www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson
40 St George Street, Room 5266
Toronto, ON, M5S 2E4 Canada
jacobson@cs.toronto.edu
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)
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
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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
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
Pacific Graphics Awards, 2019
Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award, 2017, 2018, 2019
Symposium on Geometry Processing Dataset Award, 2018
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
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
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
Toronto Geometry Colloquium, Advisor
University of Toronto, Computer Graphics Club, Faculty Coordinator
| 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 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 |
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.
Xiaochun Tong, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Yotam Gingold, Alec Jacobson. “Differentiable Heightfield Path Tracing with Accelerated Discontinuities,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.
Otman Benchekroun, Jiayi Eris Zhang, Siddartha Chaudhuri, Eitan Grinspun, Yi Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Complementary Dynamics via Skinning Eigenmodes,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.
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.
Yun-Chun Chen, Vladimir G. Kim, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Neural Progressive Meshes,” ACM SIGGRAPH (North America), 2023.
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.
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.
Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “H❤rtDown: Document Processor for Executable Linear Algebra Papers,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2022.
Silvia Sellán, Alec Jacobson. “Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2022.
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.
Towaki Takikawa, Alex Evans, Jonathan Tremblay, Thomas Müller, Morgan McGuire, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler. “Variable Bitrate Neural Fields,” ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2022.
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Francis Williams, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler, Or Litany. “Learning Smooth Neural Functions via Lipschitz Regularization,” ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2022.
Nicholas Sharp, Alec Jacobson. “Spelunking the Deep: Guaranteed Queries for General Neural Implicit Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Prof. SIGGRAPH North America), 2022.
Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “I❤LA: Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021.
Baptiste Nicolet, Alec Jacobson, Wenzel Jakob. “Large Steps in Inverse Rendering of Geometry,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021.
Silvia Sellán, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Swept Volumes via Spacetime Numerical Continuation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2021.
Patent Filed.
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.
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.
Jiayi Eris Zhang, Seungbae Bang, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Complementary Dynamics,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.
Silvia Sellán, Jacob Kesten, Ang Yan Sheng, Alec Jacobson. “Opening and Closing Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.
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.
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.
Silvia Sellán, Noam Aigerman, Alec Jacobson. “Developability of Heightfields via Rank Minimization,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2020.
Patent: US11080819.
Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without Boundary Distortion for Curved Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2020.
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson. “Cubic Stylization,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019.
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.
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, Maks Ovsjanikov. “Spectral Coarsening for Geometric Operators,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2019.
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.
Rinat Abdrashitov, Alec Jacobson, Karan Singh. “A System for Efficient 3D Printed Stop-Motion Face Animation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2019.
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.
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.
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.
Oded Stein, Eitan Grinspun, Max Wardetzky, Alec Jacobson. “Natural Boundary Conditions for Smoothing in Geometry Processing,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2018.
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.
Qingnan Zhou, Eitan Grinspun, Denis Zorin, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2016.
Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2016.
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.
Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga, Alec Jacobson. “Nested Cages,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2015.
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.
Songrun Liu, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Skinning Cubic Bézier Splines and Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2014.
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.
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.
Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbers,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2013.
Kaan Yücer, Alec Jacobson, Alexander Hornung, Olga Sorkine. “Transfusive Image Manipulation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2012.
Patent: US9202431
Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Ladislav Kavan, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Fast Automatic Skinning Transformations,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2012.
Alec Jacobson, Olga Sorkine. “Stretchable and Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2011.
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.
Selena Ling, Nicholas Sharp, Alec Jacobson. “VectorAdam for Rotation Equivariant Geometry Optimization,” Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.
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.
Yun-Chun Chen, Haoda Li, Dylan Turpin, Alec Jacobson, Animesh Garg. “Neural Shape Mating: Self-Supervised Object Assembly with Adversarial Shape Priors,” CVPR, 2022.
Xinhao Cai, Eulalie Coevoet, Alec Jacobson, Paul Kry. “Active Learning Neural C-space Signed Distance Fields for Reduced Deformable Self-Collision,” Graphics Interface, 2022.
Josh Holinaty, Alec Jacobson, Fanny Chevalier. “Supporting Reference Imagery for Digital Drawing”, ICCV Workshop on Sketching for Human Expressivity, 2021.
Yong Li, Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “I❤LA: Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra,” ICLR Workshop on Rethinking ML Papers, 2021.
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson. “Normal-Driven Spherical Shape Analogies,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2021.
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
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.
Jiayi Eris Zhang, Alec Jacobson, Marc Alexa. “Fast Updates for Least-Squares Rotational Alignment,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2021.
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.
Vismay Modi, Lawson Fulton, Shinjiro Sueda, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “EMU: Efficient Muscle Simulation in Deformation Space,” Computer Graphics Forum, 2020.
Jun Gao, Wenzheng Chen, Tommy Xiang, Morgan McGuire, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler. “Learning Deformable Tetrahedral Meshes for 3D Reconstruction,” Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020.
Josef Graus, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Interacting with Self-Similarity,” Computer-Aided Design, 2020.
