I am a PhD student at ETH Zurich with Prof. Bernd Bickel. Before moving to Zurich, I spent one year as an intern at IST Austria with Bernd, and also briefly enrolled at EPFL. I graduated from CUHK with a BSc. in Computer Science (first class honors) in 2021.
I enjoy exploring colors, shapes, structures in both physical and virtual worlds (and in their intersection). Check my resume for more information.
News:
- A short talk about our embroidery project can be found on youtube now!
Publications
I also publish under the name Liu Zhenyuan.
Research Experience
Prior to the start of my PhD, I had great chances to explore various topics in computer science.
During my internship at IST Austria, I was working on an algorithm that transform images into embroidery patterns in real life via a programmable embroidery machine. The project turned into a publication at Eurographics 2023.
Starting from my final year at CUHK, I worked with Prof. Fu Chi Wing, on a digital fabrication project as my graduation project. We studied the design and optimization of the structural rigidity of assembly structures. After I graduated, I spent two months at IST extending it to a paper which got into Eurographics 2022 in the end.
I also worked on a few other short-term research projects before I stepped into the world of graphics, including computationally efficient neural networks with Prof. Anand Sarwate at Rutgers, funded by Professor Charles K. Kao Scholarship; generating adversarial samples in natural language processing with Prof. Michael Lyu; and information theory with Prof. Sidharth Jaggi.
Side Projects
I like to work on personal projects on the side, for the maximized freedom there I have to “hack”
- Bloggraph: A Hugo theme that powers this website.
- TimeWalk: A coding metric tracker I use everyday, extensible, private, totally local. VSCode plugin available.
- Slurmmy: Scripts that automate slurm jobs submission, maximize your slurm cluster usage.
- Change: The winning entry of the rendering competition of Advanced Computer Graphics 2023 at EPFL.
Hobbies
When I’m not scratching my head in the lab, I enjoy playing with my camera. I’ve been slowly and painstakingly organizing my photos into my photo website.
I also like playing boardgames and making cocktails (and drinking them).