News
2026
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2026-08-10
With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
"GeoPT" helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.
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2026-07-17
NeuralActuator receives the Outstanding Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller
NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception received the Outstanding Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller at Robotics: Science and Systems, Sydney, 13 to 17 July 2026.
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2026-05-01
Congratulations to Dr. Yifei Li
Yifei Li's doctoral degree was conferred in May 2026, for the thesis From Visual Computing to Physical AI: Simulation, Optimization, and Learning for Physical World.
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2026-05-01
Congratulations to Dr. Liane Makatura
Liane Makatura's doctoral degree was conferred in May 2026, for the thesis Unified Representation, Design, and Exploration of High-Performance Metamaterials.
2025
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2025-09-30
Fabrica receives the Best Paper Award
Fabrica: Dual-Arm Assembly of General Multi-Part Objects via Integrated Planning and Learning received the Best Paper Award at the Conference on Robot Learning, COEX Seoul, 27 to 30 September 2025.
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2025-09-01
Congratulations to Dr. Yunsheng Tian
Yunsheng Tian's doctoral degree was conferred in September 2025, for the thesis Scalable Assembly of General Objects.
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2025-07-09
AI shapes autonomous underwater 'gliders'
An AI pipeline developed by CSAIL researchers enables unique hydrodynamic designs for bodyboard-sized vehicles that glide underwater and could help scientists gather marine data.
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2025-06-01
Wojciech Matusik named Cadence Design Systems Professor
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing named Wojciech Matusik the Cadence Design Systems Professor, recognizing his work in machine learning and computational design. The chair began on 1 June 2025 for a five-year renewable term.
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2025-05-08
System lets robots identify an object's properties through handling
With a novel simulation method, robots can guess the weight, softness, and other physical properties of an object just by picking it up.
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2025-05-01
TelePulse receives the Best Paper Award
TelePulse: Enhancing the Teleoperation Experience through Biomechanical Simulation-Based Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Virtual Reality received the Best Paper Award at ACM CHI, Yokohama, 26 April to 1 May 2025.
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2025-04-09
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.
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2025-02-01
Congratulations to Dr. Pingchuan Ma
Pingchuan Ma's doctoral degree was conferred in February 2025, for the thesis Building World Models with Neural Physics.
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2025-02-01
Congratulations to Dr. Beichen Li
Beichen Li's doctoral degree was conferred in February 2025, for the thesis Quality-Centric Single-Image Procedural Material Generation.
2024
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2024-09-01
Congratulations to Dr. Yiyue Luo
Yiyue Luo's doctoral degree was conferred in September 2024, for the thesis Intelligent Textiles for Physical Interactions.
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2024-06-03
MIT CSAIL and GIST researchers develop a biomechanical dataset for badminton performance analysis
CSAIL News story on the paper "MultiSenseBadminton: Wearable Sensor-Based Biomechanical Dataset for Evaluation of Badminton Performance" (Scientific Data, 2024).
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2024-05-01
Congratulations to Dr. Liang Shi
Liang Shi's doctoral degree was conferred in May 2024, for the thesis Towards Passing Visual Turing Test with Computational 3D Displays and Appearance Modeling.
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2024-02-20
Smart glove teaches new physical skills
Adaptive smart glove from MIT CSAIL researchers can send tactile feedback to teach users new skills, guide robots with more precise manipulation, and help train surgeons and pilots.
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2024-02-14
Using AI to discover stiff and tough microstructures
Innovative AI system from MIT CSAIL melds simulations and physical testing to forge materials with newfound durability and flexibility for diverse engineering uses.
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2024-02-02
Wojciech Matusik receives the 2023 Humboldt Research Award
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation conferred the 2023 Humboldt Research Award on Feb. 2, 2024. The award recognizes a researcher's whole body of work. The foundation dates the award to 2023; the conferral followed in February 2024.
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2024-02-01
Congratulations to Dr. Allan Zhao
Allan Zhao's doctoral degree was conferred in February 2024, for the thesis Robot Graph Grammars: Towards Custom Robots for Every Task.
2023
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2023-12-05
Yiyue Luo named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list
Congratulations to CDFG member Yiyue Luo, who was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list! Her inspiring work creates smart textiles that can add sensing and other technology into knitted fabrics. She has developed machine-knitted tactile sensing garments, like vests, socks, and gloves, that can provide real-time data on physical interactions, like a pair of socks could detect a fall or a condition like Parkinson’s non-intrusively. Congratulations, Yiyue!
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2023-11-15
This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects
Computer vision enables contact-free 3D printing, letting engineers print with high-performance materials they could not use before.
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2023-09-18
Seed grant for large language models in design and manufacturing
One of twenty-seven MIT projects funded to explore the impact of generative AI, spanning every school at the Institute.
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2023-08-02
New method simplifies the construction process for complex materials
With a new, user-friendly interface, researchers can quickly design many cellular metamaterial structures that have unique mechanical properties.
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2023-07-07
Learning the language of molecules to predict their properties
This AI system needs only a small amount of data to predict molecular properties, which could speed up drug discovery and material development.
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2023-07-06
The chore of packing just got faster and easier
A new computational method facilitates the dense placement of objects inside a rigid container.
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2023-06-22
Michael Foshey receives an MIT-Pillar AI Collective seed grant
The grant supports autonomous manufacturing assembly with human-like tactile perception. Six teams were funded for AI, data science and machine learning work with potential commercial applications.
