara Trojanowska
June 25, 2019
Shape Modeling International Keynote
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Giuseppe Patanè, Raphaelle Chaine
June 21, 2019
CVPR Workshop on Deep Generative Models for 3D Understanding
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Xavier Snelgrove
June 17, 2019
Graphics Interface
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Robert J. Teather, Andrea Tagliasacchi
May 30, 2019
Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication II
Solid Geometry Processing on Deconstructed Domains
invited by Daniel Hambleton
May 3, 2019
University of Victoria
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Andrea Tagliasacchi
April 18, 2019
University of British Columbia
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Michiel van de Panne
April 17, 2019
National Research Council Canada, Computer Science Colloquium Series
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Pengcheng Xi
April 16, 2019
Concordia University
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Tiberiu Popa
March 12, 2019
Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation
Moving Geometry by Looking at It
invited by Paul Kry
February 16, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute Seminar
Geometry Processing in the Wild
invited by Keenan Crane
February 8, 2019
CG Connect Toronto
Robust Geometry Processing: the Life Cycle of a Messy Shape
invited by Martin de Lasa, Laurence Cymet, and Nikola Milosevic
November 27, 2018
Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Aspects of Fabrication
Robust Geometry Processing: the Life Cycle of a Messy Shape
invited by Bernd Bickel, Marc Alexa, Kristina Shea, Jessica Hodgins
October 26, 2018
Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication
Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds
invited by Alla Sheffer, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
May 1, 2018
George Mason University
Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds
invited by Yotam Gingold
April 26, 2018
Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation
From Reconfigurables to Matryoshka, Optimizing Shapes and Motions over Space-Time
invited by Paul Kry
February 10, 2018
BIRS Workshop on Geometry & Computation for Interactive Simulation
From Reconfigurables to Matryoshka, Optimizing Shapes and Motions over Space-Time
invited by Jorg Peters, Ulrich Reif, and Dinesh Pai
September 25, 2017
Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Interactivity
Human Math Interaction
invited by Xiaojun Bi, Otmar Hilliges, Takeo Igarashi, and Antti Oulasvirta
June 6, 2017
Graphics Interface
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Elmar Eisemann
May 19, 2017
University of Waterloo
Robust Geometry Processing for Irregularly Bounded Domains
invited by Christopher Batty
April 18, 2017
Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation
Robust Geometry Processing for Irregularly Bounded Domains
invited by Paul Kry
February 4, 2017
Toronto User Experience
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Daniel Wigdor
October 25, 2016
Cornell University
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Steve Marschner
March 22, 2016
Adobe Research
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by David Salesin
March 14, 2016
Purdue University
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Voicu Popescu
March 10, 2016
University of Toronto
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Karan Singh
March 7, 2016
University of Southern California
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Jernej Barbič
February 18, 2016
UC Riverside
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by K. K. Ramakrishnan
February 10, 2016
University of Tokyo
Breaking Barriers between Humans and Geometry
invited by Takeo Igarashi
October 30, 2015
Geometry Workshop in Seggau
Nested Cages
invited by Alexander I. Bobenko, Helmut Pottmann, and Johannes Wallner
July 12, 2015
Oberwolfach Discrete Differential Geometry Workshop
Nested Cages
invited by Alexander I. Bobenko, Richard Kenyon and Peter Schröder
March 5, 2015
City University of Hong Kong
From Model to Motion
invited by Hongbo Fu
December 9, 2014
Visual Effects Society, London
Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation
invited by Ean Carr
September 17, 2014
Double Negative, London
Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation
invited by Ean Carr
September 17, 2014
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation
invited by Andy Nealen
August 1, 2014
George Mason University
Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbers
invited by Yotam Gingold
July 19, 2013
New York University
Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbers
invited by Qingnan Zhou
June 25, 2013
CVGC Seminar Series, Columbia University
Algorithms and Interfaces for Real-Time Deformation of 2D and 3D Shapes
invited by Eitan Grinspun
June 18, 2013
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
Achieving High-quality Shape Deformation in Real Time
invited by Tino Weinkauf
February 26, 2013
Workshop on Computer Graphics and Emerging Technology,
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology

Achieving High-quality Shape Deformation in Real Time
invited by Baoquan Chen
November 26, 2012
New York University
Fast Automatic Skinning Transformations
invited by Denis Zorin
July 31, 2012
NSF Workshop on Barycentric Coordinates
in Geometry Processing and Finite/Boundary Element Methods

