Jiayi (Eris) Zhang 张嘉懿 (original) (raw)
Hi! I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Doug James. I also work closely with Danny Kaufman at Adobe. My research has been generously supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship, a Roblox Graduate Fellowship and an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.
I have a broad interest in computer graphics, including physics simulation, geometry processing, numerical optimization, and spatial intelligence. Centered on multiscale modeling and simulation, I develop algorithms, models, and tools that enhance human productivity and creativity in science, engineering, and creative authoring workflows.
Previously, I completed my undergraduate studies in computer science and mathematics at the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Alec Jacobson. During my time there, I was fortunate to do research with Profs. Marc Alexa, David Levin, Fanny Chevalier and Ken Jackson on topics spanning computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and numerical analysis. I also had several wonderful internships at Adobe Research and NVIDIA.
Email: eriszhan [at] stanford [dot] edu
Job Market I’m on the 2025-26 academic job market and open to related industry roles. Feel free to get in touch!
Progressive Dynamics++: A Framework for Stable, Continuous, and Consistent Animation Across Resolution and Time
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH North America), 2025
Level-of-Detail for Geometry Processing and Simulation
Jiayi Eris Zhang
and Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu
ACM SIGGRAPH North America Course, 2025
Progressive Dynamics for Cloth and Shell Animation
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Doug L. James, and Danny M. Kaufman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH North America), 2024
Progressive Shell Quasistatics for Unstructured Meshes
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Jérémie Dumas, Yun Fei, Alec Jacobson, Doug L. James, and Danny M. Kaufman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2023
Fast Complementary Dynamics via Skinning Eigenmodes
Otman Benchekroun,
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Eitan Grinspun, Yi Zhou, and Alec Jacobson
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH North America), 2023
Progressive Simulation for Cloth Quasistatics
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Jérémie Dumas, Yun Fei, Alec Jacobson, Doug L. James, and Danny M. Kaufman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2022
✨ Selected for the back cover of the journal proceedings
Surface Multigrid via Intrinsic Prolongation
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu,
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Mirela Ben-Chen, and Alec Jacobson
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH North America), 2021
Fast Updates for Least-Squares Rotational Alignment
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Alec Jacobson, and Marc Alexa
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 2021
Complementary Dynamics
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Seungbae Bang, David I.W. Levin, and Alec Jacobson
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020
DataQuilt: Extracting Visual Elements from Images to Craft Pictorial Visualizations
Jiayi Eris Zhang
, Nicole Sultanum, Anastasia Bezerianos, and Fanny Chevalier
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020