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4DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agents on Inverse Graphics of Dynamic Scenes
Ruihong Shen*, Žiga Kovačič*, Peter Kulits*, Xingrui Wang, Zizhang Li, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alan Yuille, Jieneng Chen, Jiajun Wu
arXiv 2026
[Project] [Paper] [Data] [Code]

MPMWorlds: MPM Simulations for Inferring and Extrapolating Physical Dynamics
Žiga Kovačič, Kevin Ellis
arXiv 2026
[Project] [Paper]

Physics-Based Simulation
Minchen Li, Chenfanfu Jiang, Zhaofeng Luo, Žiga Kovačič, Wenxin Du, Chang Yu, Tianyi Xie
Online book, v1.0.3, 2026
[Book] [Code]

Refactoring Codebases through Library Design
Žiga Kovačič*, Justin T. Chiu*, Celine Lee, Wenting Zhao, Kevin Ellis
NeurIPS 2026 (DL4C @ NeurIPS 2025)
[Project] [Paper] [Method] [Benchmark]

Pocket Time-Lapse
Eric M. Chen, Žiga Kovačič, Madhav Aggarwal, Abe Davis
SIGGRAPH 2025
[Project] [Code]

Teaching

CS 4787: Large Scale Machine Learning (Fall 2025) — Head TA. Distributed ML, large-scale optimization, scalable ML systems.
CS 4782: Introduction to Deep Learning (Spring 2025) — Head TA. Built an autograder from scratch for all assignments.
CS 4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics (Fall 2024) — TA.
CS 4780: Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring 2024) — TA. Received TA Award for outstanding teaching contributions.
CS 2110: Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Spring 2023) — TA.

Projects

MPM Yarn Simulation
Anisotropic elastoplasticity for cloth, knit and hair frictional contact [C. Jiang et al., 2017].
2025
[Code]

XPBD Simulator
PBD solver that simulates cloth, volumetric meshes, and fluids in the same solver. Code coming soon.
2025

MLS-MPM and CPIC
Moving least squares material point method, CPIC, various materials, and mesh extraction in 2D and 3D.
2025
[Code]

Path Tracing in OCaml
Distributive ray tracing, reflections, refractions, volumetrics, emissive objects, and a BVH.
2025
[Code]

Obstruction Removal — SliceSplatting
Modifies Gaussian splatting to remove obstructions blocking objects of interest in 3D scene reconstruction. Code coming soon.
2024

Pen-2-Graph
Generates node-edge graph programs from sketches using vision-language models and differential evolution.
2024
[Code]

Image Space Modal Basis
Implements "Image-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video", extended with modal warping.
2024
[Code]

MelodyMesh
3D music visualizer that deforms meshes based on audio frequencies.
2023
[Code] [Video]