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2023-05-22
Two papers to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2023
Two CDFG papers appear at SIGGRAPH 2023. Beichen Li presents “End-to-End Procedural Material Capture with Proxy-Free Mixed-Integer Optimization”, with Liang Shi and Wojciech Matusik. Liane Makatura presents “Procedural Metamaterials: A Unified Procedural Graph for Metamaterial Design”, with Bohan Wang, Bolei Deng, Wojciech Matusik, and collaborators at IST Austria.
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2023-05-22
Liane Makatura wins Design Fellowship from the MIT Morningside Academy for Design
Our lab member, Liane Makatura, has been named as a MAD Design Fellow , as part of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design. Congratulations, Liane!
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2023-04-11
MIT and GIST researchers develop a natural and comfortable Seamless-walk VR locomotion system
CSAIL News story on the paper "Seamless-walk: natural and comfortable virtual reality locomotion method with a high-resolution tactile sensor" (Virtual Reality, 2023).
2022
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2022-12-09
Computational system streamlines the design of fluidic devices
This computational tool can generate an optimal design for a complex fluidic device such as a combustion engine or a hydraulic pump.
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2022-12-07
An automated way to assemble thousands of objects
A new algorithm for automatic assembly of products is accurate, efficient, and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies.
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2022-12-05
Liang Shi awarded Snap Fellowship
Our group member Liang Shi has been award the Snap Fellowship 2022 . Congratulations!
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2022-11-24
VoRF receives a Best Paper Honorable Mention
VoRF: Volumetric Relightable Faces received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the British Machine Vision Conference, London, 21 to 24 November 2022.
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2022-10-26
Liang Shi is elected as the Rising Star of Light by Nature Light Science & Applications
Our group member Liang Shi has been elected as the Rising Star of Light by Nature Light Science & Applications . Congratulations!
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2022-10-20
Wenqiang Winston Chen wins Best Paper award at ACM MobiCom 2022
Our lab member, Wenqiang Winston Chen, received the Best Paper award at the 2022 ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop (S^3) co-located with ACM MobiCom 2022. This award recognizes Winston’s work on the paper entitled, “ViWatch: Harness Vibrations for Finger Interactions with Commodity Smartwatches.” Congratulations, Winston!
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2022-10-03
Two papers accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
Two papers authored by CDFG members have been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 (journal track). Yifei Li and Tao Du will present “Fluidic Topology Optimization with an Anisotropic Mixture Model”. Yunsheng Tian, Jie Xu and Yichen Li will present “Assemble Them All: Physics-Based Planning for Generalizable Assembly by Disassembly.
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2022-08-17
Congratulations to Dr. Xu
Our PhD student Jie Xu is now Dr. XU. Dr. Xu successfully defended his thesis, “Towards Computational Design of Shape and Control for Rigid Robots” last week. Congratulations!
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2022-08-10
Paper accepted to Light: Science & Applications
We propose a end-to-end learning pipeline for sythesizing phase-only 3D holograms in real-time.
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2022-08-02
Using artificial intelligence to control digital manufacturing
Researchers train a machine-learning model to monitor and adjust the 3D printing process to correct errors in real time.
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2022-07-14
Design your own robotic hand
MIT researchers have created an integrated design pipeline that enables a user with no specialized knowledge to quickly craft a customized 3D-printable robotic hand.
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2022-07-14
Beichen Li Recipient of the 2022 Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Beichen Li, a PhD student in CDFG, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2022 MIT EECS Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making for his master’s thesis entitled “Computational Discovery of Microstructured Composites with Optimized Trade-Off between Strength and Toughness,” supervised by Professor Wojciech Matusik.
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2022-06-06
A helping hand for robotic manipulator design
CSAIL News story on the paper "An Integrated Design Pipeline for Tactile Sensing Robotic Manipulators" (ICRA 2022).
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2022-04-29
A one-up on motion capture
A new neural network approach captures the characteristics of a physical system's dynamic motion from video, regardless of rendering configuration or image differences.
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2022-04-18
Digital Fabrication of Pneumatic Actuators with Integrated Sensing by Machine Knitting
We propose a rapid design and fabrication workflow for pneumatic actuators with integrated sensing using digital machine knitting.
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2022-04-14
Paper accepted to CVPR 2022
CDFG members Yunsheng Tian and Yifei Li’s paper “JoinABLe: Learning Bottom-up Assembly of Parametric CAD Joints” has been accepted to CVPR 2022. In this paper, we propose a learning-based method that assembles parts together to form joints without the help of object class labels or human guidance, and a large dataset containing CAD assemblies with rich information.
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2022-04-13
Three papers accepted to ICLR, with two oral presentations!
Three papers authored by CDFG members have been accepted to ICLR 2022, and two have been selected for an oral presentation! Pingchuan Ma and Tao Du will present their work “RISP: Rendering-Invariant State Predictor with Differentiable Simulation and Rendering for Cross-Domain Parameter Estimation.” Minghao Guo and Beichen Li will also present their paper, “Data-Efficient Graph Grammar Learning for Molecular Generation”. The third accepted paper, authored by CDFG member Jie Xu, is titled “Accelerated Policy Learning with Parallel Differentiable Simulation”. Congratulations to all the paper authors!
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2022-04-01
Generating new molecules with graph grammar
An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers.
