Research

Publications with links to papers, project pages, code, and press coverage when available.

2026

Adaptive Volumetric Mechanical Property Fields Invariant to Resolution

Rishit Dagli, Donglai Xiang, Vismay Modi, Xuning Yang, Gavriel State, David I.W. Levin, Maria Shugrina

ICML 2026

FreeForm: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes

Donglai Xiang*, Vismay Modi*, Rishit Dagli, Ty Trusty, Gilles Daviet, Anka He Chen, Nicholas Sharp, David I.W. Levin (*joint first authors)

CVPR 2026

VoMP: Predicting Volumetric Mechanical Property Fields

Rishit Dagli, Donglai Xiang, Vismay Modi, Charles Loop, Clement Fuji Tsang, et al., David I.W. Levin

ICLR 2026

Paper Project Code

Differentiable Variable Fonts

Kinjal Parikh, Danny M. Kaufman, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson

Eurographics 2026

Paper

2025

Neurally Integrated Finite Elements for Differentiable Elasticity on Evolving Domains

Gilles Daviet, Tianchang Shen, Nicholas Sharp, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH 2025

Paper Project

Fluid Control with Localized Spacetime Windows

Yixin Chen, David I.W. Levin, Timothy R. Langlois

arXiv 2025

Paper

Reduced-Order Modeling for Physical Simulation: From the Classical to the Neural

David I.W. Levin, Peter Yichen Chen, Eitan Grinspun

SIGGRAPH 2025 (Workshop)

Stochastic Barnes-Hut Approximation for Fast Summation on the GPU

Abhishek Madan, Nicholas Sharp, Francis Williams, Ken Museth, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH 2025

Paper Project Code

Adaptive Algebraic Reuse of Reordering in Cholesky Factorizations with Dynamic Sparsity Patterns

Behrooz Zarebavani, Danny M. Kaufman, David I.W. Levin, Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

ACM Trans. Graph. 2025

A Differentiable Material Point Method Framework for Shape Morphing

Michael Xu, Chang-Yong Song, David Levin, David Hyde

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2025

Rigid Body Adversarial Attacks

Aravind Ramakrishnan, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson

3DV 2025

Local Surface Parameterizations via Smoothed Geodesic Splines

Abhishek Madan, David I.W. Levin

ACM Trans. Graph. 2025

Paper Project

SpringTime: Learning Simulatable Models of Cloth with Spatially-varying Constitutive Properties

Guanxiong Chen, Shashwat Suri, Yuhao Wu, Yixian Cheng, Ganidhu Abeysirigoonawardena, Etienne Vouga, David I.W. Levin, Dinesh K. Pai

2025

Paper Project

2024

Fluid Control with Laplacian Eigenfunctions

Yixin Chen, David I.W. Levin, Timothy R. Langlois

SIGGRAPH 2024

Paper Project

Trading Spaces: Adaptive Subspace Time Integration for Contacting Elastodynamics

Ty Trusty, Yun Fei, David I.W. Levin, Danny M. Kaufman

ACM Trans. Graph. 2024

Simplicits: Mesh-Free, Geometry-Agnostic Elastic Simulation

Vismay Modi, Nicholas Sharp, Or Perel, Shinjiro Sueda, David I.W. Levin

ACM Trans. Graph. 2024

Paper Project

Trust-Region Eigenvalue Filtering for Projected Newton

Honglin Chen, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin, Changxi Zheng

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Stabler Neo-Hookean Simulation: Absolute Eigenvalue Filtering for Projected Newton

Honglin Chen, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, David I.W. Levin, Changxi Zheng, Alec Jacobson

SIGGRAPH 2024

Automatic Skinning using the Mixed Finite Element Method

Hongcheng Song, Dimitry Kachkovski, Shaimaa Monem, Abraham Kassauhun Negash, David I.W. Levin

arXiv 2024

Paper

2023

ViCMA: Visual Control of Multibody Animations

Doug L. James, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Paper Project

Neural Collision Fields for Triangle Primitives

Ryan S. Zesch, Vismay Modi, Shinjiro Sueda, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Project

Data Free Learning of Reduced-Order Kinematics

Nicholas Sharp, Cristian Romero, Alec Jacobson, Etienne Vouga, Paul Kry, Justin Solomon, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH 2023

Paper Project Code

2022

Fast Evaluation of Smooth Distance Constraints on Co-Dimensional Geometry

Abhishek Madan, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH 2022

Paper Project

Mixed Variational Finite Elements for Implicit Simulation of Deformables

Ty Trusty, Danny M. Kaufman, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

Paper Project

Subspace Mixed Finite Elements for Real-Time Heterogeneous Elastodynamics

Abhishek Madan, Ty Trusty, David I.W. Levin, et al.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

Project

2021

The Shape Matching Element Method: Direct Animation of Curved Surface Models

Ty Trusty, Honglin Chen, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH 2021

Project

Levitating Rigid Objects with Hidden Rods and Wires

Sarah Kushner, Risa Ulinski, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson

Eurographics 2021

Paper Project

2020

EMU: Efficient Muscle Simulation in Deformation Space

Vismay Modi, Lawson Fulton, Shinjiro Sueda, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin

Computer Graphics Forum 2020

Project

Complementary Dynamics

Jiayi Eris Zhang, Seungbae Bang, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

