Doug James
Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Music
Bio
Doug L. James is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (since June 2015), and a member of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME). He holds three degrees in applied mathematics, including a Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of British Columbia. In 2002 he joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor, and later became an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University (2006-2015). His research interests include computer graphics, computer sound, physically based modeling and animation, and reduced-order physics models. Doug is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a fellow of both the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a 2012 Technical Achievement Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for "Wavelet Turbulence," and the 2013 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize from Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology. He was the Technical Papers Program Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015, and a consulting Senior Research Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios from 2015-2020.
Administrative Appointments
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Full Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Consulting Senior Research Scientist, Pixar Animation Studios (2015 - 2020)
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Associate Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University (2006 - 2015)
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Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute, and Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University (2002 - 2006)
Honors & Awards
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Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology (2013)
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Technical Achievement Award for Wavelet Turbulence, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2013)
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Research Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2011)
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College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching (Douglas Whitney `61 Award), Cornell University (2008)
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Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006)
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"Brilliant 10" young scientist, Popular Science magazine (2005)
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CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2004)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Chair, Technical Papers Program, ACM SIGGRAPH (2015 - 2015)
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Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Graphics (2005 - 2017)
Program Affiliations
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Stanford SystemX Alliance
Professional Education
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PhD, University of British Columbia, Applied Mathematics (2001)
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MSc, University of British Columbia, Applied Mathematics (1997)
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BSc, University of Western Ontario, Applied Mathematics (1995)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Computer graphics & animation, physics-based sound synthesis, computational physics, haptics, reduced-order modeling
Projects
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Sound Rendering for Physically Based Animation
2020-21 Courses
- Computer Graphics: Animation and Simulation
CS 348C (Win) - Great Ideas in Graphics
CS 44N (Aut) - Physically Based Animation and Sound
CS 448Z (Spr) -
Independent Studies (19)
- Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499P (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Computer Laboratory
CS 393 (Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390A (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390B (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390C (Spr, Sum) - Independent Database Project
CS 395 (Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399 (Aut, Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399P (Win, Spr) - Independent Work
CS 199 (Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Work
CS 199P (Aut, Spr, Sum) - Part-time Curricular Practical Training
CS 390D (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Ph.D. Research
CME 400 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Practicum Internship
MUSIC 390 (Aut, Win, Sum) - Programming Service Project
CS 192 (Spr, Sum) - Research in Computer-Generated Music
MUSIC 220D (Aut, Win) - Senior Project
CS 191 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Supervised Undergraduate Research
CS 195 (Spr, Sum) - Writing Intensive Senior Project (WIM)
CS 191W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Advanced Reading and Research
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Computer Graphics: Animation and Simulation
CS 348C (Win) - Hacking the Pandemic
CS 448P (Spr)
2018-19 Courses
- Computer Graphics: Animation and Simulation
CS 348C (Win) - INTERACTIVE MEDIA AND GAMES
BIOE 196, BIOPHYS 196, CS 544 (Aut) - Introduction to Game Design and Development
CS 146 (Aut) - Making Making Machines for Makers
CS 448M (Spr)
2017-18 Courses
- Computer Graphics: Animation and Simulation
CS 348C (Aut) - Interactive Media and Games
CS 544 (Aut) - Introduction to Game Design and Development
CS 146 (Aut) - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision, and Graphics
CS 205A (Win)
- Computer Graphics: Animation and Simulation
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Mark Rau, Feng Xie -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Ryan Aronson, Ante Qu -
Master's Program Advisor
Preston Carlson, Victoria Delaney, Laura Fiuza, Juan Grau, Thomas Hsieh, Yige Liu, Sowmya Patapati, Eric Rawn, Andrew Tang, Stephen Weyns, Madeleine Yip -
Doctoral (Program)
Xinru Hua, Ante Qu
All Publications
- Phong Deformation: A better C0 interpolant for embedded deformation ACM Transactions on Graphics 2020; 39 (4): 9
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KleinPAT: Optimal Mode Conflation For Time-Domain Precomputation Of Acoustic Transfer
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2019; 38 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3306346.3322976
View details for Web of Science ID 000475740600096
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Sharp Kelvinlets: Elastic deformations with cusps and localized falloffs
DigiPro '19: 2019 Digital Production Symposium
2019: 8
View details for DOI 10.1145/3329715.3338884
- On the Impact of Ground Sound International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19) 2019