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2022-02-28
Mina Konakovic Lukovic joins the MIT faculty
Mina Konakovic Lukovic, a Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the group, joins the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor. She now leads the Algorithmic Design Group at CSAIL.
2021
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2021-12-14
Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2021
CDFG UROPs Jagdeep Singh Bhatia , Holly Jackson , and PhD students Yunsheng Tian , Jie Xu ’s paper Evolution Gym: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evolving Soft Robots has been accepted to NeurIPS 2021. In this paper, we propose Evolution Gym, the first large-scale benchmark for co-optimizing the design and control of soft robots.
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2021-10-15
Paper accepted to Science Advances
CDFG member Michael Foshey , and Mina Konaković Luković ’s paper Accelerated discovery of 3D printing materials using data-driven multiobjective optimization has been accepted to Science Advances. In this paper, we present how machine learning can aid the discovery of useful 3D printing material formulations.
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2021-08-26
Alyssa Luo awarded Mathworks Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that CDFG member and 3rd year graduate student Alyssa Luo has been awarded a MathWorks Engineering Fellowship for AY 21-22. Her current research interests involve working on tactile sensing and smart textiles. Congratulations to Alyssa on her fellowship.
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2021-08-26
Liang Shi awarded Facebook Fellowship
CDFG member Liang Shi has been awarded a 2021 Facebook Fellowship in the area of AR/VR computer graphics. Additionally, he has just completed a Summer internship (5/28-8/20) at Facebook Reality Lab Display System Research group. Congratulations to Liang on his fellowship as well as involvement in this Summer internship.
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2021-06-25
Paper accepted to RSS 2021
CDFG member Jie Xu , Lara Zlokapa , and Michael Foshey ’s paper An End-to-End Differentiable Framework for Contact-Aware Robot Design has been accepted to RSS 2021. In this paper, we present an efficient differentiable pipeline to co-optimize the morphology and control of articulated robots.
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2021-06-24
Intelligent carpet gives insight into human poses
Tactical sensing carpet estimates 3D human poses without the use of cameras, and could improve health monitoring and smart homes.
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2021-05-13
KnitUI receives a Best Paper Honorable Mention
KnitUI: Fabricating Interactive and Sensing Textiles with Machine Knitting received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CHI, held online 8 to 13 May 2021.
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2021-04-08
Robo-starfish aims to enable closer study of aquatic life
CSAIL News story on the paper "Underwater Soft Robot Modeling and Control With Differentiable Simulation" (IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021).
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2021-04-02
Five papers conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2021
Five papers authored by CDFG members have been conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2021! We are excited to share these works, and hope you’ll stay tuned for their official releases over the coming months.
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2021-04-01
Paper accepted to CVPR 2021
CDFG member Yiyue Luo , Michael Foshey , and Wan Shou’s paper Intelligent Carpet: Inferring 3D Human Pose from Tactile Signals has been accepted to CVPR 2021. In this paper, we present a 3D human pose estimation approach using vision as supersion and the pressure maps recorded by a large-scale tactile carpet as input. This work is in collobaration with Professor Antonio Torralba ’s group.
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2021-03-30
Papers accepted to ICRA and RAL 2021
Jie Xu’s “Multi-Objective Graph Heuristic Search for Terrestrial Robot Design”, with Andrew Spielberg and Allan Zhao, is accepted to ICRA 2021: co-designing a rigid robot’s control and morphology under multiple objectives. Tao Du’s “Underwater Soft Robot Modeling and Control with Differentiable Simulation”, with Josie Hughes and UROP student Sebastien Wah, is accepted to IEEE RA-L.
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2021-03-28
Paper published at Nature Electronics 2021
The paper Learning Human-environment Interactions using Conformal Tactile Textiles has been published in Nature Electronics 2021. In this paper, we present a full-body tactile textile for the study of human activities. We capture diverse human-environment interactions and demonstrate the capability of our platform to classify humans’ sitting poses, motions and other interactions with the environment, recover dynamic whole-body poses, reveal environmental spatial information and discover biomechanical signatures. Please check out the project webpage for more details.
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2021-03-24
Smart clothes that can measure your movements
CSAIL News story on the paper "Learning human-environment interactions using conformal tactile textiles" (Nature Electronics, 2021).
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2021-03-22
Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense
Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation.
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2021-03-10
Paper published at Nature 2021
CDFG members Liang Shi , Beichen Li , Changil Kim , Petr Kellnhofer ’s paper Towards Real-time Photorealistic 3D Holography with Deep Neural Networks is published at Nature 2021. In their paper, the team presents the first deep-learning-based system for real-time photorealistic 3D hologram synthesis. The paper advances both physically-based methods and introduces the first large-scale 3D hologram dataset. Please check out this summary video for more details!
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2021-01-30
Paper accepted to CHI 2021
Yiyue Luo and Kui Wu present “KnitUI: Fabricating Interactive and Sensing Textiles with Machine Knitting” at CHI 2021: a machine-knitted interface built on resistive pressure sensing, portable, deformable, washable, and customizable, with applications from wearable interfaces to robot skin.
2020
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2020-12-10
Automating material matching for movies and video games
Animators spend hours adding textures to objects. A new machine-learning system simplifies the process.
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2020-12-02
This 3D printer does not gloss over the details
A new system enables realistic variations in glossiness across a 3D-printed surface.
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2020-11-30
Computer-aided creativity in robot design
A new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types.
