Ana Dodik Social Graphics
PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL. Building human-centered 3D technologies to simplify artist workflows and expand creative control. Approaching graphics as applied mathematics and system design viewed through a social and humanist lens. My work draws on techniques such as differential geometry and differential equations, machine learning, low-level GPU programming, human-computer interaction, and algorithmic fairness.
MIT Presidential Fellow, Mathworks Fellow, Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholar at MIT. Before MIT, I was a computer vision engineer at Meta working on virtual presence, and before that I spent a year at Disney Research Studios working on path tracing research. I hold a Master's degree from ETH Zurich and a Bacherlor's degree from TU Wien.
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- SGP Course on Differentiable Geometry Processing! on Jun 30 2026
- Talk at the Generalized Barycentric Coordinates Minisymposium. on Jun 8 2026
- Tangent Blow-Ups accepted to SGP! on May 25 2026
- Inverse Geometry Processing and Fast Sparse Solvers asccepted to SIGGRAPH 2026! on Apr 29 2026
- Synthetic Sociality poster at SERC scholar showcase. on Apr 23 2026
- Critical Labor History of Generative Models asccepted to SIGGRAPH Talks 2026! on Apr 21 2026
- Meschers poster at NeurReps, NeurIPS 2026. on Dec 7th 2025
- Invited talk at Yale Computer Graphics Seminar. on Nov 4 2025
- Robust Biharmonic Skinning accepted to TOG! on Oct 14 2025
- I became a Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholar! on Sep 24 2025
- Invited panelist at WiGRAPH lunch! on Aug 13 2025
- Join our "Countering Racial Bias in Computer Graphics" BoF at SIGGRAPH! on Aug 12 2025
- Meschers to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2025! on Aug 11 2025
- Talk at Dartmouth College. on Jul 17 2025
- Invited panelist on ethics in generative AI at the MIT AI Film Hack. on Feb 16 2025
- Invited talk at the University of Chicago. on Oct 8 2024
- Supported by the Mathworks Fellowship. Jun 28 2024
- Invited talk at the Brown Visual Computing Seminar. on May 3 2024
- Talk at MIT's Visual Computing Seminar on Apr 16 2024
- Variational Barycentric Coordinates accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia! on Sep 13 2023
- Gave a talk at the Geometry Workshop in
ObergurglInnsbruck 2023 on Aug 28 2023 - I will be presenting at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS 2022. on Nov 28 2022
- I gave a guest lecture at UNC. on Nov 22 2022
- I was awarded MIT's Presidential Fellowship and will start my PhD in July 2022. on Mar 24 2022
Publications
Synthetic Sociality: How Generative Models Privatize the Social Fabric
Ana Dodik , Moira WeigelPreprint, 2026
Iskra: A System for Inverse Geometry Processing
Ana Dodik , Ahmed H. Mahmoud , Justin SolomonSIGGRAPH (Journal Track), 2026
Fast Sparse Matrix Permutation for Mesh-Based Direct Solvers
Behrooz Zarebavani* , Ahmed H. Mahmoud* , Ana Dodik , Changcheng Yuan , Serban D. Porumbescu , John D. Owens , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Justin SolomonSIGGRAPH, 2026
Robust Biharmonic Skinning Using Geometric Fields
Ana Dodik , Vincent Sitzmann , Justin Solomon , Oded SteinTransactions on Graphics, 2025
Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects
Ana Dodik , Isabella Yu , Kartik Chandra , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Joshua Tenenbaum , Vincent Sitzmann , Justin SolomonSIGGRAPH (Journal Track), 2025
Variational Barycentric Coordinates
Ana Dodik , Oded Stein , Vincent Sitzmann , Justin SolomonSIGGRAPH Asia (Journal Track), 2023
Sex and Gender in the Computer Graphics Research Literature
Ana Dodik* , Silvia Sellán* , Theodore Kim , Amanda Phillips , (*joint first authors)SIGGRAPH Talk, 2022
Path Guiding Using A Spatio-Directional Mixture Model
Ana Dodik , Marios Papas , Cengiz Öztireli , Thomas MüllerComputer Graphics Forum, 2021