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 Zoë Marschner CSD Courses Taught 15458 - Spring, 2025 15768 - Spring, 2025 15327 - Fall, 2024 15627 - Fall, 2024 15860 - Fall, 2024 15858 - Spring, 2024 15458 - Spring, 2024 Research 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 Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest 2025 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 44(4): Baktash H, Sharp N, Zhou Q, Crane K, Jacobson A Journal Article Rectangular Surface Parameterization 2025 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 44(4): Corman E, Crane K Preprint Solving partial differential equations in participating media 2025 Miller B, Sawhney R, Crane K, Gkioulekas I Journal Article Solving partial differential equations in participating media 2025 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 44(4): Miller B, Sawhney R, Crane K, Gkioulekas I Conference State of the Art in Grid-Free Monte Carlo Methods for Partial Differential Equations 2025 1-8 Sawhney R, Miller B, Gkioulekas I, Crane K
Journal Article Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest 2025 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 44(4): Baktash H, Sharp N, Zhou Q, Crane K, Jacobson A
Journal Article Rectangular Surface Parameterization 2025 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 44(4): Corman E, Crane K
Preprint Solving partial differential equations in participating media 2025 Miller B, Sawhney R, Crane K, Gkioulekas I
Journal Article Solving partial differential equations in participating media 2025 • ACM Transactions on Graphics • 44(4): Miller B, Sawhney R, Crane K, Gkioulekas I
Conference State of the Art in Grid-Free Monte Carlo Methods for Partial Differential Equations 2025 1-8 Sawhney R, Miller B, Gkioulekas I, Crane K
