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".
Emily Whiting receives academic gift funding from Reality Labs Research, a division of Meta
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Xingjian Han Defends PhD Thesis
Emily Whiting awarded Teach Access grant
Emily Whiting Keynote Speaker at ACM SCF '22
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.
Emily Whiting panelist at SGP WiGRAPH Event
BU Brink article on NSF CAREER award recipients
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”
Xingjian Han Interning at Adobe Research
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.
Emily Whiting Featured in WiGRAPH Path Tracing Series
Emily Whiting receives NSF CAREER award
New Course on Geometry Processing with Prof. Ed Chien
Athina Panotopoulou Selected for EECS Rising Stars 2020
Shape Lab PhD grad, Athina Panotopoulou, was selected for the prestigious EECS Rising Stars program 2020, hosted by UC Berkeley.
Athina Panotopoulou Defends PhD Thesis
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 Awarded Honorable Mention at CHI 2020
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.
ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication to be held at BU in 2020
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 Gives Form to a New DIY Manufacturing Method
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)
Whiting featured on BU Research Magazine: The Brink
“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)