About me
- TL;DR: one-page resume / CV
- Currently a postdoc at TU Berlin working with Prof. Dr. Marc Alexa.
- Research interests ⊃ { geometry processing, physics simulation, fabrication, general computer graphics }
- Experienced (published papers) in geometric deep learning, geometry optimization, and physics-based simulation of all kinds of materials (solids, fluids, waves, cloth, hair, friction/contact, deformable bodies, plasticity, visco-elasto-plasticity, and fracture/damage).
- Research meta-strategy ⊃ { formulating the continuous optimization problem, embracing distributional spaces, fast prototyping, LLM-assisted paper survey, unit testing }
- Previously a Research Engineer at Adobe Research (supervisor: Qingnan Zhou), a postdoc at UC San Diego (mentor: Albert Chern).
- PhD in Mathematics from UCLA (advisor: Joseph Teran) and BS in Mathematics from NTU.
- I served in the following organizations: Women in Math at UCLA, UCLA Math Grad Student Organization, UCLA Math and Physical Sciences Council, UCLA Grad Student Association. In 2017, I created the UCLA Women In Math Mentorship Program to strengthen the community and encourage connections between undergraduate and graduate women in math.
- My hobbies = { hiking (see my Via Alpina Green experience), fiber arts, cooking }
- WiGRAPH featured me in an interview, and you can find out more about me there.
Publications and Preprints
Variational Neural Surfacing of 3D Sketches
Yutao Zhang, Stephanie Wang, Mikhail Bessmeltsev
SA ‘25: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers
Paper (pdf) Source code (Python)
Implicit UVs: Real-time Semi-global Parameterization of Implicit Surfaces
Baptiste Genest, Pierre Gueth, Jérémy Levallois, Stephanie Wang
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2025)
e Paper (pdf) Supplemental (pdf) Video (download mp4) Fast-forward (YouTube) 23-min talk (YouTube)
Exterior Calculus in Graphics
Stephanie Wang, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Albert Chern
SIGGRAPH ‘23: ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Courses
Visit project page for abstract, course notes, and SIGGRAPH 2023 presentation info!
Physical Cyclic Animations
Shiyang Jia, Stephanie Wang, Tzu-Mao Li, Albert Chern
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SCA 2023)
Paper (pdf) Video (YouTube)
Wave Simulations in Infinite Spacetime
Chad McKell, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Stephanie Wang, Albert Chern
Preprint (arXiv pdf)
Fluid Cohomology
Hang Yin, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Baichuan Wu, Stephanie Wang, Albert Chern
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2023)
Paper (pdf) Video (YouTube)
Source code (Houdini and C++)
Covector Fluids
Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Stephanie Wang, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Albert Chern
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022)
Paper (pdf) Video (YouTube)
Source code (C++)
DeepCurrents: Learning Implicit Representations of Shapes with Boundaries
David Palmer, Dmitriy Smirnov, Stephanie Wang, Albert Chern, Justin Solomon
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)
Paper (pdf) CVPR talk (YouTube)
Source code (GitHub repo)
Role detection in bicycle-sharing networks using multilayer stochastic block models
Jane Carlen, Jaume de Dios Pont, Cassidy Mentus, Shyr-Shea Chang, Stephanie Wang, Mason A. Porter
Network Science, 2022
Cambridge Core Link
Computational micromechanics of porous brittle solids
Lars Blatny, Henning Löwe, Stephanie Wang, Johan Gaume
Computers and Geotechnics, 2021
Science Direct link
Computing minimal surfaces with differential forms
Stephanie Wang and Albert Chern
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021)
Paper (pdf) Video (Vimeo) SIGGRAPH talk (Vimeo)
Source code (GitHub repo) Houdini Demo (Vimeo)
A Material Point Method for Elastoplasticity with Ductile Fracture and Frictional Contact
Stephanie Wang Doctoral Dissertation, University of California–Los Angeles, 2020. (ProQuest link)
A thermomechanical material point method for baking and cooking
Mengyuan Ding, Xuchen Han, Stephanie Wang, Theodore F. Gast, Joseph M. Teran
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019)
Paper (pdf) Video (YouTube) Tech Doc (pdf)
Simulation and Visualization of Ductile Fracture with the Material Point Method
Stephanie Wang, Mengyuan Ding, Theodore F. Gast, Leyi Zhu, Steven Gagniere, Chenfanfu Jiang, Joseph M. Teran
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SCA 2019) (Best Paper Awardee)
Paper (pdf) Video (YouTube)(Vimeo) Tech Doc (pdf)
Hybrid Material Point Method for Frictional Contact with Diverse Materials
Xuchen Han, Theodore F. Gast, Qi Guo, Stephanie Wang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Joseph Teran
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SCA 2019)
Paper (pdf) Video (YouTube) Tech Doc (pdf)
Talks and Slides
- Your implicit geometries can be more explicit (slides, short version) (long version slides are available upon request)
- Exterior Calculus in Graphics (full content available on ACM DL) (lecture notes ver 1.00)
- Capturing Surfaces using Differential Forms (full content available on YouTube) (slides)
- Simulation and Visualization of Ductile Fracture with the Material Point Method (slides)