Surface Power Diagrams for Knit Singularity Placement
Rahul Mitra & Matteo Couplet (joint first authors), Ruichen Liu, Jonathan Ng, Ruza Markov, Will Samosir, Megan Hofmann, Edward Chien
Presented: July 2026, SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles (presentation by Rahul Mitra)
Synchronizing Fields with Singularities
Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj, Matteo Couplet, Edward Chien, David Palmer
Presented: July 2026, SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles (presentation by David Palmer)
Surface Quadrilateral Meshing from Integrable Odeco Fields
Matteo Couplet, Alexandre Chemin, David Bommes, Edward Chien
Presented: July 2026, SGP 2026, Bern, Switzerland (presentation by Matteo Couplet)
Strain-Field Based Segmentation for Fabric Formwork
Abhinit Sati, Tiffany Bao, Jeff Tedi, Edward Chien, Emily Whiting
Presented: May 2026, Eurographics 2026, Aachen, Germany (presentation by Abhinit Sati)
Faraday Cage Estimation of Normals for Point Clouds and Ribbon Sketches
Daniel Scrivener, Daniel Cui, Ellis Coldren, S. Mazdak Abulnaga, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Edward Chien
Presented: August 2025, SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver (presentation by Daniel Scrivener)
Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award
Curl Quantization for Automatic Placement of Knit Singularities
Rahul Mitra, Matteo Couplet, Tongtong Wang, Megan Hofmann, Kui Wu, Edward Chien
Presented: August 2025, SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver (presentation by Matteo Couplet)
Computational Knitting, Summer School Course
Jenny Han Lin, Ben Jones, Edward Chien
Presented: June 2025, SGP Summer School 2025, Boston
Partially Observed Trajectory Inference using Optimal Transport and a Dynamics Prior
Anming Gu, Kristjan Greenewald, Edward Chien
To be presented: April 2025, ICLR 2025, Singapore EXPO, Singapore
Winding Number Features for Vector Sketch Colorization
Daniel Scrivener, Ellis Coldren, Edward Chien
Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 43, Issue 5 (SGP 2024)
Presented: June 2024, SGP 2024, MIT (presentation by Daniel Scrivener)
Singular Foliations for Knit Graph Design
Rahul Mitra, Erick Jimenez Berumen, Megan Hofmann, Edward Chien
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. TBD, No. TBD (SIGGRAPH 2024)
Presented: July 2024, SIGGRAPH 2024, Colorado Convention Center (presentation by Rahul Mitra)
Singularity-Free Frame Fields for Line Drawing Vectorization
Olga Gutan*, Shreya Hegde*, Erick Jimenez Berumen, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Edward Chien (*joint first authors)
Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 42, Issue 5 (SGP 2023)
Presented: July 2023, SGP 2023, University of Genoa (presentation by Olga Gutan & Shreya Hegde)
Awarded "Honorable Mention" for Best Paper Award
Helix-Free Stripes for Knit Graph Design
Rahul Mitra, Liane Makatura, Emily Whiting, Edward Chien
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. TBD, No. TBD (SIGGRAPH 2023)
To Be Presented: August 2023, SIGGRAPH 2023, Los Angeles Convention Center (presentation by Rahul Mitra)
k-Mixup Regularization for Deep Learning via Optimal Transport
Kristjan Greenewald, Anming Gu, Mikhail Yurochkin, Justin Solomon, Edward Chien
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Sept. 2023
Keypoint-Driven Line Drawing Vectorization via PolyVector Flow
Ivan Puhachov, William Neveu, Edward Chien, Mikhail Bessmeltsev
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 40, No. 6 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)
Presented: December 2021, SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, Tokyo International Forum (presentation by Ivan Puhachov)
Octahedral Frames for Feature-Aligned Cross Fields
Paul Zhang, Edward Chien, Josh Vekhter, David Bommes, Etienne Vouga, Justin Solomon
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 39, No. 4 (SIGGRAPH 2020)
Presented: August 2020, SIGGRAPH 2020, Virtual (presentation by Paul Zhang)
Alleviating Label Switching with Optimal Transport
Pierre Monteiller, Sebastian Claici, Edward Chien, Farzaneh Mirzazadeh, Justin Solomon, Mikhail Yurochkin
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019)
Presented: December 2019, NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, Canada
Hierarchical Optimal Transport for Document Representation
Mikhail Yurochkin, Sebastian Claici, Edward Chien, Farzaneh Mirzazadeh, Justin Solomon
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019)
Presented: December 2019, NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, Canada
A Subspace Method for Fast Locally Injective Harmonic Mapping
Eden Fedida Hefetz, Edward Chien, Ofir Weber
Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 38, No. 2 (Eurographics 2019)
Presented: May 2019, Eurographics 2019, Porto Antico Conference Center, Genoa, Italy
Dynamic Optimal Transport On Discrete Surfaces
Hugo Lavenant, Sebastian Claici, Edward Chien, Justin Solomon
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 37, No. 6 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2018)
Presented: December 2018, SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, Tokyo International Forum (presentation by Hugo Lavenant)
Stochastic Wasserstein Barycenters
Sebastian Claici, Edward Chien, Justin Solomon
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research Vol. 80 (ICML 2018)
Presented: July 2018, ICML 2018, Stockholmsmässan (presentation by Sebastian Claici)
Singularity Constrained Octahedral Fields for Hexahedral Meshing
Heng Liu, Paul Zhang, Edward Chien, Justin Solomon, David Bommes
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 37, No. 4 (SIGGRAPH 2018)
Presented: August 2018, SIGGRAPH 2018, Vancouver Convention Centre (presentation by Heng Liu)
Fast Planar Harmonic Deformations with Alternating Tangential Projections
Eden Fedida Hefetz, Edward Chien, Ofir Weber
Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 36, Issue 5 (SGP 2017)
Presented: July 2017, SGP 2017, University College London (presentation by Eden Fedida Hefetz)
Harmonic Global Parametrization with Rational Holonomy
Alon Bright & Edward Chien (joint first authors), Ofir Weber
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 36, No. 4 (SIGGRAPH 2017)
Presented: August 2017, SIGGRAPH 2017, Los Angeles Convention Center
Bounded Distortion Parametrization in the Space of Metrics
Edward Chien, Zohar Levi, Ofir Weber
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 35, No. 6 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2016)
Presented: December 2016, SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, The Venetian Macao Convention Center
Bounded Distortion Harmonic Shape Interpolation
Edward Chien, Renjie Chen, Ofir Weber
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 35, No. 4 (SIGGRAPH 2016)
Presented: July 2016, SIGGRAPH 2016, Anaheim Convention Center
Presented: June 2016, Ben-Chen Lab Seminar, Technion
Code (courtesy of Renjie Chen)
Square Tilings of Surfaces from Discrete Harmonic 1-Chains
Edward Chien, under supervision of Feng Luo
PhD Thesis (October 2015)
Mathematics Department, Rutgers University
Presented: May 2015, Temple Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology
Presented: Feb. 2015, Geometry Seminar, Purdue University
Presented: Dec. 2014, Geometry and Topology Seminar, Temple University
Presented: Nov. 2014, Geometry and Topology Seminar, Rutgers University
