Publications

Beyond Kirchhoff–Love: A Volumetric Approach to Thin-Shell Mechanics

Huanyu Chen, Yumeng He, Jernej Barbič

ACM Transactions on Graphics 45(6) (SIGGRAPH Asia 2026)

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ArticulateArena: A Metric for Articulated Kinematics

Yumeng He, Yongfei She, Huanyu Chen, Chun Yuan, Peihao Li, Joseph Masterjohn, Yin Yang, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang

arXiv preprint 2609.33931, 2026

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Weak Nonlinearity and Linear Equalization for Isotropic Hyperelastic Materials

Huanyu Chen, Jernej Barbič

Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Computer Animation 2026)

Best Presentation Award (presented by Jernej Barbič)

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ANIME-Rod: Adjustable Nonlinear Isotropic Materials for Elastic Rods

Huanyu Chen, Jiahao Wen, Jernej Barbič

ACM Transactions on Graphics 44(4) (SIGGRAPH 2025)

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Capturing Animation-Ready Isotropic Materials Using Systematic Poking

Huanyu Chen, Danyong Zhao, Jernej Barbič

ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(6) (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)

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Thesis

Eight meshes textured with a checkerboard through their bijective spherical maps

Efficient Bijective Spherical Parameterizations (高效无翻转球面参数化)

Huanyu Chen; advisor: Ligang Liu

B.Sc. thesis, University of Science and Technology of China, 2021

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Talks

Isotropic Distortion Energies: One Machine for Parameterization, Deformation, and Dynamics. Guest lecture, MATH 285J, UCLA, Oct. 2026. Slides & code
ANIME-Rod: Adjustable Nonlinear Isotropic Materials for Elastic Rods. Technical paper talk, ACM SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver, Aug. 2025.
Capturing Animation-Ready Isotropic Materials Using Systematic Poking. Technical paper talk, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, Sydney, Dec. 2023. Slides

Service and teaching

Reviewer: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Computer Graphics Forum, Pacific Graphics, Extreme Mechanics Letters, Visual Informatics.

Teaching assistant, USC: CSCI 520 Computer Animation and Simulation (Spring 2023, 2025, 2026), CSCI 570 Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2025), CSCI 350 Operating Systems (Fall 2024), CSCI 677 Advanced Computer Vision (Fall 2023).