Mengdi Wang (王梦迪)

PhD Student
School of IC, Georgia Institute of Technology
3142 Klaus Building
Email: mengdi.wang@gatech.edu
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About Me

I am a PhD student at Georgia Tech in the School of Interactive Computing, majoring in Computer Science with a research focus on physics-based simulation, advised by Prof. Bo Zhu. I received my Bachelor degree of Computer Science at Peking University in 2020, advised by Prof. Baoquan Chen.

My overarching research goal is to empower diverse fields such as scientific discovery, video generation AI, and game visual effects through high-performance, large-scale GPU-based physical simulations. To this end, my work involves the development of novel numerical algorithms for simulating both large-scale physical phenomena on GPUs and complex geometric fluids, leading to multiple publications at top venues including SIGGRAPH and the Journal of Computational Physics (JCP).

I anticipate graduating in June 2026 and am actively seeking Postdoctoral and Research Scientist positions. Please feel free to reach out to discuss potential opportunities.


Publications

Cirrus: Adaptive Hybrid Particle-Grid Flow Maps on GPU
webpage paper code
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2025)
Mengdi Wang, Fan Feng, Junlin Li, Bo Zhu



Real-Time Knit Deformation and Rendering
webpage paper
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2025)
Tao Huang*, Haoyang Shi*, Mengdi Wang*, Yuxing Qiu, Yin Yang, Kui Wu



An interface tracking method with triangle edge cuts
webpage paper
Mengdi Wang, Matthew Cong, Bo Zhu

Journal of Computational Physics (Volume 520, 1 January 2025, 113504)



Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Solid-Fluid Interaction
paper
Jinyuan Liu, Mengdi Wang, Fan Feng, Annie Tang, Qiqin Le, Bo Zhu
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)



A Clebsch method for free-surface vortical flow simulation
webpage paper
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2022)
Shiying Xiong, Zhecheng Wang, Mengdi Wang, Bo Zhu



A Moving Eulerian-Lagrangian Particle Method for Thin Film and Foam Simulation
webpage paper code
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2022)
Yitong Deng, Mengdi Wang, Xiangxin Kong, Shiying Xiong, Zangyueyang Xian, Bo Zhu



Thin-Film Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Fluid
webpage paper code
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2021)
Mengdi Wang, Yitong Deng, Xiangxin Kong, Aditya H. Prasad, Shiying Xiong, Bo Zhu



Visual Data Analysis and Simulation Prediction for COVID-19
paper
Published in arXiv preprint, 2020
Baoquan Chen, Mingyi Shi, Xingyu Ni, Liangwang Ruan, Hongda Jiang, Heyuan Yao, Mengdi Wang, Zhenhua Song, Qiang Zhou, Tong Ge.

Experience

Game Engine Research Intern
TikTok Inc.
San Jose, CA
2025.5 ~ Present


Research Intern
Lightspeed Studio, Tencent America
Los Angeles, CA
2024.5 ~ 2024.8


Research Intern
NVIDIA Research
Santa Clara, CA (remote)
2022.6 ~ 2022.9