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The Teapot Senate , submitted to the 2025-2026 Academic Year's Teapot Rendering Competition . This was rendered using my very own path tracer, which I developed as part of the University of Utah's Rendering with Ray Tracing course.

Projects

Most of my projects involve Physics-Based Simulation, but I have worked with some rendering research as well. I have worked extensively with Vertex Block Descent (VBD) and continue to work in my lab with projects involving fluid simulation, hair simulation, and soft body simulation.

Here are several projects that have been published with the Graphics Lab at the University of Utah.

University of Utah Graphics Lab

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Implicit Position-Based Fluids

We introduced a novel SPH scheme that uses a second-order implicit descent scheme to optimize a variational energy specially formulated to approach incompressibility.
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Augmented Vertex Block Descent

We augmented Vertex Block Descent with the Augmented Lagrangian to handle hard constraints and high stiffness ratios. This work was presented as a paper at SIGGRAPH 2025 and as a demo as part of Real Time Live!, where we were selected as the Audience Choice Winner.
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Strand-Based Hair Rendering

Designed and maintained a Position-Based Dynamics and Vertex Block Descent simulation of Hair Meshes as part of the Hair Rendering Pipeline introduced in this project.
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Shortest Path to Boundary

Designed and built the Position-Based Dynamics Simulator to test the Collision-Detection introduced with the Shortest Path to Boundary Publication.