Adriana Schulz

Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Office: CSE2 209 (Gates Center)
adriana [at] cs.washington.edu

I am an assistant professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where I am a member of the Computer Graphics Group (GRAIL). I am also co-director of the Digital Fabrication Center at UW (DFab) and the director of WiGRAPH.

My research group creates design tools and systems that will revolutionize how we build physical artifacts. A central challenge for design tools in manufacturing is the need to simultaneously nurture the creative ability to conceive novel designs and the analytical capacity to critically evaluate and optimize functionality and production. My group tackles this challenge through innovative solutions that are grounded in the fundamentals of geometry processing and combine insights from machine learning and programming languages.

My research has been recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship , MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 award, an NSF CAREER award, and faculty awards from Google, Amazon, and Intel, among others. I am honored to receive the 2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.

I'm excited to work with highly motivatived students! I'm moving to Brown Fall 2025, so please read this if you are interested in joining my group.
I'm actively looking for a new postdoc to co-advise with Jen Mankoff, please read this for more details.

Publications

Computational Design of Dense Servers for Immersion Cooling

[Project Page]

M. Kodnongbua, Z. Englhardt, R. Bianchini, R. Fonseca, A. Lebeck, D. Berger, V. Iyer, F. Kazhamiaka, A. Schulz,

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia) 2024

Understanding and Supporting Debugging Workflows in CAD

[Paper] [Video]

F. Hahnlein, G. Bernstein, A. Schulz

UIST 2024

WasteBanned: Supporting zero waste fashion design through linked edits

[ ACM ]

R. Zhang, S. Mueller, G. Bernstein, A. Schulz, M. Leake

UIST 2024

FabHacks: Transform Everyday Objects into Home Hacks Leveraging a Solver-aided DSL

[ arXiv ]

Y. Mei, B. Jones, D. Cascaval, J. Mankoff, E. Vouga, A. Schulz

ACM Symposium of Computational Fabrication 2024

Computational Illusion Knitting

[Coming Soon!]

A. Zhu, Y. Mei, B. Jones, Z. Tatlock, A. Schulz,

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2024

DeltaLCA: Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment for Electronics Design

[arXiv]

Z. Zhang, F. Hähnlein, Y. Mei, Z. Englhardt, S. Patel, A. Schulz, V. Iyer

Ubicomp, 2024

Zero-shot CAD Program Re-Parameterization for Interactive Manipulation

[arXiv]

M. Kodnongbua, B. Jones, M. Ahmad, V. Kim, A. Schulz,

Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2023

How Can Large Language Models Help Humans in Design and Manufacturing?

[arXiv]

L. Makatura, M. Foshey, B. Wang, F. HähnLein, P. Ma, B. Deng, M. Tjandrasuwita,
A. Spielberg, C. Owens, P. Chen, A. Zhao, A. Zhu, W. Norton, E. Gu, J. Jacob, Y. Li,
A. Schulz, W. Matusik

Toward Sub-gram Helicopters: Designing a Miniaturized Flybar for Passive Stability

[coming soon!]

K. Johnson*, V. Arroyos, R. Villanueva, A. Schulz S. Fuller, V. Iyer

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023

B-rep Matching for Collaborating Across CAD Systems

[PDF]

B. Jones, J. Noeckel, M. Kodnongbua, I. Baran, A. Schulz

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2023

Generative Design of Sheet Metal Structures

[PDF]

A. Barda, G. Tevet A. Schulz , A. Bermano

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2023

A Lineage-Based Referencing DSL for Computer-Aided Design

[PDF]

D. Cascaval, R. Bodik, A. Schulz

Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2023

Self-Supervised Representation Learning for CAD

[ArXiv]

B. Jones, M. Hu, M. Kodnongbua, V. Kim, A. Schulz

IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) , 2023

Neurosymbolic Models for Computer Graphics

[ArXiv]

D. Ritchie, P. Guerrero, K. Jones, N. Mitra, A. Schulz, K. Willis, J. Wu

Eurographics STAR 2023

Mates2Motion: Learning How Mechanical CAD Assemblies Work

[ArXiv]

J. Noekel, B. Jones, K. Willis, B. Curless, A. Schulz A. Schulz

ICML Workshop on ML For Computational Design (2022)

Computational Design of Passive Grippers

[Project Page]

M. Kodnongbua, I. Good, Y. Lou, J. Lipton, A. Schulz A. Schulz

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2022

Differentiable 3D CAD Programs for Bidirectional Editing

[ArXiv]

D. Cascaval, M. Shalah, P. Quinn, R. Bodik, M. Agrawala, Adriana Schulz A. Schulz

Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2022)

Co-Optimization of Design and Fabrication Plans for Carpentry

[ArXiv]

H. Zhao, M. Willsey, A. Zhu, C. Nandi, Z. Tatlock, J. Solomon, A. Schulz

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2022

Computational Design of Knit Templates

[pdf]

B. Jones, Y. Mei, T. Gotfrid, H. Zhao, J. Mankoff, A. Schulz

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022

AutoMate: A Dataset and Learning Approach for Automatic Mating of CAD Assemblies

[ArXiv]

[Project Page and Code/Data]