High-quality Weight Functions via Constrained Optimization
invited by Kai Hormann
July 25, 2012
Freie Universität
High-quality Weight Functions via Constrained Optimization
invited by Konrad Polthier
June 22, 2012
SIGGRAPH Tokyo (teleconference)
Stretchable, Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformation
invited by Jun Saito
February 24, 2012
LiberoVision, Zurich
Real-time Shape Deformation:
Bounded Biharmonic Weights and Stretchable, Twistable Bones

invited by Remo Ziegler
February 2, 2012
DISI University of Genoa
Real-time Deformation: Bounded Biharmonic Weights and Stretchable, Twistable Bones
invited by Enrico Puppo
June 27, 2011
ETH Zurich-Disney Research Zurich Tech Talk
Mixed Finite Elements for Variational Surface Modeling
invited by Alexander Hornung
October 20, 2010

Panels

Huawei Research: Recent Advances in Visual Media Content Generation
invited by Richard Zhang, Changqing Zou
May 28, 2021
AIA Symposium On Artificial Intelligence In Architecture, Engineering, And Construction
invited by Benjamin Dillenburger, Matthias Kohler
October 20, 2020
Mitacs Panel Discussion Session
invited by Monica Caverson
November 13, 2019
Beijing Film Academy
invited by Baoquan Chen
July 28, 2019
Fields CQAM Launch
invited by Huaxiong Huang
June 28, 2018

Teaching

2022 Seminar in Geometry and Animation
University of Toronto
Instructor
2022 Geometry Processing
University of Toronto
Instructor
2022 Computer Graphics
University of Toronto
Instructor
2020 Geometry Processing
University of Toronto
Instructor
2020 Seminar in Geometry and Animation
University of Toronto
Instructor
2019 Seminar in Geometry and Animation
University of Toronto
Instructor
2016–2019 Computer Graphics
University of Toronto
Designed novel curriculum
Instructor
2017–2018 Geometry Processing
University of Toronto
Designed novel curriculum
Instructor
2015 Seminar in Geometry and Animation
Columbia University
Designed novel curriculum
Co-instructor
2013 Advanced Topics in Visual Computing
ETH Zurich
Co-instructor
2011–2013 Computer Graphics
ETH Zurich
Assistant
2008–2009 America Counts Math Intervention
Clinton Public Middle School for Artists and Writers, New York
Student teacher

Postdoc Advising

Chenxi Liu
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
2023–present
Teemu Tyni
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
2021–present
Nicholas Sharp
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
next stop: NVIDIA
2021–2022
Seungbae Bang
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
next stop: Amazon
2019–2022
Etienne Corman
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
next stop: faculty position, CNRS
2018–2019

PhD Advising

Yun-Chun Chen
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2022–present
Lily Goli
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2022–present
Selena Ling
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2021–present
Aravind Ramakrishnan
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2021–present
Towaki Takikawa
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2020–present
Silvia Sellán
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2019–present
Risa Ulinski
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2019–2020
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2017–present
Sarah Kushner
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2017–present
Changjian Li
visiting PhD candidate, University of Hong Kong
2018–2019
Leonardo Koller Sacht
visiting PhD student from IMPA, ETH Zurich
next stop: adjunct professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2012–2014

Doctoral Committee

Jonas Zehnder
Université de Montréal
Quasi Second-Order Methods for PDE-Constrained Forward and Inverse Problems
2021
Rahul Arora
University of Toronto
Creative Visual Expression in Immersive 3D Environments
July 19, 2021
Baptiste Angles
University of Victoria
Geometric Modeling with Primitives
April 18, 2019
Songrun Liu
George Mason University
Openning Up New Possibilities Of Linear Blend Skinning
April 27, 2018
Akash Garg
Columbia University
Interactive, Computation Assisted Design Tools
February 13, 2017

Masters Advising

Otman Benchekroun
MSc candidate, University of Toronto
2020–present
Josh Holinaty
MSc candidate, University of Toronto
2019–2021
Thomas Davies
MSc candidate, University of Toronto
2019–2021
Risa Ulinski
PhD candidate, University of Toronto
2019–2021
Nicholas Sharp
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
next stop: NVidia
2021–2022
Otman Benchekroun
MSc candidate, University of Toronto
next stop: PhD University of Toronto
2020–2022
Seungbae Bang
Postdoc Fellow, University of Toronto
next stop: Amazon
2019–2022
Junrui Xu
MScAC, University of Toronto
next stop: RockMass
2019
Aditya Sanghi
MScAC, University of Toronto
next stop: Autodesk
2018
Gavin Barill
MSc, University of Toronto
next stop: PhD candidate McGill Unversity, Mathematics
2017–2019
Lawson Fulton
MSc, University of Toronto
next stop: software engineer at MESH Inc.
2017–2019
Timothy Jeruzalski
MSc, University of Toronto
next stop: PhD candidate at University of Toronto
2016–2018
Stefan Messmer
MS, ETH Zurich
next stop: senior software engineer at MP Technology
2013–2014
Christian Schulz
MS, ETH Zurich
next stop: PhD candidate at ETH Zurich
2012
David Meier
MS, ETH Zurich
next stop: software engineer at LiberoVision
2012
Oliver Glauser
MS, ETH Zurich
next stop: PhD candidate at ETH Zurich
2011–2012
Yang Song
MA, New York University
next stop: PhD candidate at University of Utah
2010–2011

