Emily Whiting
About Emily Whiting
- Affiliations
- Boston University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture
- Dartmouth College
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
Emily Whiting is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and Director of the BU Shape Design & Computation Lab. Her research combines digital geometry processing, engineering mechanics, and rapid prototyping to explore the development of computational tools for designing functionally valid and fabrication-ready real-world objects. She received her PhD from MIT in Computer Graphics and Building Technology. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and BU Innovation Career Development Professorship. She has also served as General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication.
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014
Emily Whiting is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the Department of Computer Science. Her research spans topics in 3D fabrication, architectural geometry, masonry structures, procedural modeling, and computer-aided design. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zürich in the Interactive Geometry Lab, supported by the Marie Curie/ETHZ Fellowship. Emily completed her PhD at MIT in Computer Graphics & Building Technology. She has a M.Sc. in Design & Computation from MIT and a Bachelor degree in Engineering Sciences.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Presentations
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- Sessions Moderated
- “DSCarver: decompose-and-spiral-carve for subtractive manufacturing” by Zhang, Zhang, Xin, Deng, Tu, et al. …
- “Metamolds: computational design of silicone molds” by Alderighi, Malomo, Giorgi, Pietroni, Bickel, et al. …
- “CoreCavity: interactive shell decomposition for fabrication with two-piece rigid molds” by Nakashima, Auzinger, Iarussi, Zhang, Igarashi, et al. …
- “Support-free volume printing by multi-axis motion” by Dai, Wu, Lefebvre, Fang, Liu, et al. …
Other Information
- Roles
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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