I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL), SUTD, Singapore, under supervision of Prof. Peng Song. Previously, I finished my Bachelor degree at Shantou University, China. I also was an research assistant in CUHKSZ under supervision of Prof. Zhenglong Sun from 2019 to 2020. My research interests is computationaly designing 3D assemblies with rigid parts. Particularly, my proposed approaches can be applied to design interesting high-level interlocking puzzles (maybe the most complex 3D interlocking puzzles in this world) and cost-efficient masonry shell structures / wireframe mesh structures.

Besides, I am a crazy fan of any kinds of sports activities. Specifically, I am a big fan of Houston Rockets (NBA) and Liverpool FC (Premier League). I am a point guard at the basketball court and was the captain of Engineering College / Zhixing Academy basketball team from 2017 to 2020. My biggest dream is to use my knowledge to help my loved teams to win more trophies, which seems to be unreachable for me so far. > - <

During my undergraduate study, I won university basketball champion three times from 2016 to 2017; won long jump champion at university sports meeting three times from 2016 to 2018; represented Shantou University to attend 3v3 Guangdong Province University Basketball Opening two times in 2018 and 2019; was selected as the memebr of sunshine basketball team of Shantou Univeristy in 2017. These are my fondest memories in my life.

My latest CV is here. (updated on 2023.08.24)

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Educations

  • Ph.D. in Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics Laboratory, SUTD, Singapore, 2020.09 - present
  • Bachelor in Electrical Information Engineering, Shantou University, 2016.09 - 2020.06

Professional Experience

  • 2022 Aug, 2022 Oct : Student Facilitator, FACT Programme, SUTD
  • 2021 Fall, 2022 Fall : Teaching Assistant for Graphics and Visualization (50.017), SUTD
  • 2019.9 - 2020.6 : Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen Campus)
  • 2017.9 - 2019.6 : Research Assistant, Shantou University

Awards

  • SIGGRAPH 2022 Technical Papers Honorable Mention Award
  • SUTD PhD Fellowship



Publications

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Masonry Shell Structures with Discrete Equivalence Classes



Rulin Chen, Pengyun Qiu, Peng Song, Bailin Deng, Ziqi Wang, Ying He

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH), 2023

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Computational Design of High-level Interlocking Puzzles



Rulin Chen, Ziqi Wang, Peng Song, Bernd Bickel

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH), 2022

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FPGA Design of Real-time MDFD System using High-level Sysnthesis



Chuliang Wei, Rulin Chen, Qin Xin

IEEE Access [pdf]

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Shape Reconstruction from a Monocular Defocus Image Using CNN



Rulin Chen, Alex Noel Joseph Raj, Xun Ma, Zhemin Zhuang

SAI Intelligent Systems Conference 2020 [pdf]



Invited Talks

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Computational Design of High-level Interlocking Puzzles



ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH), 2022 [video]