Postdoctoral Associate
Xiaoting Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Emily Whiting in the Shape Lab at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Charlie C.L. Wang. She obtained her M.S. in Mechatronics Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University. From 2009 to 2012, she was an associate researcher at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Xiaoting’s research is concerned with 3D fabrication, computer-aided design and computational geometry. Her recent interests revolves around shape modeling and optimization for additive manufacturing.
Selected Publications
1. Computational Design of Fabric Formwork
Xiaoting Zhang, Guoxin Fang, Melina Skouras, Gwenda Gieseler, Charlie C.L. Wang, Emily Whiting
SIGGRAPH, July 2019
2. Thermal-Comfort Design of Personalized Casts
Xiaoting Zhang, Guoxin Fang, Chengkai Dai, Jouke Verlinden, Jun Wu, Emily Whiting, Charlie C.L. Wang
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 2017
3. Perceptual Models of Preference in 3D Printing Direction
Xiaoting Zhang, Xinyi Le, Athina Panotopoulou, Emily Whiting, Charlie C.L. Wang
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 34(6), November 2015