1346 Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1210 W Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706
Bio: I'm now a postdoc in Chenfanfu Jiang's group in University of Pennsylvania after spending five years working with Eftychios Sifakis. My interests are focused on physics-based simulation and scientific computing.
I got my master degree (Computer Science, 2013) in UCLA under Demetri Terzopoulos. Before that, I obtained my bachelor degree (Modern Physics, 2011) in
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Animations:
Publications:
M. Gao, "Sparse Paged Grid and its Applications to Adaptivity and Material Point Method in Physics Based Simulations", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2018.
[PDF][Presentation]
M. Gao*, X. Wang*, K. Wu* (joint first authors), A. Pradhana, E. Sifakis, C. Yuksel, C. Jiang, "GPU Optimization of Material Point Methods", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), 2018.
[PDF][Tech doc][Watch online][Code]
M. Gao, A. Pradhana, X. Han, Q. Guo, G. Kot, E. Sifakis, C. Jiang, "Animating Fluid Sediment Mixture in Particle-Laden Flows", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), 2018.
[PDF][Watch online]
(TOG Cover Image)
M. Gao, A. Pradhana, C. Jiang, E. Sifakis, "An Adaptive Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method for Simulating Elastoplastic Materials", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017.
[PDF][Tech doc][Watch online]
M. Aanjaneya*, M. Gao* (joint first authors), H. Liu, C. Batty, E. Sifakis, "Power Diagrams and Sparse Paged Grids for High Resolution Adaptive Liquids", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), 2017.
[PDF][Watch online]
T. Liu, M. Gao, L. Zhu, E. Sifakis, L. Kavan, "Fast and Robust Inversion-Free Shape Manipulation", Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 2016.
[PDF][Watch online]
M. Gao, N. Mitchell, E. Sifakis, "Steklov-Poincaré Skinning", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2014.
[PDF][Watch online]
Z. Zhao, T. Xiang, M. Gao, C. He, X. Zhang, X. Jin, "A pipelined beamforming delay calculation architecture in ultrasound imaging system",
IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2011.
Codes:
SIMD MPM transfer kernels (from: An Adaptive Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method for Simulating Elastoplastic Materials).
[Benchmark][Benchmark2.0]
GPU/CUDA 3x3 matrix SVD (from: GPU Optimization of Material Point Methods)
[Github link]
The benchmarks and the explicit/implicit simulation pipeline for optimized GPU MPM (from: GPU Optimization of Material Point Methods)
[Github link]
