About

I am a researcher (Chargé de Recherche) at Inria and a permanent member of the GeomeriX project-team. After earning my PhD from Zhejiang University in 2020, I spent one year each as a postdoctoral fellow at Télécom Paris and École Polytechnique before joining Inria Saclay. My research has been focusing on the numerical foundations of geometric modeling and physical simulation, covering topics such as multiscale analysis, numerical preconditioning and interactive techniques.

Research Overview

News

[2025-06] I'm deeply honored and humbled to receive the Early Career Researcher Award from SCA '25.
[2025-04] A sequel continuing the story of our MFS work was conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH '25.
[2025-03] I'll serve on the Posters jury for SIGGRAPH '25 and the Technical Papers Committee for SIGGRAPH Asia '25.
[2024-10] Gave a talk at LIX seminar reviewing my recent work on the method of Green's functions.
[2024-09] Had one paper accepted to MIG '24.
[2024-06] Our paper on fast MFS was honored as one of the five Best Paper Award winners at SIGGRAPH '24!
[2024-03] Got two papers conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH '24. Papers are coming soon!

Publications

Lightning-fast Boundary Element Method
Chen, Schaefer, Desbrun
SIGGRAPH 2025
Paper | Video | Code

TwisterForge: controllable and efficient animation of virtual
tornadoes
Chen, Gain, Chomaz, Cani
MIG 2024 (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Paper | Video | Code | Slides

Versatile Curve Design by Level Set with Quadratic Convergence
Zhang, Wu, Chen, Jin, Bao, Huang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024
Paper | Video

Lightning-fast Method of Fundamental Solutions
Chen, Schaefer, Desbrun
SIGGRAPH 2024 (Best Paper Award)
Paper | Video | Code | Slides | Poster

Biharmonic Coordinates and their Derivatives for Triangular
3D Cages
Thiery, Michel, Chen
SIGGRAPH 2024
Paper | Video | Code

A Survey on Cage-based Deformation of 3D Models
Ströter, Thiery, Hormann, Chen, Chang, Besler, Mueller-Roemer,
Boubekeur, Stork, Fellner
Eurographics 2024 State-of-the-Art Reports
Paper

Volcanic Skies: coupling explosive eruptions with atmospheric
simulation to create consistent skyscapes
Pretorius, Gain, Lastic, Cordonnier, Chen, Rohmer, Cani
Eurographics 2024
Paper

Fast GPU-Based Two-Way Continuous Collision Handling
Wang, Chen, Li, Liu, Wang, Zhou
ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2023)
Paper | Video

Somigliana Coordinates: An Elasticity-derived Approach for
Cage Deformation
Chen, de Goes, Desbrun
SIGGRAPH 2023 (conference track)
Paper | Code | Video | Slides | Poster

Robust Pointset Denoising of Piecewise-Smooth Surfaces
through Line Processes
Wei, Chen, Rohmer, Memari, Desbrun
Eurographics 2023
Paper | Slides | Code

3D Mesh Cutting for High Quality Atlas Packing
Wang, Chen, Gao, Bao, Huang
Computer Aided Geometric Design, 2022
Paper

Go Green: General Regularized Green’s Functions for Elasticity
Chen, Desbrun
SIGGRAPH 2022 (conference track)
Paper | Code | Slides | Mathematica

Multiscale Cholesky Preconditioning for Ill-conditioned Problems
Chen, Schaefer, Huang, Desbrun
SIGGRAPH 2021
Paper | Code | Slides | Note

Cosserat Rod with rh-Adaptive Discretization
Wen, Chen, Umetani, Bao, Huang
Pacific Graphics 2020
Paper | Slides | Video

Material-adapted Refinable Basis Functions for Elasticity
Simulation
Chen, Budninskiy, Owhadi, Bao, Huang, Desbrun
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2019
Paper | Code | Slides | Video