Project

Chordal Decomposition for Spectral Coarsening

Honglin Chen, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

Project

Fabrication-in-the-Loop Co-Optimization of Surfaces and Styli for Drawing Haptics

Michal Piovarči, Danny M. Kaufman, David I.W. Levin, Piotr Didyk

SIGGRAPH 2020

Project

2019

Latent-Space Dynamics for Reduced Deformable Simulation

Lawson Fulton, Vismay Modi, David Duvenaud, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson

Computer Graphics Forum 2019

Project

EigenFit for Consistent Elastodynamic Simulation Across Mesh Resolution

Yujie Chen, David I.W. Levin, Danny M. Kaufman, Uri Ascher, Dinesh K. Pai

Symposium on Computer Animation 2019

Paper

Mandoline - Robust Cut-Cell Generation for Arbitrary Triangle Meshes

Ming Tao, Christopher Batty, Eugene Fiume, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

Project

Volumetric Michell Trusses for Computational Design and Fabrication

Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy R. Langlois, Yijiang Huang, Christian Mueller, Wojciech Matusik, Ariel Shamir, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin

Symposium on Computational Fabrication 2019

Project

2018

Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds

G. Barill, N.G. Dickson, R. Schmidt, D.I.W. Levin, A. Jacobson

SIGGRAPH 2018

Project

Eulerian-on-Lagrangian Cloth Simulation

N.J. Weidner, K. Piddington, David I.W. Levin, Shinjiro Sueda

SIGGRAPH 2018

Project

Perception-Aware Modeling and Fabrication of Digital Drawing Tools

Michal Piovarči, David I.W. Levin, Danny M. Kaufman, Piotr Didyk

SIGGRAPH 2018

Project

Collision-Aware and Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations via Integrated Error Minimization

T. Jeruzalski, J. Kanji, A. Jacobson, D.I.W. Levin

Symposium on Computer Animation 2018

Project

2017

Dynamics-Aware Numerical Coarsening for Fabrication Design

Desai Chen, David I.W. Levin, Wojciech Matusik, Danny M. Kaufman

SIGGRAPH 2017

Project

Retrieval on Parametric Shape Collections

Adriana Schulz, Ariel Shamir, Ilya Baran, David I.W. Levin, Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn, Wojciech Matusik

ACM Trans. Graph. 2017

Project

Designing Cable-Driven Actuation Networks for Kinematic Chains and Trees

V. Megaro, E. Knoop, A. Spielberg, D. Levin, W. Matusik, M. Gross, B. Thomaszewski, M. Bächer

Symposium on Computer Animation 2017

Project

Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations using Physics-Inspired Interpolation Best Poster Award

Timothy Jeruzalski, Eugene Fiume, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin

Symposium on Computer Animation 2017 (Poster)

Paper

2016

Simit - A Language for Physical Simulation

Fredrik Kjolstad, Shoaib Kamil, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, David I.W. Levin, Shinjiro Sueda, Desai Chen, et al.

ACM Trans. Graph. 2016

Project

Acoustic Voxels - Computational Optimization of Modular Acoustic Filters

Dingzeyu Li, David I.W. Levin, Wojciech Matusik, Changxi Zheng

SIGGRAPH 2016

Project

Eulerian Solid-Fluid Coupling

Yun Teng, David I.W. Levin, Theodore Kim

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Project

An Interaction-Aware, Perceptual Model for Non-Linear Elastic Objects

Michal Piovarči, David I.W. Levin, Jason Rebello, Desai Chen, Roman Ďurikovič, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Piotr Didyk

SIGGRAPH 2016

Project

Stochastic Structural Analysis for Context-Aware Design and Fabrication

Timothy Langlois, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Dror, Wojciech Matusik, David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Project

2015

Computational Design of Metallophone Contact Sounds Featured in Wired

Gaurav Bharaj, David I.W. Levin, James Tompkin, Yun Fei, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Changxi Zheng

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

Paper Project Wired

Data-Driven Finite Elements for Geometry and Material Design

Desai Chen, David I.W. Levin, Shinjiro Sueda, Wojciech Matusik

SIGGRAPH 2015

Project

Multifarious Hierarchies of Mechanical Models for Artist Assigned Levels-of-Detail

Richard Malgat, Benjamin Gilles, David I.W. Levin, Matthieu Nesme, Francois Faure

Symposium on Computer Animation 2015

Paper

2013

Eulerian-On-Lagrangian Simulation

Ye Fan, Joshua Litven, David I.W. Levin, Dinesh K. Pai

ACM Trans. Graph. 2013

Paper Project

Spec2Fab - A Reducer-Tuner Model for Translating Specifications to 3D Prints

Desai Chen, David I.W. Levin, Piotr Didyk, Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn, Wojciech Matusik

SIGGRAPH 2013

Paper Project

2011

Eulerian Solid Simulation with Contact

David I.W. Levin, Joshua Litven, Garrett L. Jones, Shinjiro Sueda, Dinesh K. Pai

SIGGRAPH 2011

Paper Project

Large-Scale Dynamic Simulation of Highly Constrained Strands

Shinjiro Sueda, Garrett L. Jones, David I.W. Levin, Dinesh K. Pai

SIGGRAPH 2011

Paper Project

Extracting Skeletal Muscle Fiber Fields from Noisy Diffusion Tensor Data

David I.W. Levin, Benjamin Gilles, Burkhard Mädler, Dinesh K. Pai

Medical Image Analysis 2011

Paper