Mingrui Wang

Mingrui Wang

CS PhD Student

Texas A&M University

Biography

I am a first-year PhD student at TAMU CSE and Aggie Graphics Group, advised by Prof. Shinjiro Sueda. I received my bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics from St. Olaf College. My research interest primarily lies on physically-based simulation, which focuses on exploring high-fidelity models that yield accurate dynamics and implementing high-performance methods that construct realistic simulations.

Interests
  • Computer Graphics
  • Physics-based Simulation
  • Deep Learning
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Texas A&M University, 2024 - Present

  • B.S. in Mathematics and Physics

    St. Olaf College, 2017 - 2021

Projects

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Real-time Skirt Simulation of Animated Character with Extended Position Based Dynamics on GPU
I use extended position-based dynamics to implement a real-time cloth simulation on an animated character.
Real-time Skirt Simulation of Animated Character with Extended Position Based Dynamics on GPU

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Biology Dept., St. Olaf College
Research Assistant
April 2020 – April 2021 Minnesota

Responsibilities include:

  • Set up an environment for recording flies’ behavior and use transfer learning to train a network on base videos, then repurpose the learned features to the target videos.
  • Adapt the algorithms used in DeepLabCut to lower the running time for training machines with low frame rate videos
 
 
 
 
 
Physics Dept., St. Olaf College
Student Researcher
February 2020 – August 2020 Minnesota
  • Investigated microscopic friction between two sliding surfaces at high speeds.
  • Designed modules to automate modeling force-displacement loop of contacts vs changes in the resonance of a quartz crystal caused by frictional forces.
  • Presented in Midstates Consortium Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science Research Symposium.
 
 
 
 
 
MSCS Dept., St. Olaf College
Student Researcher
September 2019 – December 2019 Minnesota
  • Proved conditions under which metacyclic p-groups are isoclinic.
  • Conjectured that the automorphism groups of Schulte metacyclic p-groups are isoclinic, produced data implying that the conjecture might be true.
  • Presented in Northfield Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium.

Contact

Feel free to contact me through email or in person!

  • sueraywang@tamu.edu
  • 435 Nagle St, College Station, TX 77843
  • Enter L.F. Peterson Building and take the stairs/elevator to Office 402 on Floor 4
  • MTF 10:00 to 17:00