Arash(Ali) Mahdavi-Amiri
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I am an assistant professor in the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, the director of Master of Science in Professional Computer Science, and the director of research at MARZ. I lead and manage several industrial and research projects related to Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Computational Fabrication. My main research interest is Computer Graphics with specialty in Geometric Modeling, Digital Fabrication, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. I have received several awards including NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, J.B. Hyne Research Innovation Award, Michael A. J. Sweeney Award, and Teaching Excellence Award.
Publications
2024
- Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis STAR), 2021 paper
- RIAS: Repeated Invertible Averaging for SurfaceMultiresolution of Arbitrary Degree TVCG, 2021 paper
- Portal: Design and Fabrication of Incidence-Driven Screens Shape Modeling International (SMI, FASE),2020 paper
- Geospatail Data Organization Methods with Emphasis on Aperture 3 Hexagonal Discrete Global Grid Systems Cartographica, 2019 paper
- Geospatail Data Organization Methods with Emphasis on Aperture 3 Hexagonal Discrete Global Grid Systems US Patent, 2019 patent
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
For the complete list, please check my DBLP.
Students
Current Students
Sauradip Nag, Postdoc, co-supervised with Richard Zhang
Jiayi Liu, PhD, co-supervised with Manolis Savva
Maham Tanveer, PhD, co-supervised with Richard Zhang
Aryan Mikaeili, PhD, co-supervised with Andrea Tagliasacchi
Dingdong Yang, PhD, co-supervised with Richard Zhang
Amirhossein Alimohammadi, MSc
Alireza Heidari, MSc
Alumni
Mingrui Zhao, MSc, Next: TBD
Aryan Mikaeili, MSc, Next: PhD at SFU
Mehdi Safaee, MSC, Next: PhD at UBC
News
July 2024 | Two papers accepted to ECCV 2024, congrats to Mingrui Zhao and Adriano D'Alessandro. |
June 2024 | Dr. Daniel Cohen-Or is visiting our lab. |
June 2024 | Congrats to Mingrui Zhao for successfully defending his MSc thesis. |
May 2024 | Congrats to Mehdi Safaee and Aryan Mikaeili for successfully defending their MSc thesis. Their theses were both passed "as is", which is a great achievement. |
May 2024 | Congrats to Jiayi for successfully passing her PhD depth exam. |
Feb 2024 | Three papers were accepted to CVPR 2024. Congrats to Mehdi for his first first-authored major paper and also to Jiayi and Yizhi for their amazing work. |
Feb 2024 | I will be serving as a program committee member of SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. |
Feb 2024 | We presented three papers at ICCV 2023 in Paris. |
Sept 2024 | Our D2CSG is accepted to NeurIPS 2023. |
Sept 2024 | I will serve as the International Program Committee member of Eurographics 2023. |
Sept 2024 | I was on a with the minister of JEDI to discuss the impacts of AI on future jobs. |
Sept 2024 | I gave a talk at 3D generative models workshop in Banff. |