Helpful Resources

Applying to Top CS PhD Programs

Collective do’s and dont’s from various CS Professors at CMU.

• Reflecting on CS Graduate Admissions
• Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science
• How to Write a Bad Statement for a Computer Science Ph.D. Admissions Application
• Should You Email a Professor During the Ph.D. Admissions Season?
• What My PhD Was Like

Learning Physical Simulation

• Real Time Physics Class Notes
• Large Steps in Cloth Simulation - David Baraff, Andrew Witkin
• (SIGGRAPH 2012 Course) FEM Simulation of 3D Deformable Solids: A practitioner’s guide to theory, discretization and model reduction
• (SIGGRAPH 2007 Course) Fluid Simulation for Computer Animation
• Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications
• An Introduction to the Finite Element Method
• Finite Elements Analysis and Implementation

Deriving Analytical Gradients

You probably need this if you work on diffrentiable simulation without using an autodiff framework.

• The Matrix Cookbook

Giving a Presentation / Talk

• Tips for Giving Clear Talks
• How to Give a Technical Presentation (How to Give a Scientific Talk)

Writing

• Being Scheherazade: The Importance of Storytelling in Academic Writing - T Pollock, J Bono

Website Template

My website is adopted from the Hugo Academic template.

Rendering

The figures for DiffCloth and AnisotropicStokes are rendered using Mitsuba.