Upcoming PostDoc in GDP at MIT CSAIL
I am very excited to start my PostDoc (in September 2025) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Geometric Data Processing Group with professor Justin Solomon.
I received my CS Ph.D. degree at UC San Diego and the Center for Visual Computing, where I worked on various topics in computer graphics research.
At UC San Diego, I was extremely lucky to work with professors Albert Chern and Ravi Ramamoorthi. I did my bachelors in computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, where I was fortunate to be advised by professor Christopher Batty at the Computational Motion Group.
I received a silver medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2014 and Canada Developer 30 Under 30 Award in 2018. I was credited for working on Houdini by SideFX, and two AAA games in 2020: Watch Dogs Legion by Ubisoft and Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War by Activision.
sinabiz-at-mit-dot-edu
I'm broadly interested in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering. More specifically, I'm passionate about computational geometric mechanics, structure-preserving simulations, discrete differential geometry, optimization, and stochastic mechanics. I also avidly follow research in the real-time computer graphics field.
We propose Coadjoint Orbit FLIP (CO-FLIP), a high order accurate, structure preserving fluid simulation method in the hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian framework. Using a discrete Hamiltonian formulation we achieve energy and Casimir preservation; formally, the flow evolves on infinite-dimensional coadjoint orbits.
We derive the dynamics of harmonic components for incompressible inviscid fluids, which has previously been overlooked in the vorticity-streamfunction formulation for Euler equations. We elucidate the physical laws associated with the new equations and show their importance in reproducing physically correct behaviors.
This is a comprehensive course for graphics researchers to fill the gap between their undergraduate curriculum of multivariable calculus and cutting-edge graphics research. We use relevant examples from computer graphics to illustrate the theory of exterior calculus leading to advanced topics including continuum mechanics, fluid dynamics, and geometric optimizations.
We present a method for solving the wave equation on the entire infinite domain using only finite computation time and memory. We perform wave simulations in infinite spacetime using a finite discretization of the bounded spacetime with no additional loss of accuracy introduced by the Kelvin transformation.
We simulate Euler equations for inviscid fluids by using a novel formulation based on covectors. This new formulation is an entirely velocity-based method in the vein of advection-projection methods while emulating vortex methods. This allows for capturing more intricate vortex dynamics and reducing dissipation of energy with low computational overhead.
We solve infinite-domain simulation problems by applying the Kelvin transform. The transformation turns infinite-domain PDEs into bounded-domain ones via a domain inversion and a singularity factorization.
Throughout my studies, I've been very fortunate to intern at various places, and be mentored by all the wonderful folks listed below, so that I could pursue my childhood passion towards movies, animation, and gaming. These internships have allowed me to witness how much beautiful math, physics, and engineering goes into creating these forms of art, and to contribute my share to them.
Mentors: Alexey Stomakhin, Steve Lesser
Worked on fluids and other Loki simulation tools.
Mentors: Fernando de Goes, Andrew Butts, Mark Meyer
Worked on cloth deformation and simulation.
Mentor: Jose Doran
Worked on Call of Duty: Warzone 2.
Mentor: Michael Vance, Akimitsu Hogge
Worked on Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War.
Mentor: Prof. Christopher Batty
Worked on adaptive quad/octree viscous fluid simulation.
Mentor: Ruben Penalva, Randy Tjandra
Worked on Watch Dogs Legion.
Mentor: Jeff Lait
Worked on Houdini 17 release.
Mentor: Neil Dickson, Derrick Moser
Worked on Houdini 16.5 release.
Mentor: Rob Bairos, Malcolm Bechard
Worked on Touch Designer engine.
Mentor: Jamie de Domenico
Worked on auto focus systems.
Volunteered to help instruct and lead the Canadian olympiad team.