CV
I am a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Minchen Li.
Research Focus
GPU physics simulation, contact and friction, deformable materials, numerical optimization, and simulation for robotic manipulation and interactive modeling.
Selected Work
- TapeSim — sole first author; adhesive tape dispensing, contact, and deformable manipulation. Preprint. Paper
- Overlapping Schwarz Space-Time Refinement for MPM — local space-time refinement for material point simulation. Preprint, 2026. Paper
- AGIPC — adaptive in-solve algebraic coarsening for GPU IPC. SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference Papers. Paper
- Penetration-Free Elastodynamics without Barriers — augmented Lagrangian contact simulation. ACM TOG / SIGGRAPH 2026. Project
- VR-Doh — co-first author; I designed, implemented, and tested the entire system for hands-on 3D modeling in VR. ACM TOG / SIGGRAPH 2025. Project
See the full publication list and project portfolio for collaborators, technical details, and resources.
Teaching
Teaching assistant, 15-369/769: Numerical Methods: Foundations, ML, and Visual Computing, Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2026. Course website
Contact: zhaofen2@andrew.cmu.edu