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Jiahao Wen | 文嘉豪

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Southern California
jiahaow@usc.edu


Zhejiang University The University of Tokyo University of Southern California Adobe Research

About Me

I am currently pursuing a Computer Graphics Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Jernej Barbič. Before joining USC, I obtained my B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the mixed class at Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University. I was very fortunate to work with Prof. Jin Huang and Prof. Nobuyuki Umetani during my undergraduate studies. I also had four successive internships at Adobe Research, collaborating with Dr. Danny M. Kaufman.

I am expected to graduate by Spring 2026 and am seeking global opportunities in both academia and industry. Feel free to reach out if you know of a position that would be a good fit. Thank you:)

Research Interests

I am generally interested in both physically based simulation and geometry processing, especially in adaptive simulation, incremental potential contact(IPC), finite element method(FEM), numerical optimization, surface editing, and co-dimensional elastic object simulation involved with differential geometry. I always come across problems that are difficult to solve and publish:)

Publications

  1. Optimal r-Adaptive In-Timestep Remeshing for Elastodynamics
    Jiahao Wen, Jernej Barbič, Danny M. Kaufman
    Siggraph North America 2025
    ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(6), 2025

  2. ANIME-Rod: Adjustable Nonlinear Isotropic Materials for Elastic Rods
    Huanyu Chen, Jiahao Wen, Jernej Barbič
    Siggraph North America 2025
    ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(6), 2025

  3. Kirchhoff-Love Shells with Arbitrary Hyperelastic Materials
    Jiahao Wen, Jernej Barbič
    Siggraph Asia 2023
    ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(6), 2023
    PDF Video Talk

  4. Large-Strain Surface Modeling using Plasticity
    Jiahao Wen, Bohan Wang, Jernej Barbič
    IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2023
    PDF Video Talk

  5. Cosserat Rod with rh-Adaptive Discretization
    Jiahao Wen, Jiong Chen, Nobuyuki Umetani, Hujun Bao, Jin Huang
    Pacific Graphics 2020
    Computer Graphics Forum, 39(7), 143-154, 2020
    PDF Video (Undergraduate Thesis)

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