Email: rickyryqme | yuqirenuscedu
My name is Yuqi Ren, and I also go by Ricky. I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Jernej Barbič. My research interests are computer graphics and physics-based simulation, primarily deformable body simulation and fluid simulation. I am also open to exploring machine learning.
Previously, I studied computer science in IIIS ("Yao Class") at Tsinghua University as an undergraduate.
I started my Ph.D. at USC, advised by Prof. Jernej Barbič!
I graduated from Tsinghua University!
An NVIDIA Warp-based framework for simulating and controlling string-like aquatic soft bodies, combining discrete elastic rods (DER), fluid drag, collision handling, and simulation-based motion optimization.
Differentiable two-fluid SPH simulation coupled with differentiable rendering for latte art optimization, with GPU acceleration in NVIDIA Warp and analysis of gradient errors.
A variational fluid-solid coupling implementation based on Batty et al.'s A Fast Variational Framework for Accurate Solid-Fluid Coupling, with 2D and 3D versions.
An Eulerian fluid simulator with a matrix-free conjugate gradient (CG) solver, implemented in C++ and rendered with PBRT-v4 and Python.
I remain passionate about physics. Fun fact: I won a gold medal in the 52nd International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), ranking in the top five worldwide.
Outside research, I enjoy photography, open source, and self-hosting.