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Dynamic Kelvinlets: Secondary Motions based on Fundamental Solutions of Elastodynamics
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2018; 37 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3197517.3201280
View details for Web of Science ID 000448185000042
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Toward Wave-based Sound Synthesis for Computer Animation
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2018; 37 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3197517.3201318
View details for Web of Science ID 000448185000070
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Interactive Design of Periodic Yarn-Level Cloth Patterns
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2018
View details for DOI 10.1145/3272127.3275105
View details for Web of Science ID 000455637100025
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Regularized Kelvinlets: Sculpting brushes based on fundamental solutions of elasticity
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
2017; 36 (2)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3072959.3073595
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Bounce Maps: An improved restitution model for real-time rigid-body impact
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
2017; 36 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3072959.3073634
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Animating Elastic Rods with Sound
Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
2017; 36 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3072959.3073680
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Toward Animating Water with Complex Acoustic Bubbles
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2016; 35 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2897824.2925904
View details for Web of Science ID 000380112400065
- Real-time sound synthesis for paper material based on geometric analysis Eurographics/ ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (2016) Eurographics Association . 2016
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Inverse-Foley Animation: Synchronizing rigid-body motions to sound
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2014; 33 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2601097.2601178
View details for Web of Science ID 000340000100008
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Eigenmode Compression for Modal Sound Models
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2014; 33 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2601097.2601177
View details for Web of Science ID 000340000100007
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Physics-Based Character Skinning Using Multidomain Subspace Deformations
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
2012; 18 (8): 1228-1240
Abstract
In this extended version of our Symposium on Computer Animation paper, we describe a domain-decomposition method to simulate articulated deformable characters entirely within a subspace framework. We have added a parallelization and eigendecomposition performance analysis, and several additional examples to the original symposium version. The method supports quasistatic and dynamic deformations, nonlinear kinematics and materials, and can achieve interactive time-stepping rates. To avoid artificial rigidity, or “locking,” associated with coupling low-rank domain models together with hard constraints, we employ penaltybased coupling forces. The multidomain subspace integrator can simulate deformations efficiently, and exploits efficient subspace-only evaluation of constraint forces between rotated domains using a novel Fast Sandwich Transform (FST). Examples are presented for articulated characters with quasistatic and dynamic deformations, and interactive performance with hundreds of fully coupled modes. Using our method, we have observed speedups of between 3 and 4 orders of magnitude over full-rank, unreduced simulations.
View details for DOI 10.1109/TVCG.2012.78
View details for Web of Science ID 000305000300005
View details for PubMedID 22392720
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Precomputed Acceleration Noise for Improved Rigid-Body Sound
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2012; 31 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2185520.2185599
View details for Web of Science ID 000308250300079
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Stitch Meshes for Modeling Knitted Clothing with Yarn-level Detail
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2012; 31 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2185520.2185533
View details for Web of Science ID 000308250300013
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Motion-driven Concatenative Synthesis of Cloth Sounds
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2012; 31 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2185520.2185598
View details for Web of Science ID 000308250300078
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Energy-based Self-Collision Culling for Arbitrary Mesh Deformations
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2012; 31 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2185520.2185594
View details for Web of Science ID 000308250300074
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Fabricating Articulated Characters from Skinned Meshes
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2012; 31 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/2185520.2185543
View details for Web of Science ID 000308250300023
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Animating Fire with Sound
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2011; 30 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/1964921.1964979
View details for Web of Science ID 000297216400058
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Toward High-Quality Modal Contact Sound
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2011; 30 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/1964921.1964933
View details for Web of Science ID 000297216400012
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Rigid-Body Fracture Sound with Precomputed Soundbanks
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2010; 29 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/1778765.1778806
View details for Web of Science ID 000279806600039
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Efficient Yarn-based Cloth with Adaptive Contact Linearization
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2010; 29 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/1778765.1778842
View details for Web of Science ID 000279806600075
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Subspace Self-Collision Culling
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2010; 29 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/1778765.1778818
View details for Web of Science ID 000279806600051