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2020-11-03
Four papers to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
Four CDFG papers appear at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. Tao Du, Kui Wu, and Andrew Spielberg present “Functional Optimization of Fluidic Devices with Differentiable Stokes Flow”. Allan Zhao, Jie Xu, Mina Konaković Luković, and Andrew Spielberg present “RoboGrammar”. Liang Shi and Beichen Li present “MATch”, and Michal Piovarči and Michael Foshey present “Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing”.
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2020-09-25
Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2020
Mina Konaković Luković and Yunsheng Tian’s paper Diversity-Guided Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization With Batch Evaluations has been accepted to NeurIPS 2020. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-objective Bayesian optimization algorithm called DGEMO that is used to automate the process of discovering the Pareto-optimal solutions for multi-objective problems, while minimizing the number of performed evaluations. Our algorithm predominantly outperforms relevant state-of-the-art methods on all the benchmark problems.
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2020-06-30
Seed grant from the MIT Energy Initiative for solid-state battery materials
With Jennifer Rupp and Elsa Olivetti, the project couples low-cost processing with material screening and performance optimization using machine learning.
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2020-06-08
Paper accepted to Advanced Intelligent Systems
Andrew Spielberg’s wearable glove with hybrid resistive-pressure sensors is published in Advanced Intelligent Systems, with collaborators from Daniela Rus’s lab. The fully soft glove reconstructs hand pose in real time, senses holding force, temperature, and stiffness, and is built from low-cost off-the-shelf parts.
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2020-06-02
New glove lets you incorporate real-life objects into virtual worlds
CSAIL News story on the paper "A Simple, Inexpensive, Wearable Glove with Hybrid Resistive-Pressure Sensors for Computational Sensing, Proprioception, and Task Identification" (Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020).
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2020-05-31
Two papers accepted to ICML 2020
Two papers on multi-objective optimization are accepted to ICML 2020. “Prediction-Guided Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Robot Control”, from Jie Xu, Yunsheng Tian, and Pingchuan Ma, finds Pareto sets for robot control. “Efficient Continuous Pareto Exploration in Multi-Task Learning”, from Pingchuan Ma and Tao Du, generates locally continuous Pareto fronts.
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2020-04-02
Paper accepted to Physical Review Letters
“Physical Realization of Elastic Cloaking with a Polar Material” is accepted to Physical Review Letters. Wan Shou and Beichen Li, with collaborators at the University of Missouri and Dalian University of Technology, fabricate a polar material with asymmetric stresses that realizes an elastic cloak.
2019
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2019-11-22
How to design and control robots with stretchy, flexible bodies
Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is a huge computational problem, but a new model can help.
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2019-09-30
Seed grant from the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program
The project adopts machine learning for end-to-end synthesis of phase-only holograms. Five projects launched the inaugural NCSOFT round.
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2019-09-27
Papers accepted to ICCV and NeurIPS
Petr Kellnhofer’s “Gaze360: Physically Unconstrained Gaze Estimation in the Wild” is accepted to ICCV 2019: a large-scale gaze dataset and a 3D model with temporal context and uncertainty estimates, with Antonio Torralba’s group and Toyota Research Institute.
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2019-08-22
Dr. Changil Kim joins Facebook Research in September
Our very own Postdoctoral researcher Changil Kim is joining Facebook in Seattle as a research scientist in September, after spending two and a half wonderful years in our lab. During his time in our lab, Changil has actively contributed to many research projects, including motion magnification , replicating oil painting , speech to face , and video processing . Congratulations to Changil and wish him all the best in Seattle!
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2019-08-08
Computer-aided knitting covered by BBC!
During the past week, Alex ’s two recent papers on knitting Neural Inverse Knitting: From Images to Manufacturing Instructions (ICML 19) and Knitting Skeletons: Computer-Aided Design Tool for Shaping and Patterning of Knitted Garments (UIST 19) have received lots of media attention, including a recent interview from BBC . The story is also widely reported by TechCrunch , 7News Boston , Mashable , Fortune , VentureBeat , Engadget , ZDNet , Geek , Market Research Finance , Interesting Engineering , Fibre2Fashion , and MIT News .
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2019-08-07
Paper accepted to UIST 2019
Alex ’s latest work Knitting Skeletons: A Computer-Aided Design Tool for Shaping and Patterning of Knitted Garments is officially accepted to UIST 2019. In this paper, Alex and Liane present a novel interactive system for simple garment composition and surface patterning. Both casual users and advanced users can benefit from their system. Check out these beautiful samples to explore the new possibility brought by their tool!
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2019-07-30
Learning to fly in the news!
Jie’s SIGGRAPH paper Learning to Fly: Computational Controller Design for Hybrid UAVs with Reinforcement Learning has been covered by media outlets including Engadget , UASWeekly , Mashable , VentureBeat , SlashGear , Robotics Business Review , Eletronics360 , UberGizmo , DroneLife , Unmanned Aerial , Science Daily , and AI News in the past week. If you are at SIGGRAPH, come to room 151 and check out Jie’s presentation today!
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2019-07-14
One paper accepted to Science Advances
In Science Advances, the group presents an automated system that designs and 3D prints robotic actuators optimized against many specifications at once. Demonstrations include an actuator showing a Van Gogh portrait flat and “The Scream” tilted, and printed water lilies whose petals fold under magnetic fields.
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2019-06-10
MIT simulator lets users design wide range of functional soft robots
CSAIL News story on the paper "ChainQueen: A Real-Time Differentiable Physical Simulator for Soft Robotics" (ICRA 2019).
