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Haisen Zhao | 赵海森

Professor
Shandong University
Interdisciplinary Research Center
School of Computer Science and Technology
72 Binhai Ave, Jimo, Qingdao, China, 266237
Office: 408
Email: haisenzhao [at] gmail.com, haisenzhao [at] sdu.edu.cn

Recruiting research interns, master/Ph.D. candidates and postdoctors !!!


Bio

Haisen Zhao is a professor (CV) of Shandong University (SDU). He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center. His research interest lies at the geometric processing and its application for digital fabrication, including additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing. He completed his Ph.D. from Shandong University (2018) under the supervision of Baoquan Chen and received Master's and Bachelor's degree in School of Computer Science and Technology and School of Software at Shandong University in 2014 and 2011, respectively. Haisen Zhao was a postdoctor at the University of Washington, as a member of the Computer Graphics Group (GRAIL), working with Prof. Adriana Schulz from 2019 to 2021. He was a postdoctor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), as a member of the Computer Graphics and Digital Fabrication Group, working with Prof. Bernd Bickel from 2021 to 2022.

赵海森,山东大学计算机学院教授,山东大学杰出中青年人才,国家级青年人才,博士生导师。主要研究方向为计算机图形学、数字几何设计,基于人工智能的几何设计与制造。面向新一代智能制造需求开展计算机图形学基础理论与算法的研究,提升国家工业软件领域的自主创新能力。目前,研究课题主要集中在三个方面:1)复杂几何结构设计与制造的多目标优化与快速迭代问题;2)面向高效制造的复杂几何形状智能分析与计算问题;3)物理性能驱动的复杂几何优化问题。2018年12月获得山东大学工学博士学位,导师为陈宝权教授。2019年至2022年分别在美国华盛顿大学和奥地利科学技术研究所从事博士后研究,导师为Adriana Schulz 教授和Bernd Bickel教授。曾在ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)、ACM SIGGRAPH/Asia、IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics (TVCG)、IROS等顶级期刊或会议上发表论文十余篇,申请十余项国家发明专利和一项美国发明专利,出版专著1部。担任中国计算机协会CAD&CG专委会委员,中国工业与应用数学学会GDC专委会委员,中国图像图形学会三维视觉专委会委员。 获山东省自然科学奖一等奖、“CCF优秀博士学位论文奖”和“CAD&CG 2012优秀学生论文”等荣誉。

News

  • Mar. 29, 2025: 2 papers conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH 2025.
  • Feb. 28, 2025: invited to present at Asiagraphics Workshop on Intelligent Graphics.
  • Jan. 07, 2025: invited to present our CGF paper at Eurographics 2025.
  • Oct. 05, 2024: invited to be a TPC member of SIGGRAPH 2025.

  • Publications    Google scholar    DBLP

    Deformation streaming
    Tune-It: Optimizing Wire Reconfiguration for Sculpture Manufacturing [Project page]
    Qibing Wu and Zhihao Zhang, Xin Yan, Fanchao Zhong, Yueze Zhu, Xurong Lu, Runze Xue, Rui Li, Changhe Tu, Haisen Zhao* *corresponding author
    ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Conference track
    Deformation streaming
    Continuous Toolpath Optimization for Simultaneous Four-Axis Subtractive Manufacturing [Project page]
    Zhenmin Zhang, Zihan Shi, Fanchao Zhong, Kun Zhang, Wenjing Zhang, Jianwei Guo, Changhe Tu, Haisen Zhao* *corresponding author
    Computer Graphics Forum, 2024
    Deformation streaming
    VASCO: Volume and Surface Co-Decomposition for Hybrid Manufacturing [Project page]
    Fanchao Zhong, Haisen Zhao*, Haochen Li, Xin Yan, Jikai Liu, Baoquan Chen, Lin Lu* *corresponding author
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, Journal track)
    Deformation streaming
    As-continuous-as-possible Extrusion-based Fabrication of Surface Models [Project page]
    Fanchao Zhong, Yonglai Xu, Haisen Zhao*, Lin Lu* *corresponding author
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    Present on ACM SIGGRAPH 2023

    Deformation streaming
    Co-Optimization of Design and Fabrication Plans for Carpentry [Project page][2107.12265]
    Haisen Zhao, Max Willsey, Amy Zhu, Chandrakana Nandi, Zachary Tatlock, Justin Solomon, Adriana Schulz
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    Present on ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
    Deformation streaming
    Computational Design of Knit Templates
    [Project page] [Paper]
    Ben Jones, Yuxuan Mei, Haisen Zhao, Taylor Gotfrid, Jennifer Mankoff, Adriana Schulz

    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    Present on ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
    Deformation streaming
    A Roadmap Towards Parallel Printing for Desktop 3D Printers [Paper] [Slides] [Talk]
    Molly Carton, Chandrakana Nandi, Adam Anderson, Haisen Zhao, Eva Darulova, Dan Grossman, Jeffrey Lipton, Adriana Schulz, Zachary Tatlock
    SFF Symp 2021
    Deformation streaming
    Robotic Jigsaws: Path Planning for Non-Holonomic Cutting Robots [Project page] [Paper]
    Haisen Zhao, Yash Talwekar, Wenging Lan, Chetan Sharma, Daniela Rus, Adriana Schulz, Jeffrey Lipton

    IEEE IROS 2021
    Deformation streaming
    Fabrication-Aware Reverse Engineering for Carpentry
    [Project page] [Paper]
    James Noeckel, Haisen Zhao, Brian Curless, Adriana Schulz

    Computer Graphics Forum (SGP 2021)
    Deformation streaming
    Shell Thickening for Extrusion-Based Ceramics Printing [Project page] [Paper]
    Yu Xing, Yu Zhou, Xin Yan, Haisen Zhao, Wenqiang Liu, Jingbo Jiang, Lin Lu

