I am a Ph.D. student at Kahlert School of Computing, the University of Utah, starting from 2022. I am advised by Professor Cem Yuksel. Before that, I was managed by Professor Yin Yang. My current research interest is physics-based simulation and motion capture.

I grew up in Shanghai, China, and received my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Peking University, China in 2020. Before moving to the U of U and changing my research area to computer graphics in 2022 Fall, I was studying computer networks at Georgia Tech.

Publications

High-performance CPU Cloth Simulation Using Domain-decomposed Projective Dynamics
Zixuan Lu*, Ziheng Liu* (*equal contributors), Lei Lan, Huamin Wang, Yuko Ishiwaka, Chenfanfu Jiang, Kui Wu, Yin Yang
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2025 Technical Papers Awards: Honorable Mentions
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Offset Geometric Contact
Anka He Chen, Jerry Hsu, Ziheng Liu, Miles Macklin, Yin Yang, Cem Yuksel
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2025

Vertex Block Descent
Anka He Chen, Ziheng Liu, Yin Yang, Cem Yuksel
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2024
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