Won the 2025 SIAM Geometric Design Early Career Prize; his geometry processing library Gpytoolbox won the 2025 SGP software award.
Research Experience
Was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab from 2020 to 2022; since 2023, he has been an Assistant Professor at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering.
Education
Received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2020 from Columbia University, under the supervision of Eitan Grinspun.
Background
Interests include geometry processing, numerical mathematics and optimization, simulation, differential geometry, and algebraic topology. Leads the Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG) at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering.
Miscellany
His GitHub profile provides useful links such as a simple Python geometry processing library and a guide on how to write your first ACM SIGGRAPH / TOG paper.