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Harmonic Shells: A Practical Nonlinear Sound Model for Near-Rigid Thin Shells
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference 2009
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009
View details for DOI 10.1145/1618452.1618465
View details for Web of Science ID 000273315300014
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Skipping Steps in Deformable Simulation with Online Model Reduction
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference 2009
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009
View details for DOI 10.1145/1618452.1618469
View details for Web of Science ID 000273315300018
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Harmonic Fluids
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2009
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009
View details for DOI 10.1145/1531326.1531343
View details for Web of Science ID 000269278000017
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Staggered Projections for Frictional Contact in Multibody Systems
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2008
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008
View details for DOI 10.1145/1409060.1409117
View details for Web of Science ID 000266986100058
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Optimizing Cubature for Efficient Integration of Subspace Deformations
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2008
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008
View details for DOI 10.1145/1409060.1409118
View details for Web of Science ID 000266986100059
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Wavelet turbulence for fluid simulation
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2008
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008
View details for DOI 10.1145/1360612.1360649
View details for Web of Science ID 000258262000039
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Fast modal sounds with scalable frequency-domain synthesis
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2008
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008
View details for DOI 10.1145/1360612.1360623
View details for Web of Science ID 000258262000013
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Backward steps in rigid body simulation
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2008
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008
View details for DOI 10.1145/1360612.1360624
View details for Web of Science ID 000258262000014
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Simulating knitted cloth at the yarn level
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2008
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008
View details for DOI 10.1145/1360612.1360664
View details for Web of Science ID 000258262000054
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Six-DoF Haptic Rendering of Contact between Geometrically Complex Reduced Deformable Models
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HAPTICS
2008; 1 (1): 39-52
View details for DOI 10.1109/ToH.2008.1
View details for Web of Science ID 000207897900005
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FastLSM: Fast Lattice Shape Matching for robust real-time deformation
ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Conference
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2007
View details for DOI 10.1145/1239451.1239533
View details for Web of Science ID 000248914000085
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Many-Worlds browsing for control of multibody dynamics
ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Conference
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2007
View details for DOI 10.1145/1239451.1239465
View details for Web of Science ID 000248914000017
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Mesh ensemble motion graphs: Data-driven mesh animation with constraints
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2007; 26 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1145/1289603.1289608
View details for Web of Science ID 000250898000005
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Time-critical distributed contact for 6-DoF haptic rendering of adaptively sampled reduced deformable models
Symposium on Computer Animation
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2007: 171–180
View details for Web of Science ID 000266362200018
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Precomputed Acoustic Transfer: Output-sensitive, accurate sound generation for geometrically complex vibration sources
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2006; 25 (3): 987-995
View details for Web of Science ID 000239817400060
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Skinning mesh animations
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2005: 399–407
View details for Web of Science ID 000231223700004
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Real-time subspace integration for St. Venant-Kirchhoff deformable models
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2005: 982–90
View details for Web of Science ID 000231223700079
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BD-Tree: Output-sensitive collision detection for reduced deformable models
Annual Symposium of the ACM SIGGRAPH
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2004: 393–98
View details for Web of Science ID 000222972600027
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Precomputing interactive dynamic deformable scenes
Annual Symposium of the ACM SIGGRAPH
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2003: 879–87
View details for Web of Science ID 000184291700081
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Multiresolution Green's function methods for interactive simulation of large-scale elastostatic objects
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
2003; 22 (1): 47-82
View details for Web of Science ID 000179844100003
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DyRT: Dynamic response textures for real time deformation simulation with graphics hardware
SIGGRAPH 2002 Meeting
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2002: 582–85
View details for Web of Science ID 000176671100045
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Real time simulation of multizone elastokinematic models
19th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IEEE. 2002: 927–932
View details for Web of Science ID 000178573200146
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Scanning physical interaction behavior of 3D objects
SIGGRAPH 2001
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2001: 87–96
View details for Web of Science ID 000173048800009
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ArtDefo - Accurate real time deformable objects
26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1999: 65–72
View details for Web of Science ID 000083678900007