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Research spanning geometric computing, intelligent design, manufacturability analysis, and computational fabrication.

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2026
Neural Field-Based Sequence Planning for Additive-Subtractive Hybrid Manufacturing
Neural Field-Based Sequence Planning for Additive-Subtractive Hybrid Manufacturing
Shudan Guo, Fanchao Zhong, Liyuan Wang, Haisen Zhao*
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2026, Poster track
Enhanced Energy Absorption in Re-Entrant Honeycombs via Elliptical Double-Arrow Hybrid Design
Enhanced Energy Absorption in Re-Entrant Honeycombs via Elliptical Double-Arrow Hybrid Design [Paper]
Wenpeng Xu, Dongxia Wang, Jinglong Zhang, Jiahe Hu, Hao Xu, Liuchao Jin, Haitao Ye, Haisen Zhao, Wei-Hsin Liao
Thin-Walled Structures, 2026
Manifold k-NN: Accelerated k-NN Queries for Manifold Point Clouds
Manifold k-NN: Accelerated k-NN Queries for Manifold Point Clouds [Project page]
Pengfei Wang, Qinghao Guo, Haisen Zhao, Shiqing Xin, Shuangmin Chen, Changhe Tu, Wenping Wang
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026, Journal track
DeepMill++: Neural Guidance Meets Rasterization for Efficient Accessibility Analysis
DeepMill++: Neural Guidance Meets Rasterization for Efficient Accessibility Analysis [Project page]
Fanchao Zhong, Yao Zhang, Guanze Xin, Peng-Shuai Wang, Lin Lu, Changhe Tu, Haisen Zhao*
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026, Conference track
From Orbit to Ground: Generative City Photogrammetry from Extreme Off-Nadir Satellite Images
From Orbit to Ground: Generative City Photogrammetry from Extreme Off-Nadir Satellite Images [Project page]
Fei Yu, Yu Liu, Luyang Tang, Mingchao Sun, Zengye Ge, Rui Bu, Yuchao Jin, Haisen Zhao, He Sun, Yangyan Li, Mu Xu, Wenzheng Chen, Baoquan Chen
CVPR 2026 Findings
Rich and Cross-Fused Feature Embedding for Few-Shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
Rich and cross-fused feature embedding for few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation [Project page]
Yuyun Wei, Haisen Zhao, Jia Cui, Meng Qi
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2026
Recovering 3D Shapes from Ultra-Fast Motion-Blurred Images
Recovering 3D Shapes from Ultra-Fast Motion-Blurred Images
Fei Yu, Shudan Guo, Shiqing Xin, Beibei Wang, Haisen Zhao*, Wenzheng Chen
3DV 2026 Conference

2025
DHMP: A Large 3D Model Dataset for Hybrid Manufacturing Process Planning
DHMP: A Large 3D Model Dataset for Hybrid Manufacturing Process Planning [Project page]
Liyuan Wang, Fanchao Zhong, Manyi Li, Haisen Zhao*
Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 2025
(in Chinese)
Waste-to-Value: Reutilized Material Maximization for Additive and Subtractive Hybrid Remanufacturing
Waste-to-Value: Reutilized Material Maximization for Additive and Subtractive Hybrid Remanufacturing [Project page]
Fanchao Zhong, Zhenmin Zhang, Liyuan Wang, Xin Yan, Jikai Liu, Lin Lu, Haisen Zhao*
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (journal track)
Chapper: Carvable Hull-and-Pack for Subtractive Manufacturing
Chapper: Carvable Hull-and-Pack for Subtractive Manufacturing [Project page]
Zhenmin Zhang, Shuai Feng, Hao Xu, Lujiaoyang Fu, Lin Lu, Jianwei Guo, Haisen Zhao*
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (journal track)
Carvable Packing of Revolved 3D Objects for Subtractive Manufacturing
Carvable packing of revolved 3D objects for subtractive manufacturing [Project page]
Chengdong Wei, Shuai Feng, Hao Xu, Qidong Zhang, Songyang Zhang, Zongzhen Li, Changhe Tu, Haisen Zhao*
Graphical Models 2025
Special issue of VSI: Add-and-Sub Manufacturing
DeepMill: Neural Accessibility Learning for Subtractive Manufacturing
DeepMill: Neural Accessibility Learning for Subtractive Manufacturing [Project page]
Fanchao Zhong, Yang Wang, Peng-Shuai Wang, Lin Lu, Haisen Zhao*
ACM SIGGRAPH 2025, Conference track
MIND: Microstructure INverse Design with Generative Hybrid Neural Representation
MIND: Microstructure INverse Design with Generative Hybrid Neural Representation [Project page]
Tianyang Xue, Longdu Liu, Lin Lu*, Paul Henderson, Pengbin Tang, Haochen Li, Jikai Liu, Haisen Zhao, Hao Peng, Bernd Bickel
ACM SIGGRAPH 2025, Conference track
Carving Shapes with Ruled Surfaces for Rough Machining
Carving Shapes with Ruled Surfaces for Rough Machining [Project page]
Zheng Zhang, Yifei Li, Kang Wu, Haisen Zhao, Xu Liu, Xiang Wang, Ligang Liu, Xiao-Ming Fu
Computers & Graphics, 2025
WireSculptor: Interactive Guided Bending Workflow for Novice-Friendly Wire Sculpture Fabrication
WireSculptor: Interactive Guided Bending Workflow for Novice-Friendly Wire Sculpture Fabrication [Project page] [Paper]
Runze Xue, Fei Yu, Baohang Zhou, Jialu Wang, Fan Zhong, Qiong Zeng, Haisen Zhao
ICXR, 2025