Undergraduates and summer students

Eris Zhang
University of Toronto
2019–2021
Seyed Alireza Fatemi Jahromi
Sharif University of Technology
2021–2021
Zoë Marschner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021–2021
Charles Bullingham
University of Toronto
2021–2021
Junda Zhao
University of Toronto
2021–2021
Jennifer Guo
University of Toronto
2021–2021
Jacob Ridgeway
University of Toronto
2021–2021
Aditya Chetan
IIIT Delhi
2021–2021
Andrew Wang
University of Toronto
2020–2021
Xiaochun Tong
University of Toronto
2020–2021
Letícia Matos de Silva
University of California Los Angeles, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2020–2021
Jack Luong
California State University, Fresno visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2020–2021
Yuchuan Yang
University of California Los Angeles, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2020–2021
Aravind Ramakrishnan
University of Maryland, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2020–2021
Cindy Zhu
Unionville High School, visiting
2019–2020
Nanik Adnani
Monarch Park Collegiate Institute visiting
2019
Silvia Sellán
University of Oviedo, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2018
Jacob Kesten
Rice University, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2018
Ang Yan Sheng
National University of Singapore, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2018
Arjun Chhabra
University of Toronto
2018
Lizhe Chen
University of Toronto
2018
Eduard Gonzalvo Gelabert
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, visiting
Centre de Formació Interdisciplinària Superior
2017–2018
Herng Yi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2017
Silvia Sellán
University of Oviedo, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2017
Mitchell Dembowski
Reyerson University, visiting
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2017
Christine Ma
University of Toronto
Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2017
Gavin Barill
University of Toronto
2017
Darren Moore
University of Toronto
2017
Lawson Fulton
University of Toronto
2017
Klint Qinami
Columbia University
2016
Lucas Schuermann
Columbia University
2015
Vaibhav Vavilala
Columbia University
2015
Dingzeyu Li
visiting BA student from HKUST, ETH Zurich
next stop: PhD candidate at Columbia University
2012–2013

Editorial Posts, Workshop Organizing, Program Chairing

Early Career Researcher Award Chair, CHCCS Graphics Interface, 2021–2022
Editor in Chief Search Committee Member, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2021
General Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2021
Associate Editor, ACM TOG, 2020–present
Associate Editor, Computer Graphics Forum, 2021–present
Program Chair, Pacific Graphics, 2020
Program Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2020
Program Chair, Graphics Interface, 2020
Organizer, Fields Institute libigl Hackathon (postponed due to COVID–19 pandemic), 2020
Software & Dataset Awards Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2019–2020
Organizer, Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication, 2019
Graduate School Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2018
Organizer, Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication, 2018
Associate Editor, Computers & Graphics, 2017–2020 Posters Chair, Pacific Graphics, 2017

Conference Program Committees

ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2017, 2018, 2020
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
ACM SIGGRAPH North America Conflict of Interest Coordinator, 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Doctoral Consortium Committee, 2018
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Courses, 2015
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs & Posters, 2016, 2017, 2018
CAD/Graphics, 2015
CVPR Workshop on Learning 3D Generative Models, 2020
Eurographics, 2017, 2018
Eurographics Short Papers, 2012, 2013, 2014
Geometric Modeling and Processing, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Graphics Interface, 2017
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2015, 2016, 2017
Pacific Graphics, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
Shape Modeling International, 2016, 2018, 2019
Shape Modeling International – Fabrication and Sculpting Event (FASE), 2019
Symposium on Computer Animation, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2017
Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Symposium on Geometry Processing Reproducibility Stamp, 2016
Replicability Stamp, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Awards Committees

Pacific Graphics Awards, 2019
Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award, 2017, 2018, 2019
Symposium on Geometry Processing Dataset Award, 2018

Conference Session Chairing

ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2018, 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs, 2017
Eurographics, 2017
Graphics Interface, 2017, 2018, 2019
Pacific Graphics, 2019
Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
TEDxUofTSalon, 2017
Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics, 2015

Funding Referee Service

New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration, Multidisciplinary Review Panel, 2021
Fields Undergraduate Research Summer Program, Committee 2019
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Israeli Science Foundation
Mitacs Accelerate
NSERC Discovery
SNF Early PostDoc.Mobility Fellowship

