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Me

I am Ilya Baran, my email is "ibaran AT mit DOT edu". I am a Ph.D. student in the MIT Graphics Group working with Jovan Popović on making 3D modeling and animation more accessible to non-professionals. I used to be in the algorithms group, working with Erik Demaine. I was also one of the people responsible for Cosmic Blobs, a really cool 3D modeling program for kids. One day, I might even graduate!

Research Publications

Project with Jovan Popović, "Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters", SIGGRAPH 2007.

Paper with Erik Demaine and Dmitriy Katz, "Optimally Adaptive Integration of Univariate Lipschitz Functions", LATIN 2006.
Extended abstract: [.ps] [.ps.gz] [.pdf]
Full version: [.ps] [.ps.gz] [.pdf]

Paper with Erik Demaine and Mihai Pătraşcu, "Subquadratic Algorithms for 3SUM", WADS 2005.
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My M.Eng. thesis, "Adaptive Algorithms for Problems Involving Black Box Lipschitz Functions" [.ps] [.ps.gz] [.pdf]

Paper with Erik Demaine, "Optimal Adaptive Algorithms for Finding the Nearest and Farthest Point on a Parametric Black Box Curve", SoCG 2004.
Extended abstract: [.ps] [.ps.gz] [.pdf]
Full version: (In Special Issue of IJCGA, Volume 15, Issue 4, August 2005) [.ps] [.ps.gz] [.pdf]

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