Computational Design Group (CDG)

Investigating problems in digital fabrication and computer graphics.
Led by Adriana Schulz at Brown University.

Recent Publications

Incorporating Sustainability in Electronics Design: Obstacles and Opportunities

Incorporating Sustainability in Electronics Design: Obstacles and Opportunities

Zachary Englhardt, Felix Hähnlein, Yuxuan Mei, Tong Lin, Connor Masahiro Sun, Zhihan Zhang, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Vikram Iyer

In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

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WasteBanned: Supporting Zero Waste Fashion Design Through Linked Edits

WasteBanned: Supporting Zero Waste Fashion Design Through Linked Edits

Ruowang Zhang, Stefanie Mueller, Gilbert Louis Bernstein, Adriana Schulz, Mackenzie Leake

In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2024

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Computational Illusion Knitting

Computational Illusion Knitting

Amy Zhu, Yuxuan Mei, Benjamin Jones, Zachary Tatlock, Adriana Schulz

ACM Trans. Graph., Jul 2024

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Recent News

December 6, 2024

James Noeckel Defends PhD Thesis

Congratulations to James Noeckel on defending his PhD thesis titled: "Fabrication-Aware Reconstruction". He is joining Apple as a graphics software engineer.

July 30, 2024

Adriana Schulz Receives ACM Significant New Researcher Award 2024

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June 7, 2024

Ben Jones Defends PhD Thesis

Congratulations to Ben Jones on defending his PhD thesis titled: "Enabling AI in Computer Aided Design through Representations". He is joining MIT as a postdoctoral researcher.

Current Members

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Adriana Schulz

Principal Investigator

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Felix Hähnlein

Postdoctoral Researcher

2022 – Present

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Yuxuan Mei

PhD Student

2018 – Present

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Dan Cascaval

PhD Student

2018 – Present

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Amy Zhu

PhD Student

2019 – Present

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Milin Kodnongbua

PhD Student

2022 – Present

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Nat Hurtig

PhD Student

2024 – Present

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Jack Zhang

PhD Student

2024 – Present