Referee Service

ACM SIGGRAPH North America
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Courses
ACM SIGCHI
ACM Transactions and Graphics
ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
CAD/Graphics
CVPR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
CVPR Learning 3D Generative Models Workshop
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Computer Graphics Forum
Computers and Graphics
ECCV European Conference on Computer Vision
Engineering with Computers
Eurographics
Eurographics Short Papers
Geometric Modeling and Processing
Graphical Models
Graphics Interface
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters
ICLR
ICML, Expert Reviewer
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)
International Journal of Computer Vision
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
Journal of Graphics Tools
Mathematical Geosciences
NeurIPS
Pacific Graphics
SIAM Journal of Imaging Sciences
SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images
Shape Modeling International
Symposium on Computer Animation
Symposium on Computational Fabrication
Symposium on Geometry Processing
TEI ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions
UIST ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Additional Service

Toronto Geometry Colloquium, Advisor
University of Toronto, Computer Graphics Club, Faculty Coordinator

Visitors I have hosted

James Jacobs
Ziva Dynamics
Physically based Character Simulation and Articulation for Games and Film
February 24, 2020
Herng Yi Cheng
University of Toronto, Mathematics
Tackling electoral manipulation with geometry and graph theory
January 29, 2020
Adrian Butscher
Autodesk Research
Demystifying Topology Optimization
December 12, 2019
Changxi Zheng
Columbia University
Computational Design for Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds
December 3, 2019
Michal Edelstein
Technion
Automatic Non-Isometric Shape Correspondence using a Genetic Algorithm
November 6, 2019
Seungbae Bang
KAIST
Breathing life into digital characters
October 9, 2019
Mirela Ben Chen
Technion
Chebyshev Nets from Commuting PolyVector Fields
September 18, 2019
Francis Williams
New York University
Geometric Priors of Feedfoward ReLU Networks
August 12, 2019
Thomas Lumpe
ETH Zurich
4D Printing in Engineering Design Research: Materials, Methods, and Applications
August 7, 2019
Dale Hayward
See Creatures Films
Bone Mother: The Challenges of Making an Indie 3D-Printed Film
July 22, 2019
Brady Peters
University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture
Computer-generated Architecture: The Smithsonian Courtyard
May 16, 2019
Eitan Grinspun
Columbia University
A Geometric Perspective on Computing Motion
May 14, 2019
Yotam Gingold
George Mason University
Color, Geometry, and Time-Lapse Painting
May 6, 2019
Yu Zou
University of Toronto, Materials Science and Engineering
Additive manufacturing and mechanical properties of metallic materials across length scales
April 4, 2019
Maria Yablonina
University of Stuttgart
Task-Specific Architecture Machines
April 1, 2019
Marc Alexa
TU Berlin
Conforming Regular Triangulations
February 28, 2019
Andrea Tagliasacchi
Google
Capture, Tracking, and Compression of 4D Geometry
January 31, 2019
Changjian Li
The University of Hong Kong
BendSketch: Modeling Freeform Surfaces Through 2D Sketching
September 13, 2018
Yixin Hu
New York University
Tetrahedral Meshing in the Wild
August, 9, 2018
Oded Stein
Columbia University
Natural Boundary Conditions for Smoothing in Geometry Processing
April 6, 2018
Morgan McGuire
nVidia Research, University of Waterloo, Williams College
Realistic 3D Graphics in Real Time
December 14, 2017
Hanno Rein
University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences
The Numerical Challenges of Simulating Planetary Systems
December 7, 2017
Nobuyuki Umetani
Autodesk Research
Exploring Generative 3D Shapes Using Autoencoder Networks
November 16, 2017
Etienne Corman
Carnegie Mellon University
Functional Characterization of Deformation Fields
September 22, 2017
Dominik Michels
KAUST
On the Integration of Stiff Nonlinear Problems
September 13, 2017
Oliver Weeger
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Isogeometric collocation methods for nonlinear 3D rods
August 18, 2017
Marc Alexa
TU Berlin
Eye Tracking in 3D
July 27, 2017
Erik Postma
Maplesoft Research & Development
Examples of Computer Algebra with Maple
July 13, 2017
Nobuyuki Umetani
Autodesk Research
NeuralCFD: Learning Three-dimensional Flow for Interactive Aerodynamic Design
June 15, 2017
David Hahn
IST Austria
Simulating with surfaces: Boundary elements for liquids and fractures
May 11, 2017
Derek Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
A Spectrum of Spectra: From Instrinsic to Extrinsic Shape Analysis
April 28, 2017
Cory Mogk
Autodesk Research
More than AutoCAD and Maya: The Hidden Secrets of Autodesk
April 13, 2017
Liane Makatura
Dartmouth University
Environment-Scale Fabrication: Replicating Outdoor Climbing Experiences
March 30, 2017
Emilio Vital Brazil
IBM Research
Facing the high-dimensions: Inverse projection with radial basis functions
March 9, 2017
Eftychios Sifakis
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Digital humans, virtual surgery and fast fluids:
Do they have more in common than their hunger for performance?
February 23, 2017
Daniel Hambleton
MESH Inc.
IOGRAM: A New Development Platform for 3D Software
February 16, 2017
Joaquim Jorge
Instituto Superior Técnico
Multimodal interfaces for Shape Exploration: Beyond 2D Sketching
January 26, 2017
Marius Kintel
Shapefactory
OpenSCAD: A different approach to 3D Modeling
December 1, 2016
Ali Mazalek
Ryerson University
Movement, Material, Mind: Tangible and Embodied Interactions for Discovery and Learning
November 24, 2016
Noah Lockwood
Industrial Light and Magic
VFX and Computer Science: Raptors, Rathtars, and Augmented Reality
November 7, 2016
Nobuyuki Umetani
Autodesk Research
Printone: Interactive Resonance Simulation for Free-form Print-wind Instrument Design
November 3, 2016
Jovan Popović
Adobe Research
Character Animator
October 26, 2016
David Steinman
University of Toronto, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Towards illustration-inspired visualization of cerebral aneurysm blood flow dynamics
October 6, 2016
David Duvenaud
University of Toronto, Machine Learning
Differentiating through physical simulations to optimize initial conditions
September 22, 2016
Christopher Batty
University of Waterloo
Surface-Only Animation of Gases and Liquids
September 15, 2016
David Palmer
Pixar Research
Discrete measured foliations and applications
September 8, 2016
Oded Stein
Columbia University
The finite element method for higher-order PDEs on subdivision surfaces
September 1, 2016
Oliver Glauser
ETH Zurich
Rig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device
April 21, 2016
Roi Poranne
ETH Zurich
Scalable Locally Injective Mappings
April 21, 2016
Qingnan Zhou
New York University
Pushing the Limits of 3D Printing Technologies
March 24, 2016
Ken Perlin
New York University
Chalktalk
June 18, 2015
Andy Nealen
NYU Poly
Exploring Game Space
May 5, 2015
Noam Aigerman
Weizmann Institute
Representation of bijections between surface meshes using non-injective mappings to the plane
August 18, 2014
Maks Ovsjanikov
École Polytechnique
Geometry Processing via Linear Operators
May 20, 2014

