Chenfanfu Jiang University of California, USA
Chenfanfu Jiang is an associate professor of Mathematics at UCLA, leading diverse applied mathematics and computer science research projects at the UCLA Multi-Physics Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulations (MultiPLES) Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2015 co-advised by Demetri Terzopoulos and Joseph Teran. He has published nearly 100 top venue research papers in the realms of computer graphics, physics-based simulation, scientific computing, machine learning, and robotics. His notable contributions have been the development of innovative physics-based simulation algorithms focusing on the Particle In Cell (PIC) method, the Material Point Method (MPM) and the Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) method. He was awarded the UCLA Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award (2015), the NSF CRII award (2018), the NSF CAREER award (2020), the Sony Faculty Innovation Award (2023), as well as SCA, MIG and ICRA best paper awards.