[2026-05-21] Xuan Li wins SCA 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable mention.

[2026-05-18] Yunuo Chen is featured in UCLA Math Graduate Student Spotlight.

[2026-04-21] Tianyi Xie wins the UCLA CS Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.

[2026-04-09] Our paper SPARK: Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge is accepted as CVPR oral.

[2025-11-07] Our paper ElastoGen: 4D Generative Elastodynamics is accepted as AAAI oral.

[2025-10-10] Jiayin Lu wins the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Postdoctoral Fellowships.

[2025-09-18] Our paper Taccel: Scaling Up Vision-based Tactile Robotics via High-performance GPU Simulation is accepted as NeurIPS spotlight.

[2025-04-04] Our paper ARM: Appearance Reconstruction Model for Relightable 3D Generation is accepted as CVPR highlight.

[2025-02-28] Chang Yu wins the Meshy AI Scholarship.

[2024-10-14] Our paper A Convex Formulation of Frictional Contact for the Material Point Method and Rigid Bodies is recognized as a Finalist for IEEE IROS 2024 RoboCup Best Paper Award.