  1. Nicholas Sharp, Cristian Romero Garcia, David Levin, Alec Jacobson, Etienne Vouga, Paul Kry, Justin Solomon. “Data-Free Learning of Reduced-Order Kinematics,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.

  2. Xiaochun Tong, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Yotam Gingold, Alec Jacobson. “Differentiable Heightfield Path Tracing with Accelerated Discontinuities,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.

  3. Otman Benchekroun, Jiayi Eris Zhang, Siddartha Chaudhuri, Eitan Grinspun, Yi Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Complementary Dynamics via Skinning Eigenmodes,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.

  4. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Benjamin Chislett, Mark Gillespie, Nick Sharp, Alec Jacobson, Keenan Crane. “Surface Simplification using Intrinsic Error Metrics,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.

  5. Yun-Chun Chen, Vladimir G. Kim, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Neural Progressive Meshes,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.

  6. Marzia Riso, Giacomo Nazzaro, Enrico Puppo, Alec Jacobson, Qingnan Zhou, Fabio Pellacini. “BoolSurf : Boolean Operations on Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2022.

  7. Jiayi Eris Zhang, Jérémie Dumas, Yun (Raymond) Fei, Alec Jacobson, Doug L. James, Danny M. Kaufman. “Progressive Simulation for Cloth Quasistatics,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2022.

  8. Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “HrtDown: Document Processor for Executable Linear Algebra Papers,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2022.

  9. Silvia Sellán, Alec Jacobson. “Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2022.

  10. Silvia Sellán, Jack Luong, Leticia Mattos Da Silva, Aravind Ramakrishnan, Yuchuan Yang, Alec Jacobson. “Breaking Good: Fracture Modes for Realtime Destruction,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2022.

  11. Towaki Takikawa, Alex Evans, Jonathan Tremblay, Thomas Müller, Morgan McGuire, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler. “Variable Bitrate Neural Fields,” ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2022.

  12. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Francis Williams, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler, Or Litany. “Learning Smooth Neural Functions via Lipschitz Regularization,” ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2022.

  13. Nicholas Sharp, Alec Jacobson. “Spelunking the Deep: Guaranteed Queries for General Neural Implicit Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Prof. SIGGRAPH North America), 2022.

  14. Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “ILA: Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021.

  15. Baptiste Nicolet, Alec Jacobson, Wenzel Jakob. “Large Steps in Inverse Rendering of Geometry,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021.

  16. Silvia Sellán, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Swept Volumes via Spacetime Numerical Continuation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2021.
    Patent Filed.

  17. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Jiayi Eris Zhang, Mirela Ben Chen, Alec Jacobson. “Surface Multigrid via Intrinsic Prolongation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2021.