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2019-06-04
A 3D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
MIT startup Inkbit is overcoming traditional constraints to 3D printing by giving its machines eyes and brains.
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2019-05-29
Paper published in Nature
“Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove” is published in Nature. A ten-dollar tactile glove and deep convolutional networks identify held objects, estimate their weight, and expose the tactile patterns of grasping, from a 135,000-frame dataset spanning 26 objects.
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2019-05-13
One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2019
Our PhD student Jie Xu will present his latest work “ Learning to Fly: Computational Controller Design for Hybrid UAVs with Reinforcement Learning ” at SIGGRAPH 2019 this summer. In this paper, Jie proposed a novel neural network controller design for hybrid UAVs, an aerial robot that is challenging to control due to its complex aerodynamic effects. His method allows us to directly apply a controller trained in simulation to real hybrid UAV hardware without any modification. Checkout his website and the project page to find more!
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2019-04-21
One paper accepted to ICML 2019
Alex and Tae-Hyun ’s latest paper on neural inverse knitting is accepted to ICML 2019. In this paper, they introduce the new problem of automatic machine instruction generation using a single image of the desired physical product. Check out the project page to learn more about the way they tackle the problem and see a dataset of real knitting samples!
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2019-03-27
Tae-Hyun Oh joined FAIR
After spending one and a half wonderful years in our lab, our very own Postdoctoral researcher, Tae-Hyun Oh , joined Faceboook AI Research , Cambridge, MA, which is located across the street. During his stay at MIT, Tae-Hyun has contributed to a wide range of research projects, including Motion Magnification , Soft Segmentation , Speech2Face , and Inverse Knitting. Congratulations to Tae-Hyun, and wish him the best of luck in the future!
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2019-02-19
One paper accepted to ICRA 2019
Yuanming ’s latest paper ChainQueen was accepted to ICRA 2019. In this paper, he presented a differentiable deformable body simulator that opens up lots of possibilities for efficient controller and geometry design algorithms in robotics. Check out this video to see what amazining work can be done using his simulator!
2018
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2018-12-02
DeepPainting in the news!
Liang Shi ’s Siggraph Asia paper: Deep Multispectral Painting Reproduction via Multi-Layer, Custom-Ink Printing , has been covered by lots of media outlets including TechCrunch , Forbes 1 , Forbes 2 , Fast Company , Engadget , The Telegraph , WIRED Italy , Daily Mail , MIT News , 3D Printing Media Network , MIT Sloan Management Review , New Atlas , and many more! Please check out his website for paper and data, or come to his talk if you are also at Siggraph Asia this week!
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2018-11-29
Higher-res models for creating structures with complex features
CSAIL News story on the paper "Narrow-band topology optimization on a sparsely populated grid" (SIGGRAPH Asia 2018).
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2018-11-06
CDFG alumna Adriana Schulz won MIT EECS's PhD thesis award
Congratulations to our CDFG alumna Adriana Schulz , now an assistant professor at University of Washington, on getting the MIT EECS’s George M. Sprowls Awards for Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science!
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2018-09-23
Three papers accepted to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2018
Our group will present three papers at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2018 in Tokyo this December: Narrow-Band Topology Optimization on a Sparsely Populated Grid , InverseCSG: Automatic Conversion of 3D Models to CSG Trees , and Deep Multispectral Painting Reproduction via Multi-Layer, Custom-Ink Printing . Congratulations to Yuanming Hu , Tao Du , and Liang Shi !
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2018-08-21
An AI for CGI
CSAIL News story on the paper "Semantic soft segmentation" (SIGGRAPH 2018).
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2018-08-16
Interactive exploration of design trade-offs in the news!
Adriana ’s latest SIGGRAPH paper Interactive Exploration of Design Trade-Offs was covered in MIT news and Tech Explorist yesterday. Check out this project webpage to know more, or come to her presentation today if you are also at SIGGRAPH!
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2018-07-09
Three papers accepted to ECCV 2018
Three papers from our group have been accepted to ECCV this year: Learning-Based Video Motion Magnification , A Dataset Of Flash And Ambient Illumination Pairs From The Crowd , and Learning To Zoom: A Saliency-Based Sampling Layer For Neural Networks . More details will be available soon!
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2018-07-09
Dr. Sundaram joined Boston University
After successfully defending his PhD thesis in our group, Dr. Subramanian Sundaram joined the Chen Lab at Boston University as a postdoctoral researcher last week. Good luck, Subra! Hope you are doing well across the river!
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2018-06-29
Dr. Bo Zhu joins Dartmouth College in 2018 fall
Dr. Bo Zhu , our postdoctoral researcher, will join the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College as an assistant professor in the fall of 2018. Congratulations to Bo and wish him good luck!
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2018-06-29
Dr. Adriana Schulz joins University of Washington in 2018 fall
Our postdoctoral researcher Adriana Schulz , who recently obtained her PhD from our group, will join the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington as an assistant professor in the fall of 2018. Congratuations to Adriana and wish her all the best in the future!
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2018-05-21
Congratulations to Dr. Sundaram!
Our PhD student Subramanian Sundaram successfully defended his PhD thesis “3D-printing Form and Function” this morning. His thesis committee members are Prof. Wojciech Matusik , Prof. Marc Baldo , and Prof. Vladimir Bulovic . Congratulations to Dr. Sundaram and wish him all the best in his future endeavors!
