About Me

Hello! I’m Zhaofeng Luo, a first-year PhD student at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Minchen Li.

Academic Interests

I am currently focused on physics-based simulation for robotics, with particular interest in narrowing the sim2real gap. I aim to develop simulation methods that can better predict real-world robotic behaviors, enabling more effective sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation and control tasks.

News

Our paper "VR-Doh: Hands-on 3D Modeling in Virtual Reality" has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025 and selected as a Top 10 Technical Papers Fast Forward! Learn more | Project page

I am excited to contribute to Libuipc, a cross-platform C++20 library offering a unified GPU incremental potential contact framework for simulating dynamics of rigid bodies, soft bodies, cloth, and threads. Learn more | Project page

Our new paper "Robust and Efficient Penetration-Free Elastodynamics without Barriers" is now available on arXiv. This work achieves up to 103x speedup over existing methods through an augmented Lagrangian approach. Learn more | arXiv

Check out my recent GPU solid simulation tutorial as part of the Physics-based Simulation book. Learn more | Code | Course material

Hobbies

Beyond academics, I have a keen interest in sports, particularly tennis. I served as the captain of the School of EECS tennis team, where we made numerous victories togeter. I’m also the president of the Peking University Student Tennis Association, where I’ve organized several tennis tournaments and classes.