Keenan Crane Associate Professor Website CMU Scholars Page ORCiD Office 215 Smith Hall Email kmcrane@cs.cmu.edu Phone (412) 268-1120 Department Computer Science Department Administrative Support Person Christina Contreras Research Interests Graphics Scientific Computing Advisees Nicole Feng Olga Gutan Zoë Marschner CSD Courses Taught 15627 - Fall, 2024 15327 - Fall, 2024 15858 - Spring, 2024 15458 - Spring, 2024 15860 - Fall, 2024 Research/Teaching Statement My research draws on insights from differential geometry and computer science to develop fundamental algorithms for working with real-world geometric data. I received my bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my PhD from the California Institute of Technology. My most recent work was supported by an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. Publications Journal Article A Heat Method for Generalized Signed Distance 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(4): Feng N, Crane K Preprint Differential Walk on Spheres 2024 Miller B, Sawhney R, Crane K, Gkioulekas I Journal Article I❤MESH: A DSL for Mesh Processing 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(5):1-17 Li Y, Kamil S, Crane K, Jacobson A, Gingold Y Conference Minkowski Penalties: Robust Differentiable Constraint Enforcement for Vector Graphics 2024 • Proceedings - SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers Minarčík J, Estep S, Ni W, Crane K Journal Article Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(4): Gillespie M, Yang D, Botsch M, Crane K
Journal Article A Heat Method for Generalized Signed Distance 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(4): Feng N, Crane K
Journal Article I❤MESH: A DSL for Mesh Processing 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(5):1-17 Li Y, Kamil S, Crane K, Jacobson A, Gingold Y
Conference Minkowski Penalties: Robust Differentiable Constraint Enforcement for Vector Graphics 2024 • Proceedings - SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers Minarčík J, Estep S, Ni W, Crane K
Journal Article Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions 2024 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 43(4): Gillespie M, Yang D, Botsch M, Crane K