Carnegie Mellon Graphics Seminar

The Carnegie Mellon Graphics Seminar invites early-career researchers broadly in computer graphics to present their work to the Carnegie Mellon graphics community. The seminar runs several times during the academic year, and includes an hour-long talk and (optionally) a visit to Carnegie Mellon.

Upcoming seminars

  • 02/09/2026: Ticha Sethapakdi (MIT) – TBD
  • 12/01/2025: Ziyi Zhang (EPFL) – TBD
  • 11/17/2025: Markus Worchel (TUB) – Efficient Differentiable Rendering in Graphics and Beyond

Previous seminars

  • 10/16/2025: Ishit Mehta (UCSD) – Inverse Rendering of Geometry
  • 09/08/2025: Gilbert Bernstein (UW) – Treating 3d Design and Fabrication as Programming Language and Software Engineering Problems
  • 04/28/2025: Chaoyang Wang (Snap) – 4D content generation of dynamic scenes
  • 04/22/2025: Varun Sundar (Wisconsin) – Software-defined Single-Photon Imaging
  • 04/21/2025: Karima Ma (MIT) – Domain-Specific Program Search
  • 04/15/2025: Haley So (Stanford) – In-Pixel Compute for Bandwidth Efficient Imaging and Perception
  • 02/27/2025: Kushagra Tiwary (MIT) – What if Eye…? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution
  • 11/19/2024: Florian Schiffers (Northwestern) – Seeing Beyond Pixels: Holography’s Mission to Craft the Ultimate Visual Experience
  • 10/29/2024: Berthy Feng (Caltech) – Score-based Diffusion Models as Principled Priors for Inverse Imaging
  • 10/22/2024: Anthony Bisulco (UPenn) – High-Speed Event-Based Perception-Action Systems
  • 10/11/2024: Felix Hähnlein (UW) – Dynamic abstractions for sustainable product design
  • 10/04/2024: Yuliang Xiu (MPI-IS) – PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Truly Unconstrained 2D Photos
  • 09/20/2024: Artem Lukoianov (MIT) – Score Distillation via Reparametrized DDIM
  • 09/17/2024: Anagh Malik (Toronto) – Multiview Reconstruction using Transients
  • 06/04/2024: Tzofi Klinghoffer (MIT) – PlatoNeRF
  • 04/10/2024: Huancheng Lin (HKU) – Analytical Hessian and Spatial Adaptivity for Efficient Simulation of Elasticity
  • 03/27/2024: Kemeng Huang (HKU) – High performance physical simulation
  • 12/01/2023: Mengqi Xia (EPFL) – Physically realistic rendering of complex materials using wave optics
  • 10/06/2023: Ruoshi Liu (Columbia) – Generating the 3D World
  • 09/01/2023: Guy Tevet (Tel-Aviv) – Human Motion Diffusion Model
  • 08/16/2022: Akshat Dave (Rice) – Polarization-aided Inverse Rendering
  • 05/31/2022: Donald Dansereau (Sydney) – Robotic Imaging: From Photons to Actions
  • 05/10/2022: Amit Bermano (TAU) – CLIP as a generative foundation model
  • 05/03/2022: Georg Sperl (IST) – Knitting together methods for efficient yarn-cloth simulation
  • 04/26/2022: Shlomi Steinberg (UCSB) – Physical Light Transport
  • 04/19/2022: Yifan Peng (Stanford) – Neural Holography
  • 04/12/2022: Thomas Müller (NVIDIA) – Instant Neural Graphics Primitives
  • 04/05/2022: Delio Vicini (EPFL) – Efficient and Accurate Physically-based Differentiable Rendering
  • 03/29/2022: Alexandr Kuznetsov (UCSD) – Neural Materials: NeuMIP and Beyond
  • 03/22/2022: Nathan Matsuda (Meta Reality Labs) – Reverse Passthrough VR
  • 03/08/2022: Eric Ryan Chan (Stanford) – Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networks
  • 11/30/2021: Rinon Gal (Tel-Aviv) – StyleGAN-NADA: CLIP Guided Domain Adaptation of Image Generators
  • 04/20/2021: Zhengqin Li (UCSD) – Physically-motivated Deep Inverse Rendering with Complex Materials and Lighting
  • 04/13/2021: Seung-hwan Baek (Princeton) – Beyond Human Vision: Computational Imaging with Light Waves
  • 04/06/2021: Pratul Srinivasan (Berkeley) – Extending Neural Radiance Fields
  • 03/30/2021: Daria Atkinson (UPenn) – Let me spin you a yarn: fiber geometry and the elasticity of twisted filaments
  • 03/23/2021: Wenzheng Chen (Toronto) – Differentiable Imaging System
  • 02/09/2021: Atul Ingle (Wisconsin) – Computational Imaging with Single-Photon Cameras
  • 02/02/2021: Kathryn Heal (Harvard) – A Lighting-Invariant Approach to Shape from Shading
  • 12/22/2020: Grace Kuo (Berkeley) – Exploiting Randomness in Computational Cameras and Displays
  • 12/15/2020: Stephanie Wang (UCSD) – Capturing Surfaces with Differential Forms
  • 12/08/2020: Samaneh Azadi (Berkeley) – Towards Content-Creative AI
  • 11/24/2020: Benedikt Bitterli (Dartmouth) – Real-time rendering in the age of hardware raytracing: Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lighting
  • 11/10/2020: Silvia Sellán (Toronto) – Developable Surfaces: A case study in discrete differential geometry
  • 10/20/2020: Chen Bar (Technion) – Rendering Near-Field Speckle Statistics in Scattering Media
  • 09/08/2020: Oded Stein (MIT) – An Exploration of Knots and Links
  • 09/03/2020: Eatka Jain (Florida) – User Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars

Supporters

The Carnegie Mellon Graphics Seminar is hosted by the Carnegie Mellon Graphics Lab. If you are interested in supporting the seminar as a sponsor, please contact us.