  18. Rinat Abdrashitov, Seungbae Bang, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Interactive Modelling of Volumetric Musculoskeletal Anatomy,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2021.

  19. Jiayi Eris Zhang, Seungbae Bang, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Complementary Dynamics,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.

  20. Silvia Sellán, Jacob Kesten, Ang Yan Sheng, Alec Jacobson. “Opening and Closing Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.

  21. Honglin Chen, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Chordal Decomposition for Spectral Coarsening,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.

  22. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Neural Subdivision,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2020.
    Patent: US11257290.

  23. Silvia Sellán, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Developability of Heightfields via Rank Minimization,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2020.
    Patent: US11080819.

  24. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without Boundary Distortion for Curved Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2020.

  25. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson. “Cubic Stylization,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019.

  26. Dario Seyb, Alec Jacobson, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Wojciech Jarosz. “Non-linear sphere tracing for rendering deformed signed distance fields,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019.

  27. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, Maks Ovsjanikov. “Spectral Coarsening for Geometric Operators,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2019.

  28. Yixin Hu, Teseo Schneider, Xifeng Gao, Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo. “TriWild: Robust Triangulation with Curve Constraints.” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2019.

  29. Rinat Abdrashitov, Alec Jacobson, Karan Singh. “A System for Efficient 3D Printed Stop-Motion Face Animation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2019.

  30. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Alec Jacobson. “Paparazzi: Surface Editing by way of Multi-View Image Processing,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2018.

  31. Gavin Barill, Nia G. Dickson, Ryan Schmidt, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2018.

  32. Yixin Hu, Qingnan Zhou, Xifeng Gao, Alec Jacobson, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo. “Tetrahedral Meshing in the Wild,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2018.

  33. Oded Stein, Eitan Grinspun, Max Wardetzky, Alec Jacobson. “Natural Boundary Conditions for Smoothing in Geometry Processing,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2018.

  34. Songrun Liu, Zachary Ferguson, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Seamless: Seam erasure and seam-aware decoupling of shape from mesh resolution,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017.

  35. Qingnan Zhou, Eitan Grinspun, Denis Zorin, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2016.

  36. Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2016.

  37. Oliver Glauser, Wan-Chun Ma, Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Rig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2016.

  38. Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga, Alec Jacobson. “Nested Cages,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2015.

  39. Yu Wang, Alec Jacobson, Jernej Barbič, Ladislav Kavan. “Linear Subspace Design for Real-Time Shape Deformation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2015.

  40. Songrun Liu, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Skinning Cubic Bézier Splines and Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2014.

  41. Daniel Sýkora, Ladislav Kavan, Martin Čadík, Ondřej Jamriška, Alec Jacobson, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Ink-and-Ray: Bas-Relief Meshes for Adding Global Illumination Effects to Hand-Drawn Characters,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2014.

  42. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2014.

  43. Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbers,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2013.

  44. Kaan Yücer, Alec Jacobson, Alexander Hornung, Olga Sorkine. “Transfusive Image Manipulation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2012.
    Patent: US9202431

  45. Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Ladislav Kavan, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Fast Automatic Skinning Transformations,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2012.

  46. Alec Jacobson, Olga Sorkine. “Stretchable and Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2011.

  47. Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Shape Deformation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2011.

  48. Selena Ling, Nicholas Sharp, Alec Jacobson. “VectorAdam for Rotation Equivariant Geometry Optimization,” Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.

  49. Silvia Sellán, Yun-Chun Chen, Ziyi Wu, Animesh Garg, Alec Jacobson. “Breaking Bad: A Dataset for Geometric Fracture and Reassembly,” Neural Information Processing Systems (Datasets & Benchmarks Track), 2022.

  50. Yun-Chun Chen, Haoda Li, Dylan Turpin, Alec Jacobson, Animesh Garg. “Neural Shape Mating: Self-Supervised Object Assembly with Adversarial Shape Priors,” CVPR, 2022.

  51. Xinhao Cai, Eulalie Coevoet, Alec Jacobson, Paul Kry. “Active Learning Neural C-space Signed Distance Fields for Reduced Deformable Self-Collision,” Graphics Interface, 2022.

  52. Josh Holinaty, Alec Jacobson, Fanny Chevalier. “Supporting Reference Imagery for Digital Drawing”, ICCV Workshop on Sketching for Human Expressivity, 2021.

  53. Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “ILA: Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra,” ICLR Workshop on Rethinking ML Papers, 2021.

  54. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson. “Normal-Driven Spherical Shape Analogies,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2021.

  55. Towaki Takikawa, Joey Litalien, Kangxue Yin, Karsten Kreis, Charles Loop, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson, Morgan McGuire, Sanja Fidler. “Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapes,” CVPR , 2021.
    Oral

  56. Sarah Kushner, Risa Ulinski, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Levitating Rigid Objects with Hidden Rods and Wires”, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2021.