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2018-05-17
Two papers accepted to SIGGRAPH 2018
Adriana Schulz , who recently defended her PhD thesis in our group, will present her work Interactive Exploration of Design Trade-Offs at SIGGRAPH 2018. In this paper, Adriana and her coauthors presented a new method to interactively explore the Pareto front in the performance space of a design problem. This is joint work with Professor Eitan Grinspun at Columbia University and Professor Justin Solomon at MIT CSAIL.
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2018-05-08
Congratulations to Dr. Schulz!
Our PhD student Adriana Schulz is now Dr. Schulz. Dr. Schulz successfully defended her thesis, “Computational Design for the Next Manufacturing Revolution” yesterday. Congratulations!
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2018-04-17
Petr Kellnhofer won Eurographics Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis
Our postdoctoral researcher Petr Kellnhofer received this year’s Eurographics Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis for his strong technical contribution in perceptual modeling for stereoscopic 3D by running dedicated perceptual studies, deriving new perceptual models from his findings, and integrating these models in computer graphics algorithms. Congratulations!
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2018-04-04
James Minor received NSERC Scholarship
Our Ph.D. student James Minor was recently awarded the NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) postgraduate scholarship for his academic excellence, research ability, and leadership abilities. This prestigious and highly competitive scholarship will support James financially for the next two years. Congratulations to James!
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2018-03-01
AutoSaw in the news!
AutoSaw , a robotic carpenter developed in Adriana Schulz ’s latest ICRA paper Robot Assisted Carpentry for Mass Customization , has attracted a lot of media attention from MIT News , BBC News , New Atlas , cnet , Designboom , BGR , engadget , Popular Mechanics , The Verge , Business Insider Australia , Inverse , Science Daily , IEEE Spectrum , New Atlas , Electronics360 , and many more!
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2018-02-02
Automating materials design
With a new approach, researchers specify the desired properties of a material and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.
2017
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2017-10-26
Melina Skouras joins Inria in December
After spending two wonderful years in our group as a Postdoctoral researcher, Melina Skouras is joining the IMAGINE team at Inria Grenoble as a tenured research scientist in December. Melina has helped many of us in various research projects with her knowledge and expertise. Congratulations to Melina on her next move in career!
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2017-09-27
One paper accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
Congratulations to Liang Shi on his newly accepted paper Near-eye Light Field Holographic Rendering with Spherical Waves for Wide Field of View Interactive 3D Computer Graphics at SIGGRAPH Asia this year! In this paper Liang and his colleagues at Nvidia present a light field-based CGH rendering pipeline allowing for reproduction of high-definition 3D scenes with continuous depth and support of intra-pupil view-dependent occlusion. Want to learn more? Please check out their project page and this cool video !
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2017-09-27
Congratulations to Dr. Chen!
Our very own Desai Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis Multiscale Methods for Fabrication Design this afternoon. His thesis committee members are Professor Wojciech Matusik , Professor Justin Solomon , and Professor Markus J. Buehler . Congratulations to Dr. Chen, and wish him the best of luck for everything in the future!
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2017-09-13
3D-printed self-folding electronics on MIT front page!
Subramanian Sundaram ’s recent work 3D-printed self-folding electronics was selected as Today’s spotlight on MIT front page this morning! In this paper, Subra and his colleagues built a prototype self-folding printable device that includes electrical leads and a polymer “pixel” that changes from transparent to opaque when a voltage is applied to it. Check out this video to learn more about this tiny and cute self-folding robot!
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2017-09-01
New PhD student joining our group
We are pleased to announce that Yuanming Hu is joining our group as a PhD student starting from September 2017. Yuanming obtained his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Yao class at Tsinghua University . His research interests include physics-based simulation and rendering, as well as many other topics in computer graphics. Yuanming is also the author of Taichi , a popular open-source computer graphics software that implements more than 40 Siggraph/ToG papers. Welcome!
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2017-08-23
Interactive Robogami in the news!
08-23-2017
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2017-08-04
Two-scale topology optimization in the news!
Bo Zhu ’s paper Two-scale topology optimization with microstructures was featured at the front page of MIT News today! In this paper, Bo proposed a method that can efficiently genrate high-resolution 3D-printable structures with more than a trillion elements with just a regular computer.
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2017-08-02
New Postdoc joining our group
Tae-Hyun Oh is joining our group as a new postdoctoral research starting from this summer. He received his PhD from KAIST where he worked with Prof. In So Kweon and Prof. Jinwoo Shin. He is a recipient of Microsoft Research Asia fellowship, gold prize of Samsung HumanTech thesis award, Qualcomm Innovation award, and top research achievement awards from KAIST. Welcome Tae-Hyun!
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2017-07-30
Computational multicopter design code release
After several months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the source code from our SIGGRAPH ASIA paper Computational Multicopter Design , which is now available on GitHub under the GNU General Public License v2:
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2017-07-29
One paper accepted at SCA 2017
Cables provide a natural, biomimetic means of actuating robots, but figuring out how to route them to get the motion you want can be unintuitive. Our methods automate this process, and make it easy to design puppets, animatronics, and robots, for novices and experts alike. See the full paper at SCA ‘17.
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2017-07-28
Jumping bots in the news!
Desai Chen ’s paper Dynamics-Aware Numerical Coarsening for Fabrication Design has received media attention from MIT NEWS , phys.org , and Science Daily . Desai will present his work at SIGGRAPH 2017 next week.
