Computational Design Group (CDG)
Investigating problems in digital fabrication and computer graphics.
Led by Adriana Schulz at Brown University.
Recent Publications
Design for Descent: What Makes a Shape Grammar Easy to Optimize?
Milin Kodnongbua, Zihan Zhang, Nicholas Sharp, Adriana Schulz
In SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, 2025
PatchUp: Interactive Patchwork Design for Scrap Fabric Upcycling
Yuxuan Mei, Lirong Que, Mackenzie Leake, Adriana Schulz
In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, Nov 2025
Living Sustainability: In-Context Interactive Environmental Impact Communication
Zhihan Zhang, Puvarin Thavikulwat, Alexander Le Metzger, Yuxuan Mei, Felix Hähnlein, Zachary Englhardt, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Tingyu Cheng, Vikram Iyer
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., Sep 2025
Polynomial-Time Program Equivalence for Machine Knitting
Nathan Hurtig, Jenny Han Lin, Thomas S. Price, Adriana Schulz, James McCann, Gilbert Louis Bernstein
Proc. ACM Program. Lang., Aug 2025
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
Recent News
May 14, 2025
Yuxuan Mei Defends PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Yuxuan Mei on defending his PhD thesis titled: "Design for Sustainable Fabrication". She is joining Wesleyan University as an Assistant Professor.
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.
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.
