Mridul Aanjaneya

About Me

I will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting Fall 2017. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where I was advised by Prof. Ronald Fedkiw. During graduate school, I also worked as a consultant in the Spatial Technologies team at the Nokia Research Center. Prior to joining Stanford, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur with a B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering. As an undergraduate, I also spent two wonderful summers as a research intern in the GEOMETRICA team at INRIA Sophia Antipolis.

I am interested in the areas of computer graphics, scientific and high-performance computing, computational physics, robotics, biomechanics, computational geometry and their applications in the physical sciences and engineering. Some of my recent work has focused on pushing the limits of current numerical algorithms for capturing small scale details in solid and fluid simulations by leveraging accelerations both at the algorithmic and systems level. More broadly, I am interested in the design of next generation algorithms that can facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers in engineering and medicine for understanding phenomena that are intractable by current means. Outside of work, I enjoy running, rock climbing, hiking, watching movies, and playing piano.

Publications

Power Diagrams and Sparse Paged Grids for High Resolution Adaptive Liquids Mridul Aanjaneya, Ming Gao, Haixiang Liu, Christopher Batty and Eftychios Sifakis (Joint first authors) ACM Transactions on Graphics,* (SIGGRAPH proceedings), 36, 4, (2017)
A scalable Schur-complement fluids solver for heterogeneous compute platforms Haixiang Liu, Nathan Mitchell, Mridul Aanjaneya and Eftychios Sifakis ACM Transactions on Graphics, (SIGGRAPH Asia proceedings), 35, 6, 201:1-12 (2016) Inside Front Cover Image
Towards Positivity Preservation for Monolithic Two-way Solid-Fluid Coupling Saket Patkar, Mridul Aanjaneya, Wenlong Lu, Michael Lentine and Ronald Fedkiw Journal of Computational Physics, 312, 82-114 (2016)
Simulating Phase-Change Phenomena Using Gradient Augmented Level Set Approach C. R. Lakshman Anumolu, Mridul Aanjaneya, Eftychios Sifakis and Mario F. Trujillo ILASS Americas 28th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (2016)
Non-manifold Level Sets: A multivalued implicit surface representation with applications to self-collision processing Nathan Mitchell, Mridul Aanjaneya, Rajsekhar Setaluri and Eftychios Sifakis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia proceedings), 34, 6, 247:1-9 (2015) Back Cover Image
A comparative study of four fluid-solid coupling methods for applications in ground vehicle mobility Arman Pazouki, Hammad Mazhar, Mridul Aanjaneya, Paramsothy Jayakumar, Eftychios Sifakis and Dan Negrut ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics (2015)
SPGrid: a sparse paged grid structure applied to adaptive smoke simulation Rajsekhar Setaluri, Mridul Aanjaneya, Sean Bauer and Eftychios Sifakis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia proceedings), 33, 6, 205:1-12 (2014)
Efficient Denting and Bending of Rigid Bodies Saket Patkar, Mridul Aanjaneya, Aric Bartle, Minjae Lee and Ronald Fedkiw Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA proceedings), 87-96, (2014)
A Monolithic Mass Tracking Formulation for Bubbles in Incompressible Flow Mridul Aanjaneya Ph. D. Thesis, Stanford University, May (2013)
A Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Formulation for Bubble Generation and Dynamics Saket Patkar, Mridul Aanjaneya, Dmitriy Karpman and Ronald Fedkiw Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA proceedings), 105-114, (2013) Best Paper Award (honorable mention)
A Monolithic Mass Tracking Formulation for Bubbles in Incompressible Flow Mridul Aanjaneya, Saket Patkar and Ronald Fedkiw Journal of Computational Physics, 247, 17-61 (2013)
Method and Apparatus for Providing Perspective-based Content Placement Urban Velkavrh, Mridul Aanjaneya, Timo Pylvänäinen, Radek Grzeszczuk and Ramakrishna Vedantham US Patent 20130162644, Nokia Corporation, June (2013)
Diffuse reflection diameter and radius for convex-quadrilateralizable polygons Arindam Khan, S. P. Pal, Mridul Aanjaneya, Arijit Bishnu and S. C. Nandy Discrete Applied Mathematics, 161 (10-11), 1496-1505 (2013)
Metric Graph Reconstruction from Noisy Data Mridul Aanjaneya, Frédéric Chazal, Daniel Chen, Marc Glisse, Leonidas J. Guibas and Dmitriy Morozov International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, 22, 4, 305-325 (2012)
3D City Modeling from Street-Level Data for Augmented Reality Applications Timo Pylvänäinen, Jérôme Berclaz, Thommen Korah, Varsha Hedau, Mridul Aanjaneya and Radek Grzeszczuk International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization & Transmission (3DIMPVT proceedings), 238-245 (2012)
Mass and Momentum Conservation for Fluid Simulation Michael Lentine, Mridul Aanjaneya and Ronald Fedkiw Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA proceedings), 91-100, (2011) Best Paper Award (honorable mention)
Metric Graph Reconstruction from Noisy Data Mridul Aanjaneya, Frédéric Chazal, Daniel Chen, Marc Glisse, Leonidas J. Guibas and Dmitriy Morozov Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG proceedings), 37-46 (2011)
Image Webs: Computing and Exploiting Connectivity in Image Collections Kyle Heath, Natasha Gelfand, Maks Ovsjanikov, Mridul Aanjaneya and Leonidas J. Guibas Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR proceedings), 3432-3439 (2010)
Tromino tilings of domino-deficient rectangles Mridul Aanjaneya Discrete Mathematics, 309, 4, 937-944 (2009)
Directly Visible Pairs and Illumination by Reflections in Orthogonal Polygons Mridul Aanjaneya, Arijit Bishnu and S. P. Pal European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG proceedings) (2008)
Triangulating the Real Projective Plane Mridul Aanjaneya and Monique Teillaud Mathematical Aspects in Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS proceedings) (2007)