Minchen Li Assistant Professor CMU Scholars Page ORCiD Office 228 Smith Hall Email minchenl@andrew.cmu.edu Department Computer Science Department Administrative Support Person Christina Contreras Research Interests Graphics Machine Learning Robotics Scientific Computing Advisees Guying Lin Juntian Zheng CSD Courses Taught 15369 - Fall, 2025 15669 - Fall, 2025 15763 - Spring, 2025 15362 - Fall, 2024 15662 - Fall, 2024 Biography Minchen is an assistant professor at CMU CSD and formerly an assistant adjunct professor at UCLA's Department of Mathematics. He completed his Ph.D. at the SIG Center for Computer Graphics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained a postdoctoral researcher. His Ph.D. dissertation featured the Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) method, a breakthrough in frictional contact simulation in nonlinear solid dynamics. Minchen's research has won multiple awards, including the 2021 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. He has completed four internships at Adobe Research and earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on advancing physical simulation in visual computing, manufacturing, and robotics, aiming for robustness, efficiency, accuracy, and versatility through methods that combine numerical analysis, high-performance computing, and machine learning. The efficacy of solid and fluid simulation methods in the evolving landscape of visual computing, manufacturing, and robotics industries is fundamentally determined by robustness, efficiency, accuracy, and versatility. However, achieving a harmonious balance among these crucial characteristics remains an open challenge. Minchen's research is committed to advancing the frontiers of physical simulation by striving for unprecedented levels of performance in all these areas, leveraging a comprehensive approach that combines numerical analysis, high-performance computing, and machine learning. Publications Conference A Dynamic Duo of Finite Elements and Material Points 2024 • PROCEEDINGS OF SIGGRAPH 2024 CONFERENCE PAPERS Li X, Li M, Han X, Wang H, Yang Y, Jiang C Journal Article Augmented Incremental Potential Contact for Sticky Interactions 2024 • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics • 30(8):5596-5608 Fang Y, Li M, Cao Y, Li X, Wolper J, Yang Y, Jiang C Journal Article Barrier-Augmented Lagrangian for GPU-based Elastodynamic Contact 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(6): Guo D, Li M, Yang Y, Li S, Wang G Journal Article Mapped material point method for large deformation problems with sharp gradients and its application to soil-structure interactions 2024 • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics • 48(9):2334-2355 Zhao Y, Li M, Jiang C, Choo J Conference VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality 2024 • PROCEEDINGS OF SIGGRAPH 2024 CONFERENCE PAPERS Jiang Y, Yu C, Xie T, Li X, Feng Y, Wang H, Li M, Lau H, Gao F, Yang Y, Jiang C
Conference A Dynamic Duo of Finite Elements and Material Points 2024 • PROCEEDINGS OF SIGGRAPH 2024 CONFERENCE PAPERS Li X, Li M, Han X, Wang H, Yang Y, Jiang C
Journal Article Augmented Incremental Potential Contact for Sticky Interactions 2024 • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics • 30(8):5596-5608 Fang Y, Li M, Cao Y, Li X, Wolper J, Yang Y, Jiang C
Journal Article Barrier-Augmented Lagrangian for GPU-based Elastodynamic Contact 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(6): Guo D, Li M, Yang Y, Li S, Wang G
Journal Article Mapped material point method for large deformation problems with sharp gradients and its application to soil-structure interactions 2024 • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics • 48(9):2334-2355 Zhao Y, Li M, Jiang C, Choo J
Conference VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality 2024 • PROCEEDINGS OF SIGGRAPH 2024 CONFERENCE PAPERS Jiang Y, Yu C, Xie T, Li X, Feng Y, Wang H, Li M, Lau H, Gao F, Yang Y, Jiang C