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2017-07-26
InstantCAD in the news!
Tired of spending time meant for your mechanical design work actually just waiting for simulations to finish?
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2017-07-21
Andrew Spielberg presented a talk at RSS workshop
PhD student Andrew Spielberg presented “Co-Optimization of Robots and Mechanisms” at the RSS workshop on minimality, covering ICRA 2017 work on co-optimizing whole-body robot trajectories and design parameters from high-level task specifications, plus follow-on work on fabricable cable-driven mechanisms.
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2017-07-14
3DTV in the news!
Petr’s work 3DTV at home has been covered by many media outlets including TechCrunch, CNET , Yahoo News , Mashable , Engadget , Daily Mail , Digital Trends and MIT NEWS . Petr’s is going to present his work at this year’s SIGGRAPH. Looking forward to his presentation!
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2017-04-27
Genuine enthusiasm for AI
Machine learning is one of the hottest subjects on campus. Wojciech Matusik co-teaches 6.036, Introduction to Machine Learning, with Pablo Parrilo.
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2017-03-30
6 papers to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2017
This year our group is going to present 6 papers at Siggraph 2017:
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2017-03-30
3D-Printed Autonomous Sensory Composites in the news
Our paper 3D-Printed Autonomous Sensory Composites has received a lot of media attention, including MIT News , TechCrunch , Engadget , Digital Trends , Yahoo! , 3ders , 3dprint , the science times , and many more! Check out the project page for details.
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2017-03-13
New paper accepted by Advanced Materials Technologies
Congratulations to Subramanian Sundaram on his newly accepted paper “ 3D-Printed Autonomous Sensory Composites ”, which was selected as the back cover image by Advanced Materials Technologies! Check out to find more!
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2017-02-01
New paper accepted by TOG
Adriana Schulz ’s paper “ Retrieval On Parametric Shape Collections ” was accepted by TOG, which will also be presented at SIGGRAPH this year. Congratulations and looking forward to her presentation!
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2017-01-31
Welcome our new group members!
New post-doctoral associate Petr Kellnhofer joined our group in January from MPI Informatik and Saarland University. Petr visited our group in 2016 and this time he will use the research and knowledge garnered during his successful PhD thesis work to enhance all of our research efforts. Welcome back Petr!
2016
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2016-12-13
Computational multicopter design in the news
Our paper Computational Multicopter Design has been covered by more than a dozen major media outlets, including WIRED , MIT News , TechCrunch , Vice , Fast Company , Engadget , Popular Mechanics , IEEE Spectrum , New Atlas , ZDNet , Digital Trends , PC Magazine , Robotics Trends , and Yahoo News .
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2016-11-10
Position available: Postdoctoral Associate
We are seeking a postdoctoral associate with a PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering. To apply for this position please click here .
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2016-11-04
Check out our SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 papers!
We have 2 papers accepted to Siggraph Asia this year: Computational Multicopter Design presents an interactive system for computational design, optimization, and fabrication of multicopters, and Stochastic Structural Analysis For Context-Aware Design And Fabrication proposes failure probabilities as a semantically and mechanically meaningful measure of object fragility.
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2016-10-24
aeroMorph won Honorable Mention Awards at UIST 2016!
aeroMorph - Heat-sealing Inflatable Shape-change Materials for Interaction Design got Honorable Mention Awards at UIST 2016. Congratulations to Melina Skouras and her co-authors!
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2016-10-16
Foundry in the news
Our UIST paper Foundry has received a lot of media attention ( techcrunch , 3dprint , mit news , csail news , engadget , zdnet , fastweb , 3ders , 3dprintingindustry , azomaterials )! Check our project page for details!
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2016-09-29
New Postdoc joining our group
Changil Kim is joining our group as a new Postdoctoral researcher this fall. Welcome!
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2016-09-01
New students joining our group
Jie Xu and Aric Bartle are joining our group as new PhD students this fall! Welcome, welcome!
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2016-08-10
Simit in the news
Our SIGGRAPH paper Simit is in MIT news today!
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2016-08-01
Check out our SIGGRAPH papers!
Check out our 5 papers presented at this year’s SIGGRAPH: Perceptual Model , Simit , 3D TV screen , acoustic voxels and knitting compiler .
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2016-08-01
Check out our SIGGRAPH course!
Check out our SIGGRAPH 2016 course on computational tools for 3D printing!
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2016-07-25
3D TV screen in MIT news!
Our SIGGRAPH paper 3D TV screen received media coverage from MIT news today!
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2016-07-24
New Postdoc joining our group this summer
Sung-Ho Bae joins our group as a new postdoc this summer. Welcome welcome!
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2016-07-21
Media coverage on knitting compiler
Our SIGGRAPH paper A Compiler For 3D Machine Knitting got media attention ( 3dprint , phys.org )!
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2016-07-20
Acoustic voxels received media coverage
Our SIGGRAPH paper Acoustic Voxels: Computational Optimization of Modular Acoustic Filters received a lot of media attention: science daily , 3dprint , 3ders and phys.org .
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2016-07-01
David Levin joined the University of Toronto
Our very own David Levin joined the Dynamic Graphics Project at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations and best of luck!
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2016-06-15
Eye-tracking system uses an ordinary cellphone camera
Crowd-sourced data yields a system that determines where mobile-device users are looking.
