Shape DeCo Lab Members Zezhou Sun and Xingjian Jessie Han recently participated in the BU PhD Hooding Ceremony. Congratulations to both on their achievements!

Congratulations to Zezhou Sun on defending his PhD thesis titled: "From Ideal Geometry to Physical Reality: Design, Assembly, and Analysis of Interlocking Structures with Tolerance".

Congratulations to Xingjian Han on defending her PhD thesis titled: "Physics Infused Human Motion Dynamics and its Applications in Computational Wearable Design".

Whiting is among 25 grant recipients, supporting the creation and delivery of accessibility-infused college curricula.

Emily Whiting gave a keynote talk on “Making Objects that Stretch & Squish using Graphics & Mechanics” at the 2022 ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication. The event was held at University of Washington in Seattle.

A networking opportunity for researchers, faculty, and students. The event hosted a panel of women in graphics who shared their research experience.

Emily Whiting among five BU faculty to receive the 2021 NSF CAREER award. Read BU Brink article: “5 Projects That Push the Limits of Physics, Fabrication Techniques, Algorithm Design”

Congratulations to PhD student Xingjian Han for landing a summer internship at Adobe Research. Xingjian will partner with Adobe researchers and collaborate on state-of-the-art technologies.

WiGRAPH interview with Prof Whiting about hosting ACM SCF as a virtual conference.

Emily Whiting was awarded the NSF CAREER grant to support research on the geometry and mechanics of textile-based structural design.

Prof. Ed Chien introduces a new CS Topics course on Geometry Processing in Spring 2021.

Shape Lab PhD grad, Athina Panotopoulou, was selected for the prestigious EECS Rising Stars program 2020, hosted by UC Berkeley.

Congratulations to Athina Panotopoulou on defending her PhD thesis titled: "Stylized 2D Fabrication of Non-Photorealistic Images". Committee members: Wojciech Jarosz, Xing-Dong Yang, and Sylvain Paris.

TangibleCircuits will receive an award for Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CHI 2020. The paper is authored by Josh Urban Davis, Te-Yen Wu, Bo Shi, Hanyi Lui, Athina Panotopoulou, Emily Whiting, and Xing-Dong Yang.

Emily Whiting is General Chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, Co-Chaired with John Hart (MIT) and Cindy Sung (Penn). The symposium gathers experts across academia and industry in Engineering, Computer Science, and Design.

Fabric Formwork project featured on The Brink: Pioneering Research from Boston University: “BU computer scientists unveil software that can design beautiful 3D shapes and structures from stitched-together fabric patterns” (See full article)

“BU computer scientist, who has used custom software to fabricate indoor versions of her favorite rock-climbing routes, awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship” (See full article)

Prof Whiting was awarded an NSF grant to investigate Computational Joinery with Co-PI’s Devin Balkcom and Weifu Wang. Sponsored by the Robust Intelligence (RI) Program within the Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Division.

Outside magazine interviewed Emily Whiting and co-author Ladislav Kavan for recent work on Fabrication of Climbing Experiences. See the full article: “How Two Scientists Will Build Mountains.”

The award supports a collaborative proposal by PI Emily Whiting, Co-PI Keith Brown (Mech Eng) and Co-PI Elise Morgan (Mech Eng).

Our work at UIST'17 on Thermal Comfort Design of 3D Printed Casts was covered by 3DPrint.com. See the full article.

Emily Whiting is one of seven BU junior faculty chosen for a Career Development Professorship this fall. All of this year’s winners have been recognized for their accomplishments in their area of study and as emerging leaders in their field.

Our CHI 2017 paper "Environment-Scale Fabrication" has received coverage in numerous media outlets including CNN, Digital Trends, engadget, KSL News, U.S. News & World Report, and Daily Mail

Emily Whiting was interviewed by NBC 5 on recent work in environmental-scale fabrication of outdoor rock climbing routes. Check out the full story.