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I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and part of the Algorithmic Design Group . I am working with Professor Mina Konaković Luković on research in differentiable simulation and metamaterial design. My research has been recognized by the Adobe Research Fellowship (2022) , Dean's Dissertation Fellowship (2022–2023) , and Jacob T. Schwartz Ph.D. Fellowship (2021) .
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in May 2023 advised by Professor Daniele Panozzo . As a member of the Geometric Computing Lab , I worked on research in computer graphics, physical simulation, and digital fabrication with the goal of designing robust algorithms that reduce the amount of interactive user work, allowing the automatic simulation of a large number of challenging designs and scenarios.
I earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from George Mason University in 2017. While there, I worked with Professor Yotam Gingold as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Creativity and Graphics Lab . Our work in texture mapping, 3D modeling, and numerical optimization culminated in the publication of "Seamless: Seam erasure and seam-aware decoupling of shape from mesh resolution" at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017.
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