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Emilie Yu
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Postdoctoral researcher - Expressive Computation Lab @ UCSB http://em-yu.github.io
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · 10d
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · 10d
Super proud to have been part of this work led by Sam Bourgault and Alejandro Aponte @ expressive computation lab

With WORM, we propose a new way to program cobot manufacturing actions through skilled manipulation and procedural repetitions

Checkout the paper and demo at #UIST2025
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Ruben Wiersma @rubenwiersma.nl · Aug 18
Our fast forward for SIGGRAPH 2025. Keep SIGGRAPH weird! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYel...
Fast Forward SIGGRAPH 2025 - Uncertainty for SVBRDF Acquisition using Frequency Analysis
YouTube video by Ruben Wiersma
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Aug 13
Today we’ll be showing clay printing and artifacts from our research again at our course on Computational Craft 2-5pm @ #SIGGRAPH2025
If you can’t make it to the whole thing, demos will be 4.30-5pm
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Aug 8
Packed this little guy up for #SIGGRAPH2025
Come to our course on Computational Craft, Wed 2-5 to see it in action!

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
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WiGRAPH @wigraph.bsky.social · Jul 30
Join us at the 2025 Berthouzoz Women in Research Lunch at #SIGGRAPH to celebrate the past, present, and future of WiGRAPH!

📅 Aug 13, 12:30–2:00pm
📍 Vancouver, Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront Ballroom
RSVP & details:
🔗 www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...
#WiGRAPH #Graphics #SIGGRAPH2025
Berthouzoz Women in Research Lunch
The Berthouzoz Women in Research Lunch is a networking event for researchers, faculty, and students. Named in honor of Floraine Berthouzoz, who began this lunch as an informal gathering, the event con...
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Aug 4
If you are interested in joining a lively and supportive discussion space about sustainability & graphics research, please join our birds of a feather event on Tue Aug. 12 - 4PM, in East Building, Room 9 🌱

Co-organized with Felix Hähnlein, Chenxi Liu, Maria Larsson, and @rubenwiersma.nl
Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Aug 4
We're looking forward to presenting our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 on Sunday Aug. 10 - 11AM, in West Building, Rooms 301-305!
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Jun 1
Ever wondered how badly we're all addicted to buying new GPUs in graphics labs?

Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research"

with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein
MOTIVATION Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are at the core of Computer Graphics research. These chips are critical for rendering images, processing geometric data, and training machine learning models. Yet, the production and disposal of GPUs emits CO2 and results in toxic e-waste [1]. METHOD We surveyed 888 papers presented at SIGGRAPH (premier conference for computer graphics research), from 2018 to 2024, and systematically gathered GPU models cited in the text. We then contextualize the hardware reported in papers with publicly available data of consumers’ hardware [2, 3]. REFERENCES [1] CRAWFORD, KATE. The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021. [2] STEAM. Steam Hardware Survey. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey [3] BLENDER. Blender Open Data. https://opendata.blender.org
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Jun 2
Thanks for sharing, this is exactly the kind of comments that we hope to address by raising this issue
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Jun 2
We will share our slides afterwards. Our short paper can be found here eliemichel.github.io/sustainable-...
Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Jun 1
We are looking forward to opening up the discussion to the community!

Please join us in Vancouver >> s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
RECOMMENDATIONS For Authors: Report hardware used in papers. Consider mid-to-low-end hardware as further opportunities to optimize algorithms. For Institutions: Develop performance metrics that incentivize using low-end hardware. Develop supra-local testing infrastructures with a range of heterogeneous, multi-generational hardware. OPEN DISCUSSION By developing and disseminating methods optimized to work on new hardware, are we actively encouraging premature hardware obsolescence among end-users? By necessitating compute clusters to run our algorithms (the 2nd most-cited GPU is a data center GPU), are we consolidating the dependency of individual users on privatized “cloud” services?
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Jun 1
Our quantitative analysis of papers let us question what GPUs people use for graphics research, and how that compares to general consumers' hardware.
We find that GPUs used in research papers (white dots in graph) are consistently higher-end GPUs. 87% of GPUs reported in research papers (above blue line) are available to less than 20% of the consumer-level user base at publication time. A stacked bar chart shows GPU usage among the general user-base, and white dots represent GPUs used in research papers.
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Jun 1
Ever wondered how badly we're all addicted to buying new GPUs in graphics labs?

Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research"

with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein
MOTIVATION Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are at the core of Computer Graphics research. These chips are critical for rendering images, processing geometric data, and training machine learning models. Yet, the production and disposal of GPUs emits CO2 and results in toxic e-waste [1]. METHOD We surveyed 888 papers presented at SIGGRAPH (premier conference for computer graphics research), from 2018 to 2024, and systematically gathered GPU models cited in the text. We then contextualize the hardware reported in papers with publicly available data of consumers’ hardware [2, 3]. REFERENCES [1] CRAWFORD, KATE. The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021. [2] STEAM. Steam Hardware Survey. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey [3] BLENDER. Blender Open Data. https://opendata.blender.org
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · May 14
Congrats on the great work! I will see you in Vancouver then?? 🫶
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Nicolas Violante Grezzi @nviolante.bsky.social · May 13
Excited to share our paper, "Splat and Replace: 3D Reconstruction with Repetitive Elements", which I'll be presenting at #SIGGRAPH2025!

Project page: repo-sam.inria.fr/nerphys/spla...

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Ana Dodik @geometry.gay · Apr 14
🚨🚨🚨 Apply now to be part of the 2025 cohort of WiGRAPH rising stars! 🚨🚨🚨

Rising Stars is a mentoring program with workshops co-located with SIGGRAPH for students and post-docs of under-represented genders in graphics research.

Deadline for submissions: Apr 18

www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...
Call for Rising Stars Applications
The Rising Stars in Computer Graphics program is designed to bring new perspectives to computer graphics research. This is a two-year program that will be co-located with SIGGRAPH 2025 and SIGGRAPH 20...
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Emilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · Mar 20
Apply now to be part of the 2025 cohort of rising starts in computer graphics 🌟 This is a mentoring program with workshops co-located with Siggraph, for students and post-docs of under-represented genders in CG
www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...

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Call for Rising Stars Applications
The Rising Stars in Computer Graphics program is designed to bring new perspectives to computer graphics research. This is a two-year program that will be co-located with SIGGRAPH 2025 and SIGGRAPH 20...
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WiGRAPH @wigraph.bsky.social · Mar 17
Applications are open for the 2025 Rising Stars program!

Apply here:

www.wigraph.org/programs/ris...
Rising Stars
Launched in 2022, the Rising Stars in Computer Graphics program is designed to bring new perspectives to computer graphics research. This is a two-year program tailored for researchers who expect to b...
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Élie Michel @elie-michel.bsky.social · Dec 3
🏆 So honored that our paper received the Honorable Mention #Award at #SIGGRAPHAsia!

I really like this paper BTW, it is about procedural #SignedDistanceFields, a simple idea to #differentiate them and thus provide #DirectManipulation ✨

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Picture of a stage at SIGGRAPH Asia, where we receive the Honorable Mention Award
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