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I am a fourth-year PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where I work in computer graphics and geometry processing. I am a member of the Geometry Collective and advised by Keenan Crane.

Publications

Winding Numbers on Discrete Surfaces

Nicole Feng, Mark Gillespie, Keenan Crane

ACM Trans. on Graph. (2023)

project page PDF (4.4mb) supplemental (PDF, 0.7mb) technical note (PDF, 2.7mb) code (C++) BibTex

Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions

Arjun S. Lakshmipathy, Nicole Feng, Yu Xi Lee, Moshe Mahler, Nancy S. Pollard

ACM Trans. on Graph. (2023)

project page PDF (11.8mb) BibTex

Tracing Versus Freehand for Evaluating Computer-Generated Drawings

Zeyu Wang, Sherry Qiu, Nicole Feng, Holly Rushmeier, Leonard McMillan, Julie Dorsey

ACM Trans. on Graph. (2021)

project page PDF (3.7mb) BibTex

Resources

Rendering Geometry in Blender

A PDF tutorial on rendering geometric quantities (scalar fields, vector fields, curves, isolines, etc.) suitable for paper figures, using the free open-source software Blender.

PDF (10.7mb)

MsFit

Crossword construction software.

Github

MsFit crossword dataset

Manually curated dataset of ∼42k high-quality crossword entries.

Github

Miscellaneous

I used to be rather serious about distance running, but had 8+ injuries between 2015 – 2020. I started training again in late 2021 (minus COVID in 2022) and really enjoy the running community in Pittsburgh. I'm a proud organizer of the Random Distance Run at CMU! On Tuesdays, you can usually find me running with the Pittsburgh Pharaoh Hounds. I also am the women's captain for the Carnegie Mellon Club XC team, which competes in cross country and track & field at the NIRCA level.

I like to write crossword puzzles, especially Schrödinger (quantum) puzzles. I occasionally post smaller puzzles on my Crosshare blog.

I occasionally make art for the department; past designs here.

Previously, I graduated from Caltech in 2020 with a B.S. in Applied & Computational Mathematics. The background to my website is taken from a photograph I took from the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains in Pasadena, California.