Keenan Crane
About Keenan Crane
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Location
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
Keenan Crane is the Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the Geometry Collective and is a member of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis. His work uses insights from differential geometry to build fundamental representations and algorithms for processing, designing, and analyzing geometric data. Keenan received a BS from UIUC, was a Google PhD Fellow at Caltech, an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. He is a Packard Fellow, recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and Best Paper Awards at SIGGRAPH.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2020: Technical Papers
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2015: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Linear subspace design for real-time shape deformation” by Wang, Jacobson, Barbic and Kavan
- “Close-to-conformal deformations of volumes”
- “Conformal mesh deformations with Möbius transformations”
- “Dihedral angle-based maps of tetrahedral meshes” by Paillé, Ray, Poulin, Sheffer and Lévy
Other Information
- Roles
- Awardee
- Course Organizer
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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