  57. Jiayi Eris Zhang, Alec Jacobson, Marc Alexa. “Fast Updates for Least-Squares Rotational Alignment,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2021.

  58. Ludwig Wilhelm Wall, Alec Jacobson, Daniel Vogel, Oliver Schneider. “Scrappy: Using Scrap Material as Infill to Make Fabrication More Sustainable”, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.

  59. Vismay Modi, Lawson Fulton, Shinjiro Sueda, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “EMU: Efficient Muscle Simulation in Deformation Space,” Computer Graphics Forum, 2020.

  60. Jun Gao, Wenzheng Chen, Tommy Xiang, Morgan McGuire, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler. “Learning Deformable Tetrahedral Meshes for 3D Reconstruction,” Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020.

  61. Josef Graus, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Interacting with Self-Similarity,” Computer-Aided Design, 2020.

  62. Oded Stein, Max Wardetzky, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “A Simple Discretization of the Vector Dirichlet Energy,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2020.

  63. Thibault Lescoat, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Jean-Marc Thiery, Alec Jacobson, Tamy Boubekeur, Maks Ovsjanikov. “Spectral Mesh Simplification,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2020.

  64. Wenzheng Chen, Jun Gao, Huan Ling, Edward J. Smith, Jaakko Lehtinen, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler. “Learning to Predict 3D Objects with an Interpolation-based Differentiable Renderer,” Neural Information Processing Systems, 2019.

  65. Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2019.

  66. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Chun-Liang Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “Beyond Pixel Norm-Balls: Parametric Adversaries using an Analytically Differentiable Renderer”, International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019.

  67. Lawson Fulton, Vismay Modi, David Duvenaud, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Latent-space Dynamics for Reduced Deformable Simulation”, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2019.

  68. Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solid Geometry Processing on Deconstructed Domains,” Computer Graphics Forum, 2019.
    (presented at SGP 2019)

  69. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Interactive Design of Castable Shapes using Two-Piece Rigid Molds,” Computers & Graphics, 2019.

  70. Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy Richard Langlois, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Volumetric Michell Trusses for Parametric Design & Fabrication,” Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2019.

  71. Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Error Bounded Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SCA), 2018.

  72. Marek Dvorožňák, Saman Sepehri Nejad, Alec Jacobson, Ondřej Jamriška, Ladislav Kavan, Daniel Sýkora. “Seamless Reconstruction of Part-Based High-Relief Models from Hand-Drawn Images,” Expressive, 2018.

  73. Alec Jacobson. “Generalized Matryoshka: Computational Design of Nesting Objects,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2017.

  74. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, Keenan Crane. “A Dirac Operator for Extrinsic Shape Analysis,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2017.

  75. Jean-Charles Bazin, Claudia Plüss, Guo Yu, Tobias Martin, Alec Jacobson, Markus Gross. “Physically Based Video Editing,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2016.

  76. Alec Jacobson. “Breathing Life into Shapes,” Computer Graphics & Applications: Dissertation Impact, 2015.
    Invited by James D. Foley

  77. Romain Prévost, Alec Jacobson, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Large-Scale Spray Painting of Photographs by Interactive Optimization,” Computers & Graphics, 2015

  78. Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Shape Deformation,” Communications of the ACM: Research Highlights, 2014.
    Preface by Joe Waren, 中国版 translated by Kun Zhou

  79. David Günther, Alec Jacobson, Jan Reininghaus, Hans-Peter Seidel, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Tino Weinkauf. “Fast and Memory-Efficient Topological Denoising of 2D and 3D Scalar Fields,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. SciVis), 2014.

  80. Kenshi Takayama, Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “A Simple Method for Correcting Facet Orientations in Polygon Meshes Based on Ray Casting,” Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 2014.

  81. Alec Jacobson. “Bijective Mappings with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates: a Counterexample,” Journal of Graphics Tools, 2013.

  82. Leonardo Sacht, Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Christian Schüller, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Consistent Volumetric Discretizations Inside Self-Intersecting Surfaces,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2013.

  83. Alec Jacobson, Tino Weinkauf, Olga Sorkine. “Smooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2012.

  84. Alec Jacobson, Elif Tosun, Olga Sorkine, Denis Zorin. “Mixed Finite Elements for Variational Surface Modeling,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2010.

  85. Sarah Kushner, Paul H. Dietz, Alec Jacobson. “Interactive 3D Zoetrope with a Strobing Flashlight,” ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium Demos, 2022.

  86. Towaki Takikawa, Joey Litalien, Kangxue Yin, Karsten Kreis, Charles Loop, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson, Morgan McGuire, Sanja Fidler. “Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapes,” Technical Report, 2021.

