Danny Kaufman

Principal Research Scientist

Seattle

Danny’s research focuses on developing computational models and tools for animation, design, fabrication, geometry processing and physical simulation. His postdoctoral work was with Eitan Grinspun (C2G2) while his PhD was with Dinesh Pai (SSL).

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Publications

Affine Body Dynamics: Fast, Stable, and Intersection-free Simulation of Stiff Materials

Lan, L., Kaufman, D., Li, M., Jiang, C., Yang, Y. (Aug. 1, 2022)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022)

Fine Wrinkling on Coarsely Meshed Thin Shells

Chen, Z., Chen, H., Kaufman, D., Skouras, M., Vouga, E. (Aug. 1, 2022)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022)

Intersection-free Rigid Body Dynamics

Ferguson, Z., Li, M., Schneider, T., Gil-Ureta, F., Langlois, T., Jiang, C., Zorin, D., Kaufman, D., Panozzo, D. (Aug. 1, 2021)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021)

Medial IPC: Accelerated Incremental Potential Contact With Medial Elastics

Lan, L., Yang, Y., Kaufman, D., Yao, J., Li, M., Jiang, C. (Aug. 1, 2021)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021)

Guaranteed Globally Injective 3D Deformation Processing

Fang, Y., Li, M., Jiang, C., Kaufman, D. (Aug. 1, 2021)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021)

Codimensional Incremental Potential Contact

Li, M., Kaufman, D., Jiang, C. (Aug. 1, 2021)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021)

Globally Injective Geometry Optimization with Non‐Injective Steps

Overby, M., Kaufman, D., Narain, R. (Aug. 1, 2021)

Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021

Optimizing Global Injectivity for Constrained Parameterization

Du, X., Kaufman, D., Zhou, Q., Kovalsky, S., Yan, Y., Aigerman, N., Ju, T. (Aug. 1, 2021)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021)

Lifting Simplices to Find Injectivity

Du, X., Aigerman, N., Zhou, Q., Kovalsky, S., Yan, Y., Kaufman, D., Ju, T. (Aug. 25, 2020)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)

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

Piovarč, M., Kaufman, D., Levin, D., Didyk, P. (Aug. 25, 2020)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)

NASOQ: Numerically Accurate Sparsity-Oriented QP Solver

Cheshmi, K., Kaufman, D., Kamil, S., Dehnavi, M. (Aug. 25, 2020)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)

Incremental Potential Contact: Intersection- and Inversion-free Large Deformation Dynamics

Li, M., Ferguson, Z., Schneide, T., Langlois, T., Zorin, D., Panozzo, D., Jiang, C., Kaufman, D. (Aug. 25, 2020)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)

Hierarchical Optimization Time Integration for CFL-Rate MPM Stepping

Wang, X., Li, M., Fang, Y., Zhang, X., Gao, M., Tang, M., Kaufman, D., Jiang, C. (Apr. 1, 2020)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (presentation at SIGGRAPH 2020)

Neural Re-Simulation for Generating Bounces in Single Images

Innamorati, C., Russell, B., Kaufman, D., Mitra, N. (Oct. 28, 2019)

ICCV 2019

MagicalHands: Mid-Air Hand Gestures for Animating in VR

Arora, R., Habib, R., Kaufman, D., Li, W., Singh, K. (Oct. 20, 2019)

UIST 2019

Decomposed Optimization Time Integrator for Large-Step Elastodynamics

Li, M., Gao, M., Langlois, T., Jiang, C., Kaufman, D. (Aug. 1, 2019)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2019)

REDMAX: Efficient and Flexible Approach for Articulated Dynamics

Wang, Y., Weidner, N., Baxter, M., Hwang, Y., Kaufman, D., Sueda, S. (Aug. 1, 2019)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2019)

EigenFit for Consistent Elastodynamic Simulation Across Mesh Resolution

Chen, Y., Levin, D., Kaufman, D., Ascher, U., Pai, D. (Jul. 26, 2019)

SCA 2019

Bounce and Learn: Modeling Scene Dynamics with Real-World Bounces

Purushwalkam, S., Gupta, A., Kaufman, D., Russell, B. (May. 6, 2019)

ICLR 2019

OptCuts: Joint Optimization of Surface Cuts and Parameterization

Li, M., Kaufman, D., Kim, V., Solomon, J., Sheffer, A. (Nov. 15, 2018)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2018)

Perception-Aware Modeling and Fabrication of Digital Drawing Tools

Piovarci, M., Levin, D., Kaufman, D., Didyk, P. (Aug. 1, 2018)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2018)

Blended Cured Quasi-Newton for Distortion Optimization

Zhu, Y., Bridson, R., Kaufman, D. (Aug. 1, 2018)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2018)

Planar Interpolation with Extreme Deformation, Topology Change and Dynamics

Zhu, Y., Popović, J., Bridson, R., Kaufman, D. (Nov. 27, 2017)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2017)

Interactive Design and Stability Analysis of Decorative Joinery for Furniture

Yao, J., Kaufman, D., Gingold, Y., Agrawala, M. (Aug. 1, 2017)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2017)

All’s Well That Ends Well: Guaranteed Resolution of Simultaneous Rigid-Body Impact

Vouga, E., Smith, B., Kaufman, D., Tamstorf, R., Grinspun, E. (Aug. 1, 2017)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2017)

Dynamics-Aware Numerical Coarsening For Fabrication Design

Chen, D., Levin, D., Matusik, W., Kaufman, D. (Aug. 1, 2017)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2017)

Aesthetic Electronics: Designing, Sketching, and Fabricating Circuits through Digital Exploration

Lo, J., Torres, C., Yang, I., O'Leary, J., Kaufman, D., Li, W., Dontcheva, M., Paulos, E. (Oct. 17, 2016)

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

Physics-driven Pattern Adjustment for Direct 3D Garment Editing

Bartle, A., Sheffer, A., Kim, V., Kaufman, D., Vining, N., Berthouzoz, F. (Aug. 1, 2016)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2016)

Artist-Directed Dynamics for 2D Animation

Bai, Y., Kaufman, D., Liu, C., Popović, J. (Aug. 1, 2016)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2016)

Simit: a Language for Physical Simulation

Kjølstad, F., Kamil, S., Ragan-Kelley, J., Levin, D., Sueda, S., Chen, D., Vouga, E., Kaufman, D., Kanwar, G., Matusik, W., Amarasinghe, S. (May. 1, 2016)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2016)

Adaptive Nonlinearity for Collisions in Complex Rod Assemblies

Kaufman, D., Tamstorf, R., Smith, B., Aubry, J., Grinspun, E. (Aug. 1, 2014)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2014)

Parsing Sewing Patterns into 3D Garments

Berthouzoz, F., Garg, A., Kaufman, D., Grinspun, E., Agrawala, M. (Aug. 1, 2013)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2013)

Geometric Numerical Integration of Inequality Constrained Nonsmooth Hamiltonian Systems

Kaufman, D., Pai, D. (Oct. 9, 2012)

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 34(5), 2012

Reflections on Simultaneous Impact

Smith, B., Kaufman, D., Vouga, E., Tamstorf, R., Grinspun, E. (Aug. 1, 2012)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012)

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