E-mail: edchien@bu.edu
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Boston University
Department of Computer Science
665 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 836
Boston, MA 02215
Overview
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science here at Boston University.
Research interests: geometry processing, computational knitting/fabrication, quad/hex meshing, applied optimal transport, harmonic and bounded distortion mappings
I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2015 from Rutgers University under Prof. Feng Luo, studying low-dimensional topology and geometry. More specifically, my thesis constructed square tilings of surfaces arising from discrete harmonic differential 1-forms.
Afterwards, I transitioned to applied work, working as a postdoc with Prof. Ofir Weber at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. While there, I focused on harmonic and bounded distortion methods for mapping, parametrization, and interpolation. For my second postdoc, I returned to the States for three years in the Geometric Data Processing Group at MIT, led by Prof. Justin Solomon. There I began research in hex meshing and applied optimal transport.
In recent years, I have added research directions on computational knitting and fabrication, and geometry processing of vector and point cloud data. I have thoroughly enjoyed combining my theoretical training with complex engineering problems.
News
- April 2025: We have a conference paper and a journal paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025. Further details will be posted upon final acceptance. See you in Vancouver!
- March 2025: I will be jointly giving a talk on computational knitting at the New England Symposium on Graphics 2025, along with Ben Jones (MIT). This is a one-day conference held April 26, at MIT in Boston.
- February 2025: I will be jointly giving a course on computational knitting at the SGP25 Graduate School, along with Jenny Lin (Utah) and Ben Jones (MIT). The graduate school takes place June 30 and July 1 in Bilbao, Spain. See you there!
- Oct. 2024: I will serve on the SIGGRAPH 2025 Technical Papers Committee, and attend the March in-person meetings in Vancouver. I look forward to helping bring forth the most exciting works for the graphics community!
- Oct. 2024: Matteo Couplet, a graduating Mech. Eng. PhD student from UC Louvain has joined our lab as a postdoc. He has done impressive work on formulating/solving for integrability of odeco tensor fields, a fundamental problem at the heart of quad/hex meshing. We are very excited to have him join us!