I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, where I co-lead the Brown Visual Computing group. My research sits at the intersection of computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning—especially how AI and ML tools can make the process of creating graphics content easier, more accessible, and more enjoyable. I'm particularly interested in technologies for creating, manipulating, and analyzing 3D shapes and scenes, and these days I'm excited about neurosymbolic methods for doing so (combining the best aspects of procedural models and deep neural networks). My research is funded by gifts from Adobe, Autodesk, Roblox, Pixar, and NVIDIA, as well as grants from DARPA and the National Science Foundation, including an NSF CAREER Award.

I received my PhD from Stanford University, where I worked with Pat Hanrahan in the Graphics Lab and with Noah Goodman in the Computation and Cognition Lab. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

My Erdős number is 4 (Daniel Ritchie → Niloy Mitra → Leonidas Guibas → Boris Aronov → Paul Erdős). My Bacon number is 3, though only if you count all film credits, not just cast appearances (Daniel Ritchie → John Lasseter → Tom Hanks → Kevin Bacon). This (debatably) makes my Erdős-Bacon number 7.

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October 2024
Applications are now open for the Spring 2025 edition of our exploreCSR program, Socially-Responsible Artificial Intelligence!
September 2024
Kenny, Aditya, and Norman had their paper about inferring visual programs via a sequence of edits accepted to NeurIPS!
September 2024
Aditya's paper on translating natural language requests into parametric shape editing programs will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia! This paper has it all: geometry processing, large language models, and even a computer algebra system.
August 2024
I've just created a Graphics PhD Mentoring Slack workspace. If you mentor PhD students in computer graphics and are looking for a community to share resources, discuss mentoring strategies, and ask questions, please join! Send me an email for an invite.
July 2024
I'll be at SIGGRAPH 2024. I'll be running a BoF on PhD student mentoring (submit topics for discussion here) and helping out with the thesis fast forward. Oh, and if you have a paper that features a creative use of the SIGGRAPH logo, don't forget to submit to the SIGGRAPH Logo Gallery. See you in Denver!
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