Etienne Vouga, Ph.D.

Dr. Etienne Vouga is an assistant professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2013 under Eitan Grinspun and spent a year as an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, working with L. Mahadevan. His research is at the intersection of computer graphics, computational mechanics, and mathematics, and his specific interests include physical simulation of everyday materials like cloth, hair, and paper; algorithms for detecting and resolving collisions that arise during animations; and using geometry processing algorithms and discrete differential geometry to solve inverse problems.