2024
Tune-It: Optimizing Wire Reconfiguration for Sculpture Manufacturing
Tune-It: Optimizing Wire Reconfiguration for Sculpture Manufacturing [Project page]
Qibing Wu, Zhihao Zhang, Xin Yan, Fanchao Zhong, Yueze Zhu, Xurong Lu, Runze Xue, Rui Li, Changhe Tu, Haisen Zhao*
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Conference track
Continuous Toolpath Optimization for Simultaneous Four-Axis Subtractive Manufacturing
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*
Computer Graphics Forum, 2024

2023
VASCO: Volume and Surface Co-Decomposition for Hybrid Manufacturing
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*
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
(ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, Journal track)
As-Continuous-as-Possible Extrusion-Based Fabrication of Surface Models
As-continuous-as-possible Extrusion-based Fabrication of Surface Models [Project page]
Fanchao Zhong, Yonglai Xu, Haisen Zhao*, Lin Lu*
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Present on ACM SIGGRAPH 2023


2022
Co-Optimization of Design and Fabrication Plans for Carpentry
Co-Optimization of Design and Fabrication Plans for Carpentry [Project page][Paper]
Haisen Zhao, Max Willsey, Amy Zhu, Chandrakana Nandi, Zachary Tatlock, Justin Solomon, Adriana Schulz
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Present on ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Computational Design of Knit Templates
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

2021
A Roadmap Towards Parallel Printing for Desktop 3D Printers
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 I. Lipton, Adriana Schulz, Zachary Tatlock
SFF Symp 2021
Robotic Jigsaw: A Non-Holonomic Cutting Robot and Path Planning Algorithm
Robotic Jigsaw: A Non-Holonomic Cutting Robot and Path Planning Algorithm
Haisen Zhao, Yash Talwekar, Wenqing Lan, Chetan Sharma, Daniela Rus, Adriana Schulz, Jeffrey I. Lipton

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

Computer Graphics Forum (SGP 2021)
Shell Thickening for Extrusion-Based Ceramics Printing
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)

2020
VDAC: Volume Decompose-and-Carve for Subtractive Manufacturing
VDAC: Volume Decompose-and-Carve for Subtractive Manufacturing [Project page] [Paper]
Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Fenggen Yu, Haisen Zhao*, Adriana Schulz, Hao Zhang

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
(ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)

2019
Carpentry Compiler
Carpentry Compiler [Project page] [Paper]
Chenming Wu, Haisen Zhao, Chandrakana Nandi, Jeffrey I. Lipton, Zachary Tatlock, Adriana Schulz
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
(ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019)
Strong 3D Printing by TPMS Injection

2018
Geometric Research and Application on Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing
Geometric Research and Application on Additive and Subtractive manufacturing [Paper]
CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019
PhD Thesis (in Chinese), 2018, Shandong University
DSCarver: Decompose-and-Spiral-Carve for Subtractive Manufacturing
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)

2016
Connected Fermat Spirals for Layered Fabrication
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)
Printed Perforated Lampshades for Continuous Projective Images
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

2015
Variational Circular Treemaps for Hierarchical Data
Variational Circular Treemaps for Hierarchical Data [Paper]
Haisen Zhao, Lin Lu, Zhitao Bo

Journal of Software (PacificVis 2015) (in Chinese)

2014
Build-to-Last: Strength to Weight 3D Printed Objects
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)

2012
An Algorithm for Visibility Computation of Points Based on Voronoi Diagrams
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)