My research addresses problems that arise in digital modeling and simulation by integrating design choices and goals such as efficiency, scalability, parallelization, heterogeneity of hardware, and sparsity of data directly into the underlying data structures and algorithms, involving a healthy interplay between computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and physics.

Computer Graphics, High Performance Computing, Physics-based Simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Geometry, Biomechanics, Computational Physics, Robotics

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2008 - 2013
• Dissertation: "A Monolithic Mass Tracking Formulation for Bubbles in Incompressible Flow"
• Advisor: Prof. Ronald Fedkiw
• GPA: 3.97/4.0


• B.Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2004 - 2008
• Thesis: "Excursions in Neighborhood Geometry of Tessellations"
• Advisors: Prof. S. P. Pal and Dr. Arijit Bishnu
• GPA: 8.87/10.0

• H. Liu, N. Mitchell, M. Aanjaneya, and E. Sifakis, “A scalable Schur-complement fluids solver for heterogeneous compute platforms”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 35, 6, 201:1-12, 2016.
• C. R. L. Anumolu, M. Aanjaneya, E. Sifakis, and M. Trujillo, “Simulating Phase-Change Phenomena Using Gradient Augmented Level Set Approach”, ILASS Americas 28th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, 2016.
• S. Patkar, M. Aanjaneya, W. Lu, M. Lentine and R. Fedkiw, “Towards Positivity Preservation for Monolithic Two-way Solid-Fluid Coupling”, Journal of Computational Physics, 312, 82-114, 2016.
• H. Mazhar, M. Aanjaneya, and D. Negrut, “Two Approaches to Simulating Large Multi-Scale Dynamics Problems Involving Soil Mechanics”, 4th Joint International Conference on Multibody System Dynamics, 2016.
• H. Mazhar, M. Aanjaneya, and D. Negrut, “Two Approaches to Simulating Large Multi-Scale Dynamics Problems Involving Soil Mechanics”, 8th Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics, 2016.
• N. Mitchell, M. Aanjaneya, R. Setaluri and E. Sifakis, “Non-Manifold Level Sets: A multivalued implicit surface representation with applicationsself-collision processing”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 34, 6, 247:1-9, 2015.
• A. Pazouki, H. Mazhar, M. Aanjaneya, P. Jayakumar, E. Sifakis and D. Negrut, “A Comparative Study of Four Fluid-Solid Coupling Methods for Applications in Ground Vehicle Mobility”, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, 2015.
• R. Setaluri, M. Aanjaneya, S. Bauer and E. Sifakis, “SPGrid: a sparse paged grid structure applied to adaptive smoke simulation”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 33, 6, 205:1-12, 2014.
• S. Patkar, M. Aanjaneya, A. Bartle, M. Lee and R. Fedkiw, “Effficient Denting and Bending of Rigid Bodies”, Symposium on Computer Animation, 2014.
• M. Aanjaneya, S. Patkar and R. Fedkiw, “A Monolithic Mass Tracking Formulation for Bubbles in Incompressible Flow”, Journal of Computational Physics, 247, 17-61, 2013.
• A. Khan, S. P. Pal, M. Aanjaneya, A. Bishnu and S. C. Nandy, “Diffuse Reflection Diameter and Radius for Convex Quadrilateralizable Polygons”, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 161 (10-11), 1496-1505, 2013.
• S. Patkar, M. Aanjaneya, D. Karpman and R. Fedkiw, “A Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Formulation for Bubble Generation and Dynamics”, Symposium on Computer Animation, 2013.
• M. Aanjaneya, F. Chazal, D. Chen, M. Glisse, L. Guibas and D. Morozov, “Metric Graph Reconstruction from Noisy Data”, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, 22, 4, 305-325, 2012.
• T. Pylvänäinen, J. Berclaz, T. Korah, V. Hedau, M. Aanjaneya and R. Grzeszczuk, “3D City Modeling from Street-Level Data for Augmented Reality Applications”, 3DIMPVT, 2012.
• M. Aanjaneya, F. Chazal, D. Chen, M. Glisse, L. Guibas and D. Morozov, “Metric Graph Reconstruction from Noisy Data”, Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2011.
• M. Lentine, M. Aanjaneya and R. Fedkiw, “Mass and Momentum Conservation for Fluid Simulation”, Symposium on Computer Animation, 2011.
• K. Heath, N. Gelfand, M. Ovsjanikov, M. Aanjaneya and L. Guibas, “Image Webs: Computing and Exploiting Connectivity in Image Collections”, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.
• M. Aanjaneya, “Tromino tilings of domino-deficient rectangles”, Discrete Mathematics, 309, 4, 937-944, 2009.
• M. Aanjaneya, A. Bishnu and S. P. Pal, “Directly Visible Pairs and Illumination by Reflections in Orthogonal Polygons”, European Workshop on Computational Geometry, 2008.
• M. Aanjaneya and M. Teillaud, “Triangulating the Real Projective Plane”, Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, 2007.

