Mikhail Bessmeltsev Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

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	Vectorization of Line Drawings via PolyVector Fields Mikhail Bessmeltsev and Justin Solomon [ArXiv]
	Isometry-Aware Preconditioning for Mesh Parameterization Sebastian Claici, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Scott Schaefer, and Justin Solomon SGP 2017, London [PDF]
	Gesture3D: Posing 3D Characters via Gesture Drawings Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Nicholas Vining, Alla Sheffer ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016) [PDF]  [website]  [acm]
	Recovering 3D Shape from Concept and Pose Drawings Mikhail Bessmeltsev PhD Thesis [PDF, 135Mb]  [PDF, lowres]
	Modeling Character Canvases from Cartoon Drawings Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Will Chang, Nicholas Vining, Alla Sheffer, Karan Singh AACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2016) [PDF]  [website]  [acm]
	Design-Driven Quadrangulation of Closed 3D Curves Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Caoyu Wang, Alla Sheffer, Karan Singh ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH ASIA 2012), Volume 31, Issue 5, December 2012 [PDF]  [website]  [acm]
	Digital Micrography Ron Maharik, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Alla Sheffer, Ariel Shamir and Nathan Carr ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011), Volume 30, Issue 4, July 2011 [PDF]  [website] [acm]

Other refereed contributions:
Бессмельцев М.В., Войтишек А.В. Модификации геометрических программных модулей, связанные с построением моделируемых вероятностных плотностей // Вычислительные технологии. 2011. Т. 16, № 4. С. 19–36.

Bessmeltsev M., Moving Adaptive Mesh Generation on Surface in 3D Space Based on Self-Organization // ACTA-Press, Proceedings (628) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing 2008, pp. 143-149

Bessmeltsev M., Discrete-Stochastic Method of Moving Adaptive Mesh Generation in 3D // In Proc. International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Geophysics "MMG-2008"

Nechaeva O., Bessmeltsev M. Parallel Construction of Moving Adaptive Meshes Based on Self-Organization // Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, PaCT 2007 proc. (V. Malyshkin, ed.), Vol. 4671, 2007, p. 589-598

Currently I am a postdoc at MIT (CSAIL) with Justin Solomon. Before, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), working on various sketch-based modeling projects under supervision of Alla Sheffer. Before that (2004-2010) I did my Bachelor's and Master's (oh childhood!) at Mechanics & Mathematics Department of Novosibirsk State University (Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia) under supervision of Olga Nechaeva.

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Currently the top interest for me is sketching and whatever 3D we can create with it. I'm generally interested in geometry processing, and computer graphics as a tool for creating true art.

Outside the department, I'm an argentine tango dancer. I also occasionally play/compose/record music, mostly on guitar (blues, classics, tango, slowly moving towards jazz).