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2016-01-29
Sami Alsheikh profiled by MIT News
Sami Alsheikh, a SuperUROP in the group working on radar sensing, is profiled as a computer science and engineering major who helps people while having fun.
2015
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2015-11-04
System automatically converts 2D video to 3D
Exploiting video game software yields broadcast-quality 3D video of soccer games in real time.
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2015-10-30
Next in 3D printing: the zoolophone, a new musical instrument made of animal shapes
CSAIL News story on the paper "Computational design of metallophone contact sounds" (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015).
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2015-09-03
Customizing 3D printing
A design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.
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2015-08-24
MultiFab 3D prints a record 10 materials at once, no assembly required
The printer uses machine vision and 3D scanning to self-correct and to directly embed components.
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2015-08-15
New papers accepted
We have two new papers accepted to ACM Siggraph Asia 2015, one to UIST 2015, and one to ACM Multimedia 2015.
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2015-08-01
Presentations at Siggraph 2015
We have three papers accepted to ACM Siggraph 2015: “Data-driven finite elements for geometry and material design”, “Fab forms: customizable objects for fabrication with validity and geometry caching”, “MultiFab: a machine vision assisted platform for multi-material 3D printing.” We will be also presenting a talk on “Interactive Robogami: Data-Driven Design for 3D Print and Fold Robots with Ground Locomotion” and a course on “ Computational Tools for 3D Printing ”.
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2015-06-01
New post-doctoral associates and a vistor join CDFG
New post-doctoral associates Melina Skouras from ETH Zurich and Bo Zhu from Stanford University join our group. We also welcome Petr Kellnhofer from MPI Saarbrucken.
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2015-05-19
Wojciech Matusik receives tenure
Wojciech Matusik is among thirteen tenure appointments in the School of Engineering, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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2015-03-26
Talk at MIT Europe Conference in Vienna
Professor Matusik is a speaker at the MIT Europe Conference in Vienna - “From Digital to Real: Get Ready to Make Just About Anything in Your Own Home.” He is also interviewed by Wiener Zeitung .
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2015-01-01
Paper accepted to Eurographics 2015
Our paper on “ Approximating Free-form Geometry with Height Fields for Manufacturing ” is accepted to Eurographics 2015
2014
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2014-12-01
Talks at Yale, Cornell, CMU, and Stanford
Professor Matusik talks on “Abstrations for Multi-material Fabrication” at Yale, Cornell, CMU , and Stanford University .
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2014-10-01
Paper accepted to ACM Siggraph Asia 2014
Our paper “ Improving visual quality of view transitions in automultiscopic displays ” is accepted to ACM Siggraph Asia 2014.
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2014-09-15
Paper accepted to ACM Multimedia 2014
Our paper “ Anahita: A System for 3D Video Streaming with Depth Customization ” is accepted to ACM Multimedia 2014.
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2014-09-01
New graduate students join CDFG
New graduate students: Subra Sundaram, Alexandre Kaspar, and Wei Zhao join CDFG.
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2014-08-11
CSAIL team puts design in your hands
Fab By Example lets you quickly create thousands of custom designs for furniture, go-carts, and more.
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2014-08-01
Four papers presented at Siggraph 2014
Our group has presented four publications at Siggraph 2014:
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2014-07-15
Professor Matusik delivers a keynote at SGP
Professor Matusik is a keynote speaker at the Symposium on Computational Geometry this year. More information can be found on the SGP website .
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2014-06-03
Wojciech Matusik receives the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
The School of Engineering recognizes outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students, in its annual awards.
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2014-05-25
Professor Matusik speaks at the MIT-Europe Conference
Professor Matusik has given a talk at the MIT-Europe Conference. The conference this year focusses on advanced manufacturing and new urbanism.
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2014-04-15
Professor Matusik delivers a keynote at Eurographics 2014
Professor Matusik has delivered a keynote “From Virtual to Real” at Eurographics 2014 .
2013
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2013-11-25
Yuwang Wang joins CDFG
Please welcome Yuwang Wang, our new visiting student from the BBNC lab at Tsinghua University.
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2013-07-24
New ways to streamline and simplify 3D printing
Research presented at SIGGRAPH 2013 could transform the field of 3D printing.
2012
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2012-08-03
CSAIL Donates 3-D Printer to Weston Middle School
Wojciech Matusik led a RapMan 3.2 printer build with CSAIL's Jack Costanza and Gerald Sussman for Weston Middle School students during Educational Outreach visit day.
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2012-07-09
Matusik Named DARPA Young Faculty Award Winner
Wojciech Matusik is named a recipient of the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, recognizing rising research stars in junior faculty positions.
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2012-04-03
All in a day's work: design and print your own robot
An MIT project, funded with a $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production.
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2012-02-16
Wojciech Matusik awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship
Gedik, Matusik and Pathak are among 126 researchers selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
2011
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2011-02-16
CSAIL Members Promoted
MIT announces the promotion of three CSAIL members: Erik Demaine and Piotr Indyk to full professor, and Wojciech Matusik to associate professor.
2005
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2005-06-01
Honorable mention, George M. Sprowls Award for the best doctoral thesis
The EECS awards recognize Wojciech Matusik (PhD 2004) with an honorable mention for the George M. Sprowls Award in computer science.
2004
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2004-09-22
Wojciech Matusik named to the MIT Technology Review TR100
Three MIT faculty are named to the TR100, Technology Review's list of the world's top innovators under 35.