B. Jones, D. Hildreth, D. Chen, I. Baran, V. Kim, A. Schulz

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2021

Robotic Jigsaw: A Non-Holonomic Cutting Robot and Path Planning Algorithm

[pdf]

H. Zhao, Y. Talwekar, W. Lan, C. Sharma, D. Rus, A. Schulz, J. Lipton

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021

Rewrite Rule Inference Using Equality Saturation

[coming soon]

C. Nandi, M. Willsey, A. Zhu, B. Saiki, Y. Wang, A. Anderson, A. Schulz, D. Grossman, Z. Tatlock

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (OOPSLA), 2021

Fabrication-Aware Reverse Engineering for Carpentry

[project page]

J. Noekel, H. Zhao, B. Curless A. Schulz

Computer Graphics Forum (SGP), 2021

Pareto Gamuts: Exploring Optimal Designs Across Varying Contexts

[project page]

L. Makatura, M. Guo, A. Schulz, J. Solomon, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2021

VDAC: Volume Decompose-and-Carve for Subtractive Manufacturing

[project page]

A. Mahdavi-Amiri, F. Yu, H. Zhao, A. Schulz, H. Zhang

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2020

Carpentry Compiler

[project page]

C. Wu, H. Zhao, C. Nandi, J. Lipton, Z. Tatlock, A. Schulz

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2019

Computational Fabrication

[project page]

W. Matusik and A. Schulz

SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses

Learning To Fly: Computational Controller Design For Hybrid UAVs With Reinforcement Learning

[project page]

J. Xu, T. Du, M. Foshey, B. Li, B. Zhu, A. Schulz, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2019

InverseCSG: Automatic Conversion of 3D Models to CSG Trees

[pdf]

[project page]

T. Du, J. Inala, Y. Pu, A. Spielberg, A. Schulz, D. Rus, A. Solar-Lezama, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2018

PhD Thesis: Computational Design for the Next Manufacturing Revolution

[pdf]

A. Schulz, Advisor: Wojciech Matusik

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018

Interactive Exploration of Design Trade-Offs

[project page]

[pdf]

A. Schulz, H. Wang., E. Grinspun, J. Solomon, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2018

Carpentry for Mass Customization

[project page]

J. Lipton*, A. Schulz*, A. Spielberg, L. Trueba, W. Matusik, D. Rus
(*equal contribution)

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018

Interactive Robogami

[project page]

[pdf]

A. Schulz*, C. Sung*, A. Spielberg, W. Zhao, Y. Cheng, E. Grinspun, D. Rus, W. Matusik
(*equal contribution)

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2017

Interactive Design Space Exploration and Optimization for CAD Models

[project page]

[pdf]

[suplemental material]

A. Schulz, J. Xu, B. Zhu, C. Zheng, E. Grinspun, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2017

Retrieval on Parametric Shape Collections

[project page][pdf]

A. Schulz, A. Shamir, I. Baran, D. Levin, P. Sitthi-amorn, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2017

(presented at SIGGRAPH 2017)

Computational Multicopter Design

[project page][pdf]

T. Du, A. Schulz, B. Zhu, B. Bickel, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2016

Design and Fabrication by Example

[project page][pdf]

A. Schulz, A. Shamir, D. Levin, P. Sitthi-amorn, W. Matusik

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2014

ChoreoGraphics: An Authoring Tool for Dance Shows

[project page][pdf]

A. Schulz, W. Matusik, L. Velho

ACM SIGGRAPH (posters), 2011

Journal of Graphics Tools, 2014.

Compressive Sensing (Course and Book)

[project page][pdf]

A. Schulz, E. da Silva, L. Velho

27th Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium, IMPA, 2009

Mathematical Publications Collection, IMPA, 2010 – Second Edition

On The Empirical Rate-Distortion Performance of Compressive Sensing

[pdf]

A. Schulz, L. Velho, E. da Silva

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009

Teaching

Fall 2019: Computational Fabrication (CSE 556)
Spring 2019: Reseach Seminar: Geometry Processing (CSE 590-K)
Winter 2019: Special Topics in Computational Fabrication (CSE 599-J1)
Fall 2018: Computational Fabrication (CSE 556)

Group

Haisen Zhao (Postdoc)
Ben Jones (PhD Student)
James Nockel (PhD Student, co-advised with Brian Curless )
Yuxuan Mei (PhD Student)
Dalton Hildreth (PhD Student, co-advised with Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman )
Amy Zhu (PhD Student, co-advised with Zachary Tatlock )
Dan Cascaval (PhD Student, co-advised with Rastislav Bodik )

Alumni
Chenming Wu (visting PhD Student from Tsinghua University)

Bio

I received my Ph.D. degree in June 2018 from the Computer Science Department at MIT, where I was advised by Professor Wojciech Matusik. During my PhD, I spent time at Columbia University working with Professor Eitan Grinspun, and, at MIT, I also worked closely with Daniela Rus, developing computational tools for robot design. Before starting my PhD, I obtained a Master's in Mathematics from IMPA, where I worked with Professor Luiz Velho and a Bachelor in Electronics Engineering from UFRJ, where I worked with Professor Eduardo da Silva.