Maxine Perroni-Scharf

Hello! I'm Maxine, a computer science student with interests in computational fabrication, computer graphics and computer vision.

I am a PhD student in EECS at MIT where I am advised by Professor Stefanie Mueller, with interests in computer-vision, graphics, HCI and computational fabrication. I did a research-based master's degree at Princeton University, where I worked on 3D printing objects with view dependent appearance while advised by Professor Szymon Rusinkiewicz . I went to undergrad at Dartmouth College, where I was advised by Professor Devin Balkcom and also worked with Professor Xia Zhou at the DartNets lab. I have also spent a wonderful summer working as an intern at Adobe Research with Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Kalyan Sunkavalli and J Eisenmann. In my free time, I love to make art!

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A system for previewing the appearance of 3D-printed objects from slicer screenshots and real material samples before fabrication.

A simulations and geometry based method to use up sustainable 3D-printing filaments without compromising the strength of the final print.

A system for making dynamic physical media based on the classic barrier-grid animation technique.

A Bayesian-Optimization based method discovering hyperelastic micro-scale TPMS metamaterials with high energy dissipation capabilities.

A framework for unsupervised learning of neurosymbolic Finite State Machines (FSM) that capture environmental structure for policy optimization.

A novel 3D printing method for fabricating dynamic, cable-driven mechanisms by embedding actuation strings during print time.

A fabrication technique and design tool that enables users to easily attach, remove, and swap tactile textures on 3D printed objects.

Optimizing and 3D printing surfaces that have view-dependent appearance.

Augmenting synthetic 3D data by replacing PBR materials with procedural materials.

Modular soft robots that can manipulate objects and locomote individually and together.

Wireless laser-based 3D localization across the air-water interface.

3D-modeling based method for displaying total skin electron therapy dosage on patients.

A prototype tool for exploring trade-offs between material usage and mechanical strength in 3D printing.

Using a GAN and autoencoder for performing novel view synthesis on graphite sketches of chairs.

Using identity-based prompts to uncover toxicity and biases in GPT-3.

A planar robot system that can manipulate a puck across the surface.

A VR forest exploration game for Oculus Quest.

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