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The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia 2025), to be held this year from December 15-18 in Hong Kong, is widely considered a premier event in computer graphics, interactive techniques, AI, XR, animation, and gaming. In a testament to Brown Visual Computing’s almost sixty-year tradition of research excellence and leadership, members of the Brown CS community co-authored five of the conference’s accepted papers.

For the following, Brown CS faculty, students, and alums are shown in bold:
 

“Design for Descent: What Makes a Shape Grammar Easy to Optimize?”

Milin Kodnongbua (University of Washington)
Zihan Jack Zhang (previously at University of Washington, now a Brown CS PhD student)
Nicholas Sharp (NVIDIA)
Adriana Schulz (Brown CS faculty member)

“MiGumi: Making Tightly Coupled Integral Joints Millable”

Aditya Ganeshan (Brown CS PhD student) 
Kurt Fleischer (Brown CS alum, now at Pixar Animation Studios)
Wenzel Jakob (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Ariel Shamir (Reichman University)
Daniel Ritchie (Brown CS faculty member)
Takeo Igarashi (Brown CS alum, now at University of Tokyo)
Maria Larsson (University of Tokyo)
 

“PartComposer: Learning and Composing Part-Level Concepts from Single-Image Examples”

Junyu Liu (Brown CS alum, now at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
R. Kenny Jones (Brown CS PhD alum, now at Stanford University)
Daniel Ritchie (Brown CS faculty member)

“PoissonNet: A Local-Global Approach for Learning on Surfaces”

Arman Maesumi (Brown CS PhD student)
Tanish Makadia (Brown CS PhD student)
Thibault Groueix (Adobe Research)
Vladimir G. Kim (Adobe Research)
Daniel Ritchie (Brown CS faculty member)
Noam Aigerman (University of Montreal)
 

“Procedural Scene Programs for Open-Universe Scene Generation: LLM-Free Error Correction via Program Search”

Maxim Gumin (Brown CS PhD student)
Do Heon Han (Brown CS student)
Seung Jean Yoo (Brown CS student)
Aditya Ganeshan (Brown CS PhD student)
R. Kenny Jones (Brown CS PhD alum, now at Stanford University)
Kailiang Fu (Brown CS alum, now at Uber)
Rio Aguina-Kang (University of California, San Diego)
Stewart Morris (Brown CS alum, now at Field School of Charlotesville)
Daniel Ritchie (Brown CS faculty member)

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