About Me

Publications

* indicates equal contributions. See my Google Scholar page for an up-to-date list.

Second-Order Finite Elements for Deformable Surfaces

Qiqin Le, Yitong Deng, Jiamu Bu, Bo Zhu, Tao Du. SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 (Conference track)

[Project] [Paper]

Learning Preconditioners for Conjugate Gradient PDE Solvers

Yichen Li, Peter Yichen Chen, Tao Du, Wojciech Matusik. ICML 2023

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv]

Learning Neural Constitutive Laws from Motion Observations for Generalizable PDE Dynamics

Pingchuan Ma, Peter Yichen Chen, Bolei Deng, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tao Du, Chuang Gan, Wojciech Matusik. ICML 2023

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

DexDeform: Dexterous Deformable Object Manipulation with Human Demonstrations and Differentiable Physics

Sizhe Li*, Zhiao Huang*, Tao Chen, Tao Du, Hao Su, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan. ICLR 2023

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

Sim2Real for Soft Robotic Fish via Differentiable Simulation

John Z. Zhang, Yu Zhang, Pingchuan Ma, Elvis Nava, Tao Du, Philip Arm Wojciech Matusik, Robert K. Katzschmann. IROS 2022

[Paper] [arXiv]

Automatic Co-Design of Aerial Robots Using a Graph Grammar

Allan Zhao, Tao Du, Jie Xu, Josie Hughes, Juan Salazar, Pingchuan Ma, Wei Wang, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik. IROS 2022

[Paper]

Fluidic Topology Optimization with an Anisotropic Mixture Model

Yifei Li, Tao Du, Sangeetha Grama Srinivasan, Kui Wu, Bo Zhu, Eftychios Sifakis, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2022 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv]

Fast Aquatic Swimmer Optimization with Differentiable Projective Dynamics and Neural Network Hydrodynamic Models

Elvis Nava, John Z. Zhang, Mike Yan Michelis, Tao Du, Pingchuan Ma, Benjamin F. Grewe, Wojciech Matusik, Robert K. Katzschmann, ICML 2022

[Paper] [arXiv]

DiffCloth: Differentiable Cloth Simulation with Dry Frictional Contact

Yifei Li, Tao Du, Kui Wu, Jie Xu, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2022 (SIGGRAPH 2022)

[Project] [arXiv]

RISP: Rendering-Invariant State Predictor with Differentiable Simulation and Rendering for Cross-Domain Parameter Estimation

Pingchuan Ma*, Tao Du*, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Wojciech Matusik, Chuang Gan. ICLR 2022 (Oral)

[Project] [Paper]

Contact Points Discovery for Soft-Body Manipulations with Differentiable Physics

Sizhe Li*, Zhiao Huang*, Tao Du, Hao Su, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan. ICLR 2022 (Spotlight)

[Project] [Paper]

DiffPD: Differentiable Projective Dynamics

Tao Du, Kui Wu, Pingchuan Ma, Sebastien Wah, Andrew Spielberg, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2022 (SIGGRAPH 2022)

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Slides]

Dynamic Visual Reasoning by Learning Differentiable Physics Models from Video and Language

Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen, Tao Du, Ping Luo, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan. NeurIPS 2021

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

Advanced Soft Robot Modeling in ChainQueen

Andrew Spielberg, Tao Du, Yuanming Hu, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik. Robotica 2021

[Paper]

Fusion 360 Gallery: A Dataset and Environment for Programmatic CAD Reconstruction

Karl D.D. Willis, Yewen Pu, Jieliang Luo, Hang Chu, Tao Du, Joseph G. Lambourne, Armando Solar-Lezama, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2021 (SIGGRAPH 2021)

[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

DiffAqua: A Differentiable Computational Design Pipeline for Soft Underwater Swimmers with Shape Interpolation

Pingchuan Ma, Tao Du, John Z. Zhang, Kui Wu, Andrew Spielberg, Robert K. Katzschmann, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2021 (SIGGRAPH 2021)

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

Underwater Soft Robot Modeling and Control with Differentiable Simulation

Tao Du*, Josie Hughes*, Sebastien Wah, Wojciech Matusik, Daniela Rus. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021 (RoboSoft 2021)

[Project] [Paper] [Code] [Hardware] [Poster]

PlasticineLab: A Soft-Body Manipulation Benchmark with Differentiable Physics

Zhiao Huang, Yuanming Hu, Tao Du, Siyuan Zhou, Hao Su, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan. ICLR 2021 (Spotlight)

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

Functional Optimization of Fluidic Devices with Differentiable Stokes Flow

Tao Du, Kui Wu, Andrew Spielberg, Wojciech Matusik, Bo Zhu, Eftychios Sifakis. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2020 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)

[Project] [Paper] [Code] [Slides]

Efficient Continuous Pareto Exploration in Multi-Task Learning

Pingchuan Ma*, Tao Du*, Wojciech Matusik. ICML 2020

[Project] [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Talk] [Slides]

Learning-in-the-Loop Optimization: End-to-End Control and Co-Design of Soft Robots through Learned Deep Latent Representations

Andrew Spielberg, Allan Zhao, Yuanming Hu, Tao Du, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik. NeurIPS 2019

[Paper]

Learning to Fly: Computational Controller Design for Hybrid UAVs with Reinforcement Learning

Jie Xu, Tao Du, Michael Foshey, Beichen Li, Bo Zhu, Adriana Schulz, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2019 (SIGGRAPH 2019)

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

InverseCSG: Automatic Conversion of 3D Models to CSG Trees

Tao Du, Jeevana Priya Inala, Yewen Pu, Andrew Spielberg, Adriana Schulz, Daniela Rus, Armando Solar-Lezama, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2018 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2018)

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

Computational Multicopter Design

Tao Du, Adriana Schulz, Bo Zhu, Bernd Bickel, Wojciech Matusik. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2016 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2016)

[Project] [Paper] [Code (design)] [Code (control)] [Hardware]

Convolutional Wasserstein Distances: Efficient Optimal Transportation on Geometric Domains

Justin Solomon, Fernando de Goes, Gabriel Peyré, Marco Cuturi, Adrian Butscher, Andy Nguyen, Tao Du, Leonidas Guibas. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2015 (SIGGRAPH 2015)

[Paper] [Code]

Thesis

Differentiable Simulation Methods for Robotic Agent Design

Ph.D. thesis

[Thesis] [Video]

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