Steven S. An
stevenan at gmail dot com
Abstract:
Hi there! I'm currently a PhD student in computer graphics at Cornell University. I did my undergraduate in EECS at UC Berkeley, and then worked at a video game company for a year before deciding to pursue a PhD in 2007. My primary research interests are: efficient physical simulation, physically based sound synthesis, and real-time virtual worlds. My advisor is Doug James.
Projects and Publications:
Steven S. An, Doug L. James, and Steve Marschner, Motion-driven Concatenative Synthesis of Cloth Sounds, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), August, 2012 Project Page | PDF | Paper video (YouTube) |
Jeffrey N. Chadwick, Steven S. An, and Doug L. James, Harmonic Shells: A Practical Nonlinear Sound Model for Near-Rigid Thin Shells, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA Conference Proceedings), December 2009 Project Page | PDF | NewScientist video (YouTube) |
Steven S. An,
Theodore Kim and
Doug L. James,
Optimizing Cubature for Efficient Integration of Subspace Deformations,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA Conference Proceedings), 27(5), December 2008, pp. 164:1-164:11.
 Project Page | PDF | Video (mov) | KeyNote Slides | NEW! Source code |
Activities:
- I'm the Cornell GPSA Communications Chair for 2011-2012. Check out our biweekly newsletter for graduate and professional students.
- I'm the founder and current President of the Computer Science Graduates Organization (CSGO).
- I TA'd for CS5643 (Physically Based Animation), taught by Doug James in Spring, 2010.
- I TA'd for CS1114 (Introduction to Computing Using Matlab and Robotics), taught by Noah Snavely in Spring, 2009.
- I TA'd for CS4620 (Introduction to Computer Graphics), taught by Prof. Steve Marschner in Fall, 2008.
- I was the CS brown bag czar for 2008-2009.
Misc:
- My hobbies include playing guitar and singing, skiing/snowboarding, long boarding, windsurfing, sailing, video games, and traveling (check out my photos from Iceland!).
- There's no "correct" pronunciation for my last name in English, but saying it like "on" is fine.
- Here's a cool calendar interface I've been working on in my spare time.
- Here's a New York geography game I made with a friend for the Ithaca School District.