    Computers & Graphics (CAD & Graphics 2021)
    Deformation streaming
    VDAC: Volume Decompose-and-Carve for Subtractive Manufacturing [Project page] [Paper]
    Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Fenggen Yu, Haisen Zhao*, Adriana Schulz, Hao Zhang
    *corresponding author
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)
    Deformation streaming
    Carpentry Compiler [Project page] [Paper]
    Chenming Wu, Haisen Zhao, Chandrakana Nandi, Jeffrey Lipton, Zachary Tatlock, Adriana Schulz
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019)
    Deformation streaming
    Deformation streaming
    Geometric Research and Application on Additive and Subtractive manufacturing [Paper]
    CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019
    PhD Thesis (in Chinese), 2018, Shandong University
    Deformation streaming
    DSCarver: Decompose-and-Spiral-Carve for Subtractive Manufacturing [Project page] [Paper]
    Haisen Zhao, Hao Zhang, Shiqing Xin, Yuanmin Deng, Changhe Tu, Wenping Wang, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen

    ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2018)
    Deformation streaming
    Connected Fermat Spirals for Layered Fabrication
    [Project page] [Paper]
    Haisen Zhao, Fanglin Gu, Qixing Huang, J. A. Garcia Galicia, Yong Chen, Changhe Tu, Bedrich Benes, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen

    ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2016)
    Deformation streaming
    Printed Perforated Lampshades for Continuous Projective Images [Project page] [Paper]
    Haisen Zhao, Lin Lu, Yuan Wei, Dani Lischinski, Andrei Sharf, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen
    ACM Transactions on Graphics
    Present on ACM SIGGRAPH 2016
    Deformation streaming
    Variational Circular Treemaps for Hierarchical Data [Paper]
    Haisen Zhao, Lin Lu, Zhitao Bo

    Journal of Software (PacificVis 2015) (in Chinese)
    Deformation streaming
    Build-to-Last: Strength to Weight 3D Printed Objects
    [Project Page]
    Lin Lu, Andrei Sharf, Haisen Zhao, Yuan Wei, Qingnan Fan, Xuelin Chen, Yann Savoye, Changhe Tu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2014)
    Deformation streaming
    An algorithm for visibility computation of points based on Voronoi diagrams [Paper]
    Haisen Zhao, Chenglei Yang, Lin Lu, Xiaoting Wang, Yijun Yang, Xiangxu Meng

    Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (CAD/CG 2012), Best Student Paper. (in Chinese)

    Grant

    2025.01-2028.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62472257) PI
    2024.12-2027.11 National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2024YFB3309502) PI
    2024.01-2027.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U23A20312) Participate
    2023.01-2025.12 Science Fund Program for Excellent Young Scientists (Overseas) PI
    2023.01-2025.12 National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2022ZD0160805), Participate

    Teaching

    2025, Spring-Summer, Undergraduation Thesis (Design), Undergraduates (7), sd01330120
    2025, Spring-Summer, Computer Graphics, Undergraduates (77), sd013314500
    2024, Autumn-Winter, Advanced Human-Computer Interaction Techniques, Graduates (40), 0470101
    2024, Autumn-Winter, Foundations of Computer Science, Undergraduates (19), sd03423700
    2024, Autumn-Winter, Human-Computer Interaction Techniques, Undergraduates (127), sd01331130
    2024, Spring-Summer, Undergraduation Thesis (Design), Undergraduates (6), sd01330120
    2024, Spring-Summer, Computer Graphics, Undergraduates (96), sd013314500
    2023, Autumn-Winter, Human-Computer Interaction Techniques, Undergraduates (118), sd01331130
    2023, Spring-Summer, Undergraduation Thesis (Design), Undergraduates (9), sd01330120
    2023, Spring-Summer, Computer Graphics, Undergraduates (115), sd013314500

    Group

    2025.09: Zhenmin Zhang (Ph.D.), Liyuan Wang (M.S.), Yiming Jiang (M.S.)
    2024.09: Hao Xu (Ph.D.), Chengdong Wei (M.S.), Yang Wang (M.S.), Shuai Feng (M.S.)
    2023.09: Fanchao Zhong (Ph.D.), Zhihao Zhang (M.S.), Zhenmin Zhang (M.S.), Mingze Li (M.S., co-supervision)
    2023.08: Pengbin Tang (Postdoc, co-supervision, Next: Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich)
    2022.11: Xin Yan (Postdoc, co-supervision, Next: Associate Researcher at Shandong University)
    2022.11: Qibing Wu (M.S., co-supervision, Next: Xiaomi Corporation)
    2021.09: Fanchao Zhong (M.S., co-supervision, Next: Ph.D. at Shandong Universtiy)

    Experience

    2022.11—now Professor, Shandong University
    2021.09—2022.09 Postdoctoral researcher, working with Prof. Bernd Bickel, IST Austria
    2019.03—2021.08 Postdoctoral researcher, working with Prof. Adriana Schulz, University of Washington
    2019.01—2019.02 Research Intern, working with Prof. Baoquan Chen, Peking University
    2014.09—2018.12 PhD candidate, advisor: Prof. Baoquan Chen, Shandong University
    2011.09—2014.07 Master candidate, Research Center of HCI&VR, Shandong University
    2007.09—2011.07 Bachelor candidate, Digital Media Technology, Shandong University

    Honors and Awards

    2020 First prize of Shandong Natural Science Award, Shandong Province
    2019 Doctoral Dissertation Award, CCF
    2018 Innovation Capacity Improvement Scholarship, Shandong University
    2017 Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship, Shandong University
    2016 President Scholarship, Shandong University
    2016 National Scholarship, Chinese Education Department