Geoffrey Irving

Ph.D. Computer Science, Stanford
B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, Caltech
irving@cs.stanford.edu

Research

My research interests include computer graphics, computational physics, compilers and languages, and games.

• Hybrid simulations of deformable solids including embedding and rigid body coupling (with Eftychios Sifakis, Tamar Shinar, and Ron Fedkiw).
  
  
  
  
• Volume preserving finite element simulations of deformable solids (with Craig Schroeder and Ron Fedkiw).
  
  
  
  
• Efficient simulation of large bodies of water by coupling two and three dimensional techniques (with Eran Guendelman, Frank Losasso, and Ron Fedkiw).
  
  
  
  
• Melting and burning Lagrangian mesh-based solids into Eulerian grid-based fluids (with Frank Losasso, Eran Guendelman, and Ron Fedkiw).
  
  
  
  
• Robust invertible quasistatic simulations for skinning (with Joey Teran, Eftychios Sifakis, and Ron Fedkiw).
  
  
  
  
• Robust finite element simulation, even for degenerate and inverted elements (with Joey Teran and Ron Fedkiw).
  
  

Publications

• Irving, G. "Methods for the Physically Based Simulation of Solids and Fluids". Ph.D. Thesis. Stanford University, Computer Science, 2007.
• Sifakis, E., Shinar, T., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R. "Hybrid Simulation of Deformable Solids", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic (in press).
• Irving, G., Schroeder, C., and Fedkiw, R. "Volume Conserving Finite Element Simulations of Deformable Models". SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG (in press).
• Irving, G., Guendelman, E., Losasso, F., and Fedkiw, R. "Efficient Simulation of Large Bodies of Water by Coupling Two and Three Dimensional Techniques". SIGGRAPH 2006, ACM TOG 25, 805-811, 2006.
• Losasso, F., Irving, G., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R. "Melting and Burning Solids into Liquids and Gases". IEEE TVCG 12, 343-352, 2006.
• Irving, G., Teran, J., and Fedkiw, R. "Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Invertible Finite Elements". Graphical Models 68, 66-89, 2006.
• Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R. "Robust Quasistatic Finite Elements and Flesh Simulation". ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by K. Anjyo and P. Faloutsos, 181-190, 2005.
• Irving, G., Teran, J., and Fedkiw, R. "Invertible Finite Elements for Robust Simulation of Large Deformation". ACM/SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by R. Boulic and D. Pai, 131-140, 2004.
• Irving, G., Donkers, H.H.L.M., and Uiterwijk, J.W.H.M. "Solving Kalah". ICGA Journal. Vol 23, No. 3. pp. 139-148, 2000.

Collaborators

• Ron Fedkiw (advisor)
• Joey Teran
• Eftychios Sifakis
• Frank Losasso
• Eran Guendelman
• Craig Schroeder
• Tamar Shinar
• Andrew Selle
• Jonathan Su

Personal Stuff

• Gosoku Ryu karate...
  Unfortunately, I could not find any Gosoku Ryu dojos in the bay area. If you know of one, or would like someone to practice kata with, I would be very happy to get an email.

• Friends and family...
  My dad in his element.
  My mom's the tall one.
  Bonnie holding pure evil.
  Brita looking cool.
  Tamar.
  A friend who wishes to remain anonymous.
  Another friend.
  Weronika, smiling.
  A good party.
  

• Me...
  Don't try this at home.
  Not particularly clean.
  In a small cave.
  

• Alaska...
  Part of my old neighborhood.
  The Copper river.
  The Gulkana glacier.
  A bird feeder.
  I missed this one.
  

• Miscellaneous...
  Joshua Tree.
  

• Important stuff...
  Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut.
  Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse.
  Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
  Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn.
  The Story of B, by Daniel Quinn.
  The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman.
  The Power of Myth, with Joseph Campbell.
  

Miscellaneous

• Kalah solver code.
  
• Hilbert curve computation.
  
• A few theory questions/results.
  

irving@cs.stanford.edu