Oded Stein, Max Wardetzky, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “A Simple Discretization of the Vector Dirichlet Energy,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2020.
Thibault Lescoat, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Jean-Marc Thiery, Alec Jacobson, Tamy Boubekeur, Maks Ovsjanikov. “Spectral Mesh Simplification,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2020.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Interactive Design of Castable Shapes using Two-Piece Rigid Molds,” Computers & Graphics, 2019.
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.
Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Error Bounded Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SCA), 2018.
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.
Alec Jacobson. “Generalized Matryoshka: Computational Design of Nesting Objects,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2017.
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, Keenan Crane. “A Dirac Operator for Extrinsic Shape Analysis,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2017.
Jean-Charles Bazin, Claudia Plüss, Guo Yu, Tobias Martin, Alec Jacobson, Markus Gross. “Physically Based Video Editing,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2016.
Alec Jacobson. “Breathing Life into Shapes,” Computer Graphics & Applications: Dissertation Impact, 2015.
Invited by James D. Foley
Romain Prévost, Alec Jacobson, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Large-Scale Spray Painting of Photographs by Interactive Optimization,” Computers & Graphics, 2015
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
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.
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.
Alec Jacobson. “Bijective Mappings with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates: a Counterexample,” Journal of Graphics Tools, 2013.
Leonardo Sacht, Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Christian Schüller, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Consistent Volumetric Discretizations Inside Self-Intersecting Surfaces,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2013.
Alec Jacobson, Tino Weinkauf, Olga Sorkine. “Smooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2012.
Alec Jacobson, Elif Tosun, Olga Sorkine, Denis Zorin. “Mixed Finite Elements for Variational Surface Modeling,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2010.
Sarah Kushner, Paul H. Dietz, Alec Jacobson. “Interactive 3D Zoetrope with a Strobing Flashlight,” ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium Demos, 2022.
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.
Thomas Davies, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “On the Effectiveness of Weight-Encoded Neural Implicit 3D Shapes,” Technical Report, 2020.
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.
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.
Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods,” arXiv, 2019.
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.
Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without Boundary Distortion for Curved Surfaces,” arXiv, 2019.
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.
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Chun-Liang Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “Adversarial Geometry and Lighting using a Differentiable Renderer,” Technical Report, 2018.
Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Deconstructed Domains,” Technical Report, 2018.
Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Deconstructed Domains,” Symposium on Geometry Processing Posters, 2018.
Alec Jacobson. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” Graphics Interface Courses, 2018.
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.
Michelle Arkhangorodsky, Yanjun Jiang, Alec Jacobson. “Simplification for Large-Scale Fabrication,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Andrew Nelles, Alec Jacobson. “Best-Fit Affine Progressive Meshes,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Sarah Kushner, Alec Jacobson. “Example-Based Print Preview for Laser Cutting,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Silvia Sellán, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Overlapping Domains,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Gavin Barill, Nia G. Dickson, Ryan Schmidt, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy Richard Langlois, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Designing Volumetric Truss Structures for Computational Fabrication,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Error Bounded Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Rinat Abdrashitov, Alec Jacobson, Karan Singh. “f-Stop: A System for 3D Printed Stop-Motion Facial Animation,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Darren Moore, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Rigless Skinning for Interactive Vector Animation,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.
Alec Jacobson. “Human-Math Interaction,” Computational Interactivity, Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 17232, 2017.
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.
Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Courses, 2017.
Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Courses, 2017.
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.
Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Thingi10K: A Dataset of 10000 3D-Printing Models”, arXiv:1605.04797, 2016
SGP 2017 Dataset Award
Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2016.
Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2016.
Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” Symposium on Computational Fabrication Posters, 2016.
Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” Symposium on Computational Fabrication Posters, 2016.
Alec Jacobson. “Boolean Operations using Generalized Winding Numbers,” Columbia University, 2016.
Alec Jacobson, Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga. “Nested Cages,” Oberwolfach Report: Discrete Differential Geometry, 2015.
Alec Jacobson. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Invited Courses, 2015.
Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga, Alec Jacobson. “Nested Cages,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2015.
Yu Wang, Alec Jacobson, Jernej Barbič, Ladislav Kavan. “Linear Subspace Design for Real-Time Shape Deformation,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2015.
Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Invited Courses, 2014.
Alec Jacobson, Zhigang Deng, Ladislav Kavan, J.P. Lewis. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Courses, 2014.
Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson. “libigl: A C++ Library for Geometry Processing without a Mesh Data Structure,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Courses, 2014.
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.
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.
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.
Alec Jacobson. “Schur Complement Trick for Positive Semi-definite Energies,” Columbia University, 2014.
Alec Jacobson. “Bijective Mappings with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates: A Counterexample,” ETH Zurich, 2012.
Alec Jacobson, Olga Sorkine. “A Cotangent Laplacian for Images as Surfaces,” ETH Zurich, 2012.
Murphy Stein, Alec Jacobson, Yongming Hong. “Games for Learning Institute at NYU: Super Transformation,” Games for Change Festival Demos, 2010.