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About Przemyslaw Musialski is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA. His research interests are geometric modeling, geometry processing, computer graphics, and digital fabrication. He develops new algorithmic solutions that help designers create products directly on the computer, averting the need to manufacture preliminary prototypes. Before joining NJIT, he headed the Computational Fabrication group at the Center for Geometry and Computational Design (GCD) at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria, where he also was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry. Prior to that, he was a researcher at VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization in Vienna, a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University, a postdoctoral associate at Computer Graphics at TU Wien, and a visiting research scientist at Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He obtained the MSc degree in Media Sciences in 2007 from the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany and the PhD degree in Computer Science in 2010 from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria.

Awards

• Best Paper Honorable Mention
  Pacific Graphics 2018
• Winner of the Austrian Computer Graphics Award 2015, Category: Best Technical Solution

Recent Publications

• LayoutEnhancer: Generating Good Indoor Layouts from Imperfect Data. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.
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• Analysis of a Reduced-Order Model for the Simulation of Elastic Geometric Zigzag-Spring Meta-Materials. Computers & Graphics, 2022. [arXiv] [PDF] [RG] [Video]
• Generalized Deployable Elastic Geodesic Grids. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia/TOG, 2021. [arXiv] [PDF] [RG]

Recent Service

• Computer Graphics Forum, Associate Editor 2021-2024
• EUROGRAPHICS 2022, Technical Papers Committee
• SGP 2022: Symposium on Geometry Processing, Technical Papers Committee
• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, Technical Papers Committee
• EUROGRAPHICS 2021, Technical Papers Committee
• SGP 2021: Symposium on Geometry Processing, Technical Papers Committee
• SPM 2021: Solid and Physical Modeling, International Program Committee

Grants

• Adobe Research Gift, 2022 (big thanks to Adobe!)
• Computational Design of Geometric Materials, 03/2016 - 8/2021, (funded by WWTF)
• MAKE-IT-FAB: Modeling of Shapes for Personal Fabrication, 04/2015 - 03/2020, (funded by FWF)

Featured Videos of Recent Research

Topics My group conducts research at the intersection of applied geometry, computer graphics, and computational fabrication. We investigate problems in

• geometric modeling,
• geometry processing,
• shape modeling,
• physically-based modeling, and
• computational fabrication.

Our work encompasses computational processing of geometry, development of efficient algorithms for shape optimization, computational shape analysis and synthesis, computational design of layouts and spatial structures, and, last but not least, interaction with the user. Our research aims to provide solutions for the generation of geometric models suitable for digital manufacturing. The goal is to help humans, particularly designers, specialists, enthusiasts, and inexperienced users, to create digital content in an intuitive and automated manner.

Interested in Joining my Group? I am looking for students and postdocs interested in computer graphics in general, but specifically in geometric modeling, geometry processing, architectural geometry, fabrication, and deep learning for 3d geometry and shape processing. I look at multiple criteria, mainly mathematics skills and/or programming skills. A nice bonus is the knowledge of graphics or geometry. Also, natural curiosity and the drive to research are a strong plus. If you are interested, contact me by email! Current Students

• Kurt Leimer, PhD Student at TU Wien
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• Stefan Pillwein, PhD Student at TU Wien
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• Haotian Yin, PhD Student at NJIT
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• Shen Fan, PhD Student at NJIT
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