Desai Chen

About Me

Finite element simulation, computer graphics, computational geometry, 3D printing, C/C++.

Works at Foundation EGI (2025-).

Worked at Inkbit (2017-2025).

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Publications

Vision-controlled jetting for composite systems and robots

Thomas Jakob Konrad Buchner, Simon Rogler, Stefan Weirich, Yannick Armati, Barnabas Gavin Cangan, Javier Ramos, Scott Twiddy, Davide M. Marini, Aaron Weber, Desai Chen, Gregory Ellson, Joshua Jacob, Walter Zengerle, Dmitriy Katalichenko, Chetan Keny, Wojciech Matusik, Robert K. Katzschmann. Nature 623, 522–530 (2023).
Dense, Interlocking-Free and Scalable Spectral Packing of Generic 3D Objects

Qiaodong Cui, Victor Rong, Desai Chen, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 42, Issue 4 (2023).
Computational discovery of extremal microstructure families

Desai Chen, Mélina Skouras, Bo Zhu, and Wojciech Matusik. Sci. Adv.4, eaao7005(2018). Data
Dynamics-aware numerical coarsening for fabrication design

Desai Chen, David I. Levin, Wojciech Matusik, Danny M.Kaufman. ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH 2017).
An Interaction-Aware, Perceptual Model For Non-Linear Elastic Objects

Michal Piovarči, David I.W. Levin, Jason Rebello, Desai Chen, Roman Ďurikovič, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Piotr Didyk. ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH 2016).
Simit: A Language for Physical Simulation

Fredrik Kjolstad, Shoaib Kamil, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, David I. W. Levin, Shinjiro Sueda, Desai Chen, Etienne Vouga, Danny M. Kaufman, Gurtej Kanwar, Wojciech Matusik, Saman Amarasinghe. ACM Trans. Graph. Volume 35, Issue 2 (TOG 2016).
Data-Driven Finite Elements for Geometry and Material Design

Desai Chen, David I.W. Levin, Shinjiro Sueda, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH 2015).
Spec2Fab: A Reducer-Tuner Model for Translating Specifications to 3D Prints

Desai Chen, David I.W. Levin, Piotr Didyk, Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH 2013).
Computing and Fabricating Multiplanar Models

Desai Chen, Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, Justin T. Lan and Wojciech Matusik. Eurographics (2013).
Unsupervised Bilingual POS Tagging with Markov Random Fields

Desai Chen, Chris Dyer, Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith. EMNLP Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP (UNSUP 2011).
SEMAFOR: Frame Argument Resolution with Log-Linear Models

Desai Chen, Nathan Schneider, Dipanjan Das, and Noah A. Smith. International (ACL) Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2010).
Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing

Dipanjan Das, Nathan Schneider, Desai Chen, and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL 2010).