ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

I am a second-year PhD student in the Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Taku Komura. Before starting my Ph.D study journey, I worked with Prof. Hong Qin (Stony Brook University, New York) and Prof. Changbo Wang (ECNU) on Physical Simulation and High-Performance Computing, specifically focusing on real-time fluid simulation.

I am currently working with Dr. Minchen Li at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on Numerical Optimization, differentiable simulation and Robotics.

My current research interests include: Physical simulation, High performance computing, Differentiable simulation, Sim2Real(Robotics), Sim4ML, Machine Learning, Geometry processing, Rendering. I hope our research can help advance the development of real-time, physically accurate virtual world, and assist artificial intelligence in gaining a more efficient and comprehensive understanding of the real physical world. Hope that one day you will love my virtual physical world :—)

NEWS

2024 - One another interesting and super useful work is on the horizon.
2024 - We have opensourced the first fully GPU optimized IPC framework without sacrificing accuracy.
2024 - We have opensourced a highly optimized GPU MPM framework with clean code organization. Hope it can be helpful for high performance simulation learners.
2023 - We have opensourced a highly optimized GPU SPH framework. While the code organization may not be perfect, the underlying parallel concept is clear and robust. Hope it can be helpful for high performance simulation learners.

RECENT RESEARCH

  1. GIPC: Fast and stable Gauss-Newton optimization of IPC barrier energy[J].
    Kemeng Huang, Floyd M. Chitalu, Huancheng Lin, Taku Komura.
    ACM Transaction on Graphics, 2024. (will be presented in Siggraph 2024)
    [paper] [arxiv version with technique supplement] [video] [video] [source code]

  2. A Novel Plastic Phase-Field Method for Ductile Fracture with GPU Optimization[J].
    Zipeng Zhao*, Kemeng Huang* (equal contribution), Chen Li, Changbo Wang, Hong Qin.
    Computer Graphics Forum, 2020 (PG 2020).
    [Paper] [video] [source code] (CCF-B)

  3. Novel Hierarchical Strategies for SPH-centric Algorithms on GPGPU[J].
    Kemeng Huang, Zipeng Zhao, Chen Li, Changbo Wang, Hong Qin.
    Graphical Models, 2020.
    [Paper] [video] [source code] (CCF-B)

  4. A General Novel Parallel Framework for SPH-centric Algorithms[J].
    Kemeng Huang, Jiming Ruan, Zipeng Zhao, Chen Li, Changbo Wang, Hong Qin.
    Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2019 (I3D 2019).
    [Paper] [video] [source code] (CCF-B)

TEACHING

  • Teaching Assistant, The University of Hong Kong
    - COMP3329 Computer game design and programming [Section 2A, 2022], Instructor: Dr. T.W. Chim

AWARDS

  • Image and Graphics Technology Challenge of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) 2023, Second Place
  • China National Scholarship 2019
  • China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2018, National First Prize
  • American Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2016, Honorable Mention
  • China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2015, National First Prize

EXPERIENCES

  • Visiting PhD Student (Research Assistant) in computer science (computer graphics), Carnegie Mellon University. 2023.11-2024.11
  • PhD student in computer science (computer graphics and machine learning), Hong Kong University. 2022.9-(2025)
  • Research Associate (computer graphics), Centre for Transformative Garment Production. 2022.6-2022.9
  • Research Assistant (computer graphics), Centre for Transformative Garment Production (Hong Kong University Group). 2021.6-2022.6
  • Research Engineer (computer graphics), Koolab, Kujiale. 2020.8-2021.1
  • Internship in graphics algorithm (GPU optimization & computer graphics), Intel. 2019.3-2019.8
  • M.Phi. in Software Engineering (computer graphics), East China Normal University. 2017.9-2020.7
  • Visiting Student in computer science (computer graphics), The College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University. 2016.10-2017.6
  • Internship in computer science (computer graphics), State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University. 2015.7-2017.6
  • B.Eng. in Software Engineering (computer graphics), Zhejiang University of Technology. 2013.9-2017.7

INTERESTS

painting, basketball, travel, photography, films, fishing and farming…Recently, I have developed a liking for cooking.

CONTACT ME

kmhuang@connect.hku.hk
kemengh@andrew.cmu.edu
KMHuang819@gmail.com

unsplash-logoHometown: Taishun County (This place is extraordinarily beautiful; I highly recommend visiting.), Zhejiang Province, China