Research Scientist Google Erika-Mann-Straße 33, 80636 München Email: hongyixu@google.com

Biography

I am currently a Research Scientist at Google AI. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Disney Research Zurich, at the Computational Design and Manufacturing group led by Moritz Bächer. I graduated with the Ph.D. degree at Computer Science Department of University of Southern California in August 2017, under supervision of Prof. Jernej Barbič . Before that, I graduated with the B. Eng degree from Computer Science and Technology Department in Zhejiang University, China in 2012.

My research interests are in computer graphics, physically based animation, computational robotics, contact and interactive physics.

Education

2012.08-2017.08

• Computer Science, University of Southern California

2008.09-2012.06

• Major: Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University

• Minor: Advanced Class of Engineering Education, Chu KoChen Honors College

Publications

• Hongyi Xu*, Espen Knoop*, Stelian Coros, Moritz Bächer: Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters, ACM Transactions on Graphics 37 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2018), 2018.

• Dimitar Dinev, Thabo Beeler, Derek Bradley, Moritz Bächer, Hongyi Xu, Ladislav Kavan: User-Guided Lip Correction for Facial Performance Capture, Symposium on Computer Animation, 2018.

• Hongyi Xu: Interactive Material and Damping Design, PhD thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, August 2017.

• Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: Example-based Damping Design, ACM Transactions on Graphics 36(4) (SIGGRAPH 2017), Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: 6-DoF Haptic Rendering using Continuous Collision Detection Between Points and Signed Distance Fields, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2016.

• Yijing Li, Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: Enriching Triangle Mesh Animations With Physically Based Simulation, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2016.

• Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: Pose-Space Subspace Dynamics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 35(4) (SIGGRAPH 2016), Anaheim, CA, USA.

• Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: Adaptive 6-DoF Haptic Contact Stiffness Using the Gauss Map, IEEE Transactions on Haptics,9(3),2016.

• Hongyi Xu, Fun Shing Sin, Yufeng Zhu, Jernej Barbič: Nonlinear Material Design using Principal Stretches, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2015), 34(4), 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Hongyi Xu, Yijing Li, Yong Chen, Jernej Barbič: Interactive Material Design Using Model Reduction, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 34(2), 2015 (Presented in SIGGRAPH 2015)

• Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: Continuous Collision Detection Between Points and Signed Distance Field ,Workshop on Virtual Reality Simulation and Physical Simulation, 2014

• Hongyi Xu, Jernej Barbič: Signed Distance Fields for Polygon Soup Meshes, Graphics Interface 2014, Montreal, Canada

• Hongyi Xu*, Yili Zhao*, Jernej Barbič: Implicit Multibody Penalty-based Distributed Contact, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(9), 2014