I am a third-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was fortunate enough to be advised by Prof. Jessica Hodgins. My research interests lie in the intersection of computer graphics, physical simulation, computational design and machine learning.
This work presents a differentiable cloth simulator that extends a state-of-the-art cloth simulator based on Projective Dynamics (PD) and with dry frictional contact. A novel back-propagation technique is proposed to accelerate gradient computation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the simulator through inverse tasks including system identification, trajectory optimization for assisted dressing, closed-loop control, inverse design.