• Research Associate, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, Mar. 2014 - present.
• Conducting research in physics-based simulation under Prof. Eftychios Sifakis, with a focus on improving the scalability of numerical solvers for incompressible fluids and volumetric solids.


• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2013.
• Conducted research in physics-based simulation under Prof. Ronald Fedkiw, with a focus on designing efficient numerical solvers for underwater bubble simulation.


• Research Intern, GEOMETRICA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, Summer 2007 and 2008.
• Conducted research under Prof. Monique Teillaud, with a focus on designing geometric algorithms for triangulating the projective plane from an input point cloud.

• Guest Lecturer, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, Spring 2016.
• Lectured in CS559 (Computer Graphics) on homogeneous coordinates and hierarchical modeling for articulated character animation.


• Associate Lecturer, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, Spring 2015.
• Taught CS412 (Introduction to Numerical Methods) to a class of 70 students.


• Guest Lecturer, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, Spring 2014.
• Lectured in CS838 (Topics in Computing: Introduction to Physics-Based Modeling and Simulation) on level set methods and numerical solvers for underwater bubble simulation.


• Course Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, Spring 2013.
• Head course assistant for CS205a (Mathematical Methods for Computer Graphics, Vision and Robotics). Lead weekly hour-long review sessions and also lectured on behalf of the instructor.


• Course Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, Fall 2012.
• Course assistant for CS148 (Introduction to Computer Graphics). Assisted students with fundamental concepts, OpenGL programming and writing customized rendering software.


• Instructor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, Summer 2012.
• Taught CS154 (Introduction to Automata Theory) to a class of 17 students.


• Course Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, Spring 2010.
• Course assistant for CS103 (Mathematical Foundations of Computing). Delivered a guest lecture and assisted students with using concepts from class to solve problems.

• Staff Software Engineer, @WalmartLabs, San Bruno, CA, Aug. 2013 - Feb. 2014.
• Member of the Algorithmic Business Optimization (ABO) team. Designed and implemented an automatic and scalable system for computing margin from financial data.


• Research Consultant, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, Jun. 2010 - Jun. 2012.
• Designed and implemented algorithms for 3D reconstruction from point clouds, geometry optimization, and visual recognition of large planar facades for mobile applications.

• Guest Lecturer, Junior Achievement Program, CA, Oct. 2013.
• Taught elementary school kids (4th grade) for a day about entrepreneurship.


• Mentor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, Summer 2011.
• Supervised four undergraduate students (three from University of Texas at El Paso, and one from Morgan State University) on physics-based simulation on Android tablets, under the Army High Performance Computing and Research Center (AHPCRC) Summer Institute.

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2015 - present.
• Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 2016 - present.
• Reviewer, Pacific Graphics, 2013, 2015.
• Reviewer, SIGGRAPH, 2015 - present.
• Reviewer, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 2014 - present.
• Reviewer, Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - present.
• Reviewer, Discrete Mathematics, 2011 - present.
• Reviewer, Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, 2009.

• Best Paper Award (honorable mention), Symposium on Computer Animation, 2013.
• For the paper entitled A Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Formulation for Bubble Generation and Dynamics.


• Best Paper Award (honorable mention), Symposium on Computer Animation, 2011.
• For the paper entitled Mass and Momentum Conservation for Fluid Simulation.


• Innovative Student Project Award, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Government of India, Dec. 2008.
• Best undergraduate thesis award (given only to five undergraduate theses all over India).


• Best B. Tech. Thesis Award, Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, May 2008.


• Outstanding Inventor Award, International Exhibition for Young Inventors, Feb. 2007.


• Best Project Award, IRIS National Fair, Dec. 2006.
• Awarded for the project “Tromino tilings of rectangles”. Organized by Intel, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Government of India.


• JBNSTS scholar, Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search, 2004 - present.

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