Ahmed Mahmoud
ahdhn.bsky.social
Ahmed Mahmoud
@ahdhn.bsky.social
Postdoc at MIT. HPC - Geometric Data Processing (he/him) ahdhn.github.io
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September 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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We just wrapped up the 5th Summer Geometry Initiative (SGI), bringing 30 Fellows to our cohort of 150+ alumni, who go on to PhD/MS programs, industry jobs, and more. Despite overwhelming success, SGI26 is uncertain thanks to the changing funding landscape. Please help by helping identify sponsors!
September 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The Meschers talk is tomorrow!

"Shapes, Surfaces & Forms"
3:45 – 5:35 PM
West Building, Rooms 220-222!
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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🎉☕ Announcing WiGRAPH Conference Coffees: SIGGRAPH 2025 Edition! ☕🎉

Are you a researcher of an underrepresented gender registered for SIGGRAPH? Do you want an opportunity to network with your peers? Learn more and sign up here:
www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...
WiGRAPH Conference Coffee: Sign-Up
WiGRAPH is organizing a SIGGRAPH 2025 conference coffee! Are you a researcher of a gender that is underrepresented at SIGGRAPH? Would you like for an opportunity to network with peers? Sign up for th...
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June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The materials of my graduate school course at #SGP2025 on "Deep Learning on Meshes and Point Clouds" are live on rubenwiersma.nl/deeplearning. A 'map' for 3D deep learning, covering the basics and thoughts on when and where to use deep learning tools in 3D.
July 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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We are pleased to announce an open PhD position at the CNR-ISTI
We are looking for a motivated PhD student with a background and interest in 3D Graphics, Geometry Processing, and Machine Learning.

**Deadline: 18 July 2025**

phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it/applications/
(pag 19 of the call: AI for 3D)
July 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Our #SGP25 work studies a simple and effective way to uniformly sample implicit surfaces by casting rays. (1/9)

“Uniform Sampling of Surfaces by Casting Rays” w/ @abhishekmadan.bsky.social @nmwsharp.bsky.social and Alec Jacobson
June 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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MIT News today features a paper with fun examples coming out this summer by our brilliant PhD student Leticia Mattos Da Silva, postdoc—and Columbia professor in a matter of days!— @silviasellan.bsky.social, and PhD student collaborator Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj. news.mit.edu/2025/animati... Flubber!
Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects
MIT researchers developed a computationally efficient method that could enable artists to design realistic simulations of elastic objects, like bouncy or squishy characters, for animated movies or vid...
news.mit.edu
June 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Selena's #Siggraph25 work found a simple, nearly one-line change that greatly eases neural field optimization for a wide variety of existing representations.

“Stochastic Preconditioning for Neural Field Optimization” by Selena Ling, Merlin Nimier-David, Alec Jacobson, & me.
June 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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🔷🦀 TetWeave: Isosurface Extraction using On-The-Fly Delaunay Tetrahedral Grids for Gradient-Based Mesh Optimization is accepted to #SIGGRAPH2025 (TOG).

Done in collaboration with @rubenwiersma.nl, Philipp Herholz, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung.

But why a new shape representation? (1/9)
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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SGP 2025 is accepting poster submissions! More information here: sgp2025.my.canva.site/submit-page-...
April 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Our final talk: Ed Chien and Ben Jones on computational knitting!
April 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Now Wojciech Jarosz, our keynote, to tell us about Monte Carlo geometry/PDE!
April 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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A record number of NESG posters this year!
April 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Now @mandyxmq.bsky.social, sharing her work on optical simulation and inverse rendering!
April 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Next up: Ticha Sethapakdi, helping us bridge between HCI, fabrication, and graphics!
April 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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After a brief (5 year 🤔) hiatus, the New England Symposium on Graphics is back! Kudos to our many audience members who got up early on a Saturday to catch @jamestompkin.bsky.social, our first speaker of the day. Not too late to join us! Find a schedule here: nesg.graphics
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 Apply now to be part of the 2025 cohort of WiGRAPH rising stars! 🚨🚨🚨

Rising Stars is a mentoring program with workshops co-located with SIGGRAPH for students and post-docs of under-represented genders in graphics research.

Deadline for submissions: Apr 18

www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...
Call for Rising Stars Applications
The Rising Stars in Computer Graphics program is designed to bring new perspectives to computer graphics research. This is a two-year program that will be co-located with SIGGRAPH 2025 and SIGGRAPH 20...
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April 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I’ll be giving a talk at the New England Symposium on Graphics at MIT this year!
📢New England Symposium on Graphics 2025 is BACK on April 26 at at MIT. Join us for inspiring talks, including a keynote by Prof. Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth) plus a poster session, networking, and more. Attendance is FREE—register now: forms.gle/5zWWAQL4KtU7.... Full details: nesg.graphics
April 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The Symposium on Geometry Processing is an amazing venue for geometry research: meshes, point clouds, neural fields, 3D ML, etc. Reviews are quick and high-quality.

The deadline is in ~10 days. Consider submitting your work, I'm planning to submit!

sgp2025.my.canva.site/submit-page-...
SGP 2025 - Submit page
sgp2025.my.canva.site
April 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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As the spring semester is starting, this is the bi-yearly reminder of the collections of courses on geometry processing available here: mirelab6.wixsite.com/dgpslides. Ping me if you teach geometry processing and want your course added.
Home | 3D Geometry Processing Courses and Seminars
3D GEOMETRY PROCESSING COURSES AND SEMINARS
mirelab6.wixsite.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢New England Symposium on Graphics 2025 is BACK on April 26 at at MIT. Join us for inspiring talks, including a keynote by Prof. Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth) plus a poster session, networking, and more. Attendance is FREE—register now: forms.gle/5zWWAQL4KtU7.... Full details: nesg.graphics
March 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Applications are open for the 2025 Rising Stars program!

Apply here:

www.wigraph.org/programs/ris...
Rising Stars
Launched in 2022, the Rising Stars in Computer Graphics program is designed to bring new perspectives to computer graphics research. This is a two-year program tailored for researchers who expect to b...
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March 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Another satisfied Reviewer #2...
March 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Announcing SGI 2025! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu
January 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM