About
My research connects geometry and computation through variational principles and structure-preserving discretization. I study how geometric constraints and topology shape models and dynamics, and I design discretizations that preserve the resulting structure by construction. This yields mathematically grounded methods that remain stable in practice, with applications in geometry processing, simulation, and robotics.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, in the Center for Visual Computing, Computer Science and Engineering, working with Prof. Albert Chern.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) in the Geometric Computing Laboratory with Prof. Mark Pauly, and I contributed as an investigator to SFB/TRR 109 “Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics” (German Research Foundation). I received my PhD in 2024 from the Institute of Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin, supervised by Prof. Ulrich Pinkall and Prof. Peter Schröder, and was a member of the Berlin Mathematical School. In 2023, I was a visiting researcher at Caltech.
News
- I will serve on the Technical Papers Commiteefor ACM Siggraph Asia 2026
- I will serve on the Technical Papers Commitee for ACM Siggraph 2026
- Prof. Daniele Panozzo invited me to give a talk about Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation in the Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing seminar at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York City, NY, USA (Dec 2025)
- Prof. L. Mahadevan FRS invited me to give a talk about Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation at the Soft Math Lab at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (Oct 2025)
- Prof. Daniel Goldman invited me to give an online talk about Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion at the Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA (Oct 2025)
- Prof. Justin Solomon invited me to give a talk about Geometric Methods for Physics Simulation at the Graphics/Vision Seminar at MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA (Oct 2025)
- Prof. Eitan Grinspun invited me to give a talk about Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (Oct 2025)
- Prof. Rakshak Adhikari invited me to give an online talk titled Force-Free Fields are Conformally Geodesic at the Troy University, Troy, AL, USA (Oct 2025)
- I received the SAP Young Researcher Grant to participate the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany (October 2025)
- I gave a talk about Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion at the Geometry Workshop in Obergurgl 2025, Obergurgl, Austria (Oct 2025)
- I gave a talk about Inverse and Optimal Geometric Locomotion at the Quentin Becker I lead a project on How to fix a broken snake robot? for the Summer Geometry Initiative 2025 at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (July 2025)
- Prof. Niloy Mitra invited me to give an online talk about Inverse Problems in Geometric Locomotion in his reading group at University College London, UK (June 2025)
- Our paper Inverse Geometric Locomotion was accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver (May 2025)
- I will serve as Technical Papers Conflict of Interest Coordinator for ACM Siggraph Asia 2025
- Prof. Renzo Ricca invited me to talk about Conformal Geometry in Magnetic Relaxation in the Geotop-A web-seminar series (March 2025)
- I gave an online talk about Conformal Geometry in ideal MHD in the Applied Mathematics Seminar at Durham University, UK (March 2025)
- Christopher Berg Smiet invited me to give an online talk titled Force-Free Fields are Conformally Geodesic in the SPECtaculars' meeting (December 2024)
- Prof. Christopher Wojtan invited me to talk about Conformal Geodesibility and Ideal MHD in the Wojtan group seminar at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria (November 2024)
- Prof. Renzo Ricca invited me to give a talk about Geometry of Plasma Knots in the Minisymposium on Topological Fluid Dynamics as part of the EQUADIFF 2024 conference at Karlstad University, Sweden (June 2024)
- I've successfully defended my thesis titled Conformal geometry in ideal magnetohydrodynamics and obtained my PhD with distinction (summa cum laude) (May 2024)
- Sean Even presented a poster on our joint research on Optimizing Robotic Snake Gait with Machine Learning and Shape Change Algorithms at the 2024 Midwest Robotics Workshop (MWRW) (Apr 2024)
- I was invited by Freitagsrunde to give an introductory workshop on Houdini for Computer Graphics at the TU Berlin, Fak IV (Apr 2024)
- Our paper Going with the Flow was accepted by ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2024, Denver, CO, USA (March 2024)
- I was invited by Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj to give a talk about Geometric Approaches to Fluid Simulations in the ODEN Institute seminar at the ODEN Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (Feb 2024)
- I was invited by Prof. Qixing Huang for a research visit at the University of Texas at Austin (Feb 2024)
- I was invited by Prof. Martin Rumpf to give a talk about Shifting Shapes with Shape Shifts in the Colloquium of the SFB 1060 at the University of Bonn (Nov 2023)
- I was invited by Prof. Mark Pauly to give a talk on Variational Energies for Curves with Variable Thickness in the Geometric Computing Laboratory at the EPFL (Nov 2023)
- I was invited by Prof. Yasemin Özkan-Aydin to give an online talk on Geometric Mechanics for Physics Simulation in the MiNiRoLab at the University of Notre Dame (Oct 2023)
- Andrei Mihai wrote an article for Spectrum.de SciLogs featuring my work on Motion from Shape Change (Oct 2023)
- I was interviewed by Rahul Rao who wrote an article about our paper Motion from Shape Change for IEEE Spectrum (Sep 2023)
- I presented our paper Motion from Shape Change at the Geometry Workshop Obergurgl 2023 (Aug 2023)
- I presented our paper Motion from Shape Change at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 (Aug 2023)
- Our paper Motion from Shape Change was featured by Caltech News (Aug 2023)
- I presented a poster about our paper Motion from Shape Change as part of Caltech's Women in STEM program (Aug 2023)
- Our paper Plasma Knots was accepted for publication in Physics Letters A(June 2023)
- I present a poster about our paper Motion from Shape Change at the CMS + IST Meeting of the Minds (MotM) at Caltech (May 2023)
- I was selected to participate in the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (October 2023)
- I was invited by Prof. Albert Chern to give a talk on the Shifting Shapes with Shape Shifts in the Pixel Cafe in the CSE department at UC San Diego (April 2023)
- I presented our work on Filament Based Plasma in the CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar at Caltech
- I was invited by Prof. Paul M. Bellan to give a talk on A Geometric Approach to Magnetic Relaxation in the Bellan Plasma Group Seminar at Caltech
- I am currently a visiting graduate researcher at Caltech supervised by Prof. Peter Schröder
- Our paper Filament Based Plasma is featured in the 2023 Calendar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- I presented our paper Filament Based Plasma at the Discrete Geometric Structures workshop, Vienna
- I presented our paper Filament Based Plasma at SIGGRAPH 2022, Vancouver
- I was invited by Prof. Albert Chern to give a talk on the Lagrangian Modeling and Geometric Optimization in Plasma Physics at UC San Diego
- I was invited by Prof. Olga Diamani to give a talk on the Riemannian Geometry in Plasma Physics in the geometry seminar at TU Graz
- Our paper Filament Based Plasma was accepted by ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2022, Vancouver
