{"id":5,"date":"2021-07-22T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/graphics\/computer-graphics-lab\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:57:39","slug":"computer-graphics-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Graphics &#038; HCI Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Boston University Computer Graphics &amp; HCI Lab! We are a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/graphics\/people\/\">team<\/a> of computer scientists, makers, and engineers exploring challenges within the domains of computer graphics, computational fabrication, computational geometry, and human-computer interaction.<\/p>\n<h3>News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 2025<\/strong>: <span>Chang Xiao joined as new faculty!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>September 2025<\/strong>: Ruichen Liu joined as a new PhD student!<\/li>\n<li><strong>August 2025<\/strong>: We presented the journal paper <a href=\"https:\/\/scrivener.studio\/faraday\">Faraday Cage Estimation of Normals for Point Clouds and Ribbon Sketches<\/a> at SIGGRAPH 2025 which was awarded an Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.<\/li>\n<li><strong>August 2025<\/strong>: We presented the conference paper <a href=\"https:\/\/rahulmitra.xyz\/projects\/curl_quantization\/\">Curl Quantization for Automatic Placement of Knit Singularities<\/a> at SIGGRAPH 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>July 2025<\/strong>: Zezhou Sun&#8217;s PhD defense. Congratulations Dr. Sun!<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 2025<\/strong>: Emily Whiting received an unrestricted academic gift from Reality Labs Research, a division of Meta.<\/li>\n<li><span><strong>June 2025<\/strong>: Edward Chien gave an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/school.geometryprocessing.org\/summerschool-2025\/index.html#course3\">SGP25 Summer School talk on computational knitting<\/a><span>, along with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bentodjones.com\/\">Ben Jones<\/a><span> (MIT) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jlin98.github.io\/\">Jenny Lin<\/a><span> (Utah).<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>March 2025<\/strong>: Xingjian Han&#8217;s PhD defense. Congratulations Dr. Han!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container group-photos autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-136\" data-slideshow-name=\"group-photos\" data-slideshow-delay=\"15000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-136\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2025\/09\/BUGraphics_SIGGRAPH2025-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">SIGGRAPH 2025<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Attending SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, BC, Canada<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250717_172656816-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Formlabs Visit 2025<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Group tour of Formlabs office in Somerville, MA.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2025\/04\/20241213_130843-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Holiday Outing 2024<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Group outing to Brighton Bowl, December 2024<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2024\/07\/IMG_5163-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">SGP 2024<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Attending SGP in Boston, MA<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_4\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231215_192430714-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Holiday Outing 2023<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Muse Paint Bar<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_5\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_20221221_184404798_HDR-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Holiday Dinner 2022<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Group dinner at SweetcheeksQ, December 2022<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_6\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2021\/12\/2021_12_17_BUClimbing_2400-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"Group climbing outing\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Holiday Outing 2021<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Group outing to Rock Spot Climbing, December 2021<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-136_7\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/graphics\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_4825-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"BU Graphics Group at SIGGRAPH\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">SIGGRAPH 2019<\/p><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Attending SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, CA<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-136\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-6\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>6<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-7\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>7<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-8\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>8<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Boston University Computer Graphics &amp; HCI Lab! We are a team of computer scientists, makers, and engineers exploring challenges within the domains of computer graphics, computational fabrication, computational geometry, and human-computer interaction. News September 2025: Chang Xiao joined as new faculty! September 2025: Ruichen Liu joined as a new PhD student! 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