Yixin Chen 陈懿欣

I am now a PhD candidate of the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, advised by Professor David I.W. Levin. I obtained my B.Eng at ShanghaiTech University in Computer Science and Technology, where I was supervised by Professor Xiaopei Liu.

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Research

My research interests mainly lie in physics-based simulation, especially high-performance fluid flow simulation and control.

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Main Projects and Publications

Fast Subspace Fluid Simulation with a Temporally-Aware Basis
Siyuan Chen, Yixin Chen, Jonathan Panuelos, Otman Benchekroun, Yue Chang, Eitan Grinspun, Zhecheng Wang
ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 (Transactions on Graphics)
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Fluid Control with Laplacian Eigenfunctions
Yixin Chen, David I.W. Levin, Timothy R. Langlois
ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 (Conference Track)
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Multi‐agent Path Planning with Heterogenous Interactions in Tight Spaces
Vismay Modi, Yixin Chen, Abhishek Madan, Shinjiro Sueda, David I. W. Levin
Computer Graphics Forum, 2022
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GPU Optimization for High-Quality Kinetic Fluid Simulation
Yixin Chen, Wei Li, Rui Fan, Xiaopei Liu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021
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Fast and scalable turbulent flow simulation with two-way coupling
Wei Li, Yixin Chen, Mathieu Desbrun, Changxi Zheng, Xiaopei Liu
ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 (Transactions on Graphics)
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Other Projects

Meta-ABC: A High-complexity Lattice Geometry Dataset for Deep Learning
Internship


Game Research & Development Intern @ Lightspeed Studios, Tencent
2025.8-present
Mentor: Kui Wu
Collaborator: Wei Li


Research Scientist and Engineer Intern @ Adobe
2022.5-2025.5
Mentor: Timothy Langlois


Software Development Engineer Intern @ UBTech Robotics
2020.8-2020.12


Research Scientist Intern @ Dgene Digital Technology
2020.1-2020.6


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