Yue Li

李悦

Final-year Doctoral Student at ETH Zürich

CV

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

ETH Zürich
2020 - 2025 (expected)

M.S.E in Computer Graphics and Game Technology

University of Pennsylvania
2018 - 2019

B.Eng in Software Engineering

Beijing University of Technology
2014 - 2018

About Myself

I am a final-year doctoral student in the Computational Robotics Lab(CRL) at ETH Zürich, supervised by Prof. Stelian Coros and Dr. Bernhard Thomaszewski. I obtained my master's degree in Computer Graphics (CGGT) from University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang. My interests lie in physics-based simulation, inverse design and neural representations.

All projects during my Ph.D. are open-sourced on my GitHub page. I also maintain a code base, which I named WuKong, a figure in Chinese folklore. You'll find my implementation for a few things that come in handy for simulation in graphics.

Publications

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Robust and Artefact-Free Deformable Contact with Smooth Surface Representations
Yinwei Du, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation 2024) [PDF] [video] [code]

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Differentiable Geodesic Distance for Intrinsic Minimization on Triangle Meshes
Yue Li, Logan Numerow, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024)
[PDF] [video] [code]

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Differentiable Voronoi Diagrams for Simulation of Cell-Based Mechanical Systems
Logan Numerow, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024)
[PDF] [video] [code]

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Neural Metamaterial Networks for Nonlinear Material Design
Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
[PDF] [video] [code]

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Programmable Digital Weaves
Yue Li, Juan Montes, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2022)
[PDF] [video] [code]

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NTopo: Mesh-free Topology Optimization using Implicit Neural Representations
Jonas Zehnder, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. [PDF] [video] [code]

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Deep Physics-aware Inference of Cloth Deformation for Monocular Human Performance Capture
Yue Li, Marc Habermann, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Thabo Beeler, Christian Theobalt, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2021 [PDF] [Project] [video]

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Lagrangian-Eulerian Multi-Density Topology Optimization with the Material Point Method
Yue Li*, Xuan Li*, Minchen Li*, Yinxin Zhu, Bo Zhu, Chenfanfu Jiang, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (IJNME), 2021. (* Equal Contribution)
[PDF] [code]

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Expressive facial style transfer for personalized memes mimic , Yanlong Tang, Xiaoguang Han, Yue Li, Liqian Ma, Ruofeng Tong,
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics, 2019.
[PDF]

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Deep Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Deformable Objects
Yue Li, Pablo Wiedemann , Kenny Mitchell ,
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2019.
[PDF]

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Feature-preserving detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single image
Yue Li, Liqian Ma, Haoqiang Fan, Kenny Mitchell , Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2018. [PDF] (Best Paper Award)

Short Papers, Theses, etc.

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Graph Neural Networks with Directional Encodings for Anisotropic Elasticity
Fabian Haller, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, 2023

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FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile
Llogari Casas , Yue Li, Kenny Mitchell . SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Technical Communications.

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Master Thesis: Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Topology Optimization
Yue Li.

Research Experiences

Research Scientist Intern

Sep. 2024 ~ Jan. 2025
image Meta Reality Lab, Sausalito, U.S.A.

Computer Vision/Machine Learning Intern

May. 2024 ~ Sep. 2024
image Zurich Vision Lab, Zürich, Switerland

Visiting Scholar

Mar. 2020 ~ Aug. 2020
imageMPI Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

Research Intern

May 2019 ~ Aug. 2019
imageDisney Research, Glendale, U.S.A.

Research Intern

Jun. 2018 ~ Sep. 2018
imageEdinburgh Napier University, remote

Research Intern

Jul. 2017 ~ May. 2018
image Megvii Research (Face++), Beijing, China

Academics Service

Teaching Assistant

Sep. 2020 ~ Present
ETH Zürich
Visual Computing (2020-2021), Computational Models of Motion (2021-2022), Physically-Based Simulation in Computer Graphics(2022-2023), Introduction to Machine Learning (2024)

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2019 ~ Feb. 2020
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
CIS563 Physics-based Animation (2019)

Reviewer

ACM SIGGRAPH (2023-2024), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2023-2024), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2024), Eurographics (2024), Symposium on Computational Fabrication (2021)