About Me
I joined Dartmouth's Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor in Fall of 2014. My primary area of interest is structurally-informed geometry processing, especially applied to architectural geometry, computer-aided design, and 3D fabrication.
From 2011-2014 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich in the Institute for Visual Computing with Olga Sorkine-Hornung, I was supported by a Marie Curie/ETHZ Fellowship. I completed my PhD at MIT in Computer Graphics and Architecture. My thesis focused on modeling mechanics of masonry structures, advised by Fredo Durand and John Ochsendorf. My research was funded partially by the Canadian NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship. I received my MS in Design & Computation from MIT in 2006. My thesis research with Seth Teller focused on automatic interpretation of CAD drawings. I received my BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2004. My senior thesis was on high dynamic range images, under the direction of Sabry El-Hakim and Demetri Terzopoulos.
In my spare time I enjoy hiking, climbing, and playing the flute.
Teaching
Positions are available at my new lab in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College. I am actively recruiting motivated individuals for the PhD program, and at the Postdoc level. If you are interested in research in Computer Graphics, especially in the areas of fabrication and architectural geometry, please contact me.
Here is information on Graduate Admissions at Dartmouth and the Graduate Program in Computer Science.
Courses:
COSC 89/189 Topics in Applied Computer Science: Computational Fabrication (new, Fall 2014)
COSC 77/177 Computer Graphics (Spring 2015)
News
- 08.2014
- Our SIGGRAPH paper "Spin-It" featured on techcrunch, engadget, reddit and gizmodo
- 05.2014
- Our paper "Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects" is accepted to SIGGRAPH 2014
- 04.2014
- I will take on a faculty position at Dartmouth College in the Dept of Computer Science, starting September 2014
- 02.2014
- I will serve on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Courses Committee
- 01.2014
- This summer I will be pleased to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Aspects of Fabrication
- 01.2014
- I will serve on the International Program Committee of Pacific Graphics 2014
- 11.2013
- "Make It Stand" featured in Make magazine: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014
- 10.2013
- I gave a talk at UC Berkeley in the Visual Computing Lab Seminar series on Structurally-Informed Geometry
- 09.2013
- I will serve on the Papers Committee for Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014 to take place in London, UK
- 08.2013
- I will serve on the Program Committee for Graphics Interface 2014 to take place in Montreal, Canada
Publications
Assembling Self-Supporting Structures
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014
Mario Deuss, Daniele Panozzo, Emily Whiting, Yang Liu, Philippe Block, Olga Sorkine-Hornung & Mark Pauly
A Graph-based Approach for Discovery of Stable Deconstruction Sequences
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014
Lukas Beyeler, Jean-Charles Bazin & Emily Whiting
Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects
SIGGRAPH 2014
Moritz Baecher, Emily Whiting, Bernd Bickel & Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Make-It-Stand: Balancing Shapes for 3D Fabrication
SIGGRAPH 2013
Romain Prévost, Emily Whiting, Sylvain Lefebvre & Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Structural Optimization of 3D Masonry Buildings
SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Emily Whiting, Hijung Shin, Robert Wang, John Ochsendorf & Frédo Durand
Design Of Structurally-Sound Masonry Buildings Using 3D Static Analysis
PhD Thesis MIT 2011
Emily Whiting, Advisors: John Ochsendorf & Frédo Durand
Procedural Modeling of Structurally-Sound Masonry Buildings
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
Emily Whiting, John Ochsendorf & Frédo Durand
Digital Reconstruction and 4D Presentation through Time
SIGGRAPH 2008 (Talk)
Sabry El-Hakim, Jean-Francois Lapointe & Emily Whiting
Topology of Urban Environments
CAAD Futures 2007
Emily Whiting, Yoni Battat & Seth Teller
Constrained Planar Remeshing for Architecture
Graphics Interface 2007
Barbara Cutler & Emily Whiting
Detailed 3D Modelling of Castles
IJAC June 2007
Sabry El-Hakim, Lorenzo Gonzo, Francesca Voltolini, Stefano Girardi, Alessandro Rizzi, Fabio Remondino & Emily Whiting
Constrained Planar Remeshing for Architecture
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2006 (Poster)
Barbara Cutler & Emily Whiting
Geometric, Topological & Semantic Analysis of Multi-building Floor Plan Data
M.S. Thesis, MIT, Department of Architecture, May 2006
Supervisor: Seth Teller, Co-supervisor: Takehiko Nagakura, Reader: Axel Kilian (Thesis Prize)