  87. Thomas Davies, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “On the Effectiveness of Weight-Encoded Neural Implicit 3D Shapes,” Technical Report, 2020.

  88. Wenzheng Chen, Jun Gao, Huan Ling, Edward J. Smith, Jaakko Lehtinen, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler. “Learning to Predict 3D Objects with an Interpolation-based Differentiable Renderer,” arXiv, 2019.

  89. Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods,” ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication Posters & Short Talks, 2019.

  90. Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods,” arXiv, 2019.

  91. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A mixed finite element method with piecewise linear elements for the biharmonic equation on surfaces,” arXiv, 2019.

  92. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without Boundary Distortion for Curved Surfaces,” arXiv, 2019.

  93. Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy R. Langlois, Yijiang Huang, Caitlin Mueller, Wojciech Matusik, Ariel Shamir, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Designing Volumetric Truss Structures for Computational Fabrication,” arXiv, 2018.

  94. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Chun-Liang Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “Adversarial Geometry and Lighting using a Differentiable Renderer,” Technical Report, 2018.

  95. Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Deconstructed Domains,” Technical Report, 2018.

  96. Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Deconstructed Domains,” Symposium on Geometry Processing Posters, 2018.

  97. Alec Jacobson. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” Graphics Interface Courses, 2018.

  98. Lawson Fulton, Vismay Modi, David Duvenaud, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Autodef: Non-linear Subspace Simulation for Large Deformation Elastodynamics,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
    Best Poster Award.

  99. Michelle Arkhangorodsky, Yanjun Jiang, Alec Jacobson. “Simplification for Large-Scale Fabrication,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  100. Andrew Nelles, Alec Jacobson. “Best-Fit Affine Progressive Meshes,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  101. Sarah Kushner, Alec Jacobson. “Example-Based Print Preview for Laser Cutting,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  102. Silvia Sellán, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Overlapping Domains,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  103. Gavin Barill, Nia G. Dickson, Ryan Schmidt, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  104. Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy Richard Langlois, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Designing Volumetric Truss Structures for Computational Fabrication,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  105. Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Error Bounded Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  106. Rinat Abdrashitov, Alec Jacobson, Karan Singh. “f-Stop: A System for 3D Printed Stop-Motion Facial Animation,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  107. Darren Moore, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Rigless Skinning for Interactive Vector Animation,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

  108. Alec Jacobson. “Human-Math Interaction,” Computational Interactivity, Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 17232, 2017.

  109. Timothy Jeruzalski, Eugene Fiume, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations using Physics-Inspired Interpolation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation Posters, 2017.
    Best Poster Award.

  110. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Courses, 2017.

  111. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Courses, 2017.

  112. Oliver Glauser, Benedek Vartok, Wan-Chun Ma, Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Rig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device,” ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium Demos, 2016.

  113. Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Thingi10K: A Dataset of 10000 3D-Printing Models”, arXiv:1605.04797, 2016
    SGP 2017 Dataset Award

  114. Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2016.

  115. Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2016.

  116. Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” Symposium on Computational Fabrication Posters, 2016.

  117. Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” Symposium on Computational Fabrication Posters, 2016.

  118. Alec Jacobson. “Boolean Operations using Generalized Winding Numbers,” Columbia University, 2016.

  119. Alec Jacobson, Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga. “Nested Cages,” Oberwolfach Report: Discrete Differential Geometry, 2015.

  120. Alec Jacobson. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Invited Courses, 2015.

  121. Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga, Alec Jacobson. “Nested Cages,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2015.

  122. Yu Wang, Alec Jacobson, Jernej Barbič, Ladislav Kavan. “Linear Subspace Design for Real-Time Shape Deformation,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2015.

  123. Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Invited Courses, 2014.

  124. Alec Jacobson, Zhigang Deng, Ladislav Kavan, J.P. Lewis. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Courses, 2014.

  125. Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson. “libigl: A C++ Library for Geometry Processing without a Mesh Data Structure,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Courses, 2014.

  126. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation,” ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium Demos, 2014.

  127. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, 2014.

  128. Kenshi Takayama, Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Consistently Orienting Facets in Polygon Meshes by Minimizing the Dirichlet Energy of Generalized Winding Numbers,” ETH Zurich, 2014.

  129. Alec Jacobson. “Schur Complement Trick for Positive Semi-definite Energies,” Columbia University, 2014.

  130. Alec Jacobson. “Bijective Mappings with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates: A Counterexample,” ETH Zurich, 2012.

  131. Alec Jacobson, Olga Sorkine. “A Cotangent Laplacian for Images as Surfaces,” ETH Zurich, 2012.

  132. Murphy Stein, Alec Jacobson, Yongming Hong. “Games for Learning Institute at NYU: Super Transformation,” Games for Change Festival Demos, 2010.