Ningna Wang

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My name is Ningna Wang (/niŋ-na/ /wɔŋ/, 王宁娜 in Chinese). I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Graphics Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. Under the supervision of Prof. Xiaohu Guo, my research focuses on geometric modeling. My current research direction is medial axis computation and its application. I would love to explore new representations and new algorithms to make processing geometric data more easily and efficiently. I will be joining the Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Sep 2025, supervised by Dr. Silvia Sellán.
Prior to UTD, I worked as a Senior Software Developer at Booking.com, Amsterdam, Netherlands, where I was responsible for the development of hotel availability distributed search system that handles thousands of requests per second. I obtained the M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the B.S. in Mathematics from Jilin University (JLU).
Latest News
Feb 2025 | One paper accepted to CVPR 2025, another paper accepted to journal Computer Aided Geometric Design. |
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Dec 2024 | I received the Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Awards. |
Nov 2024 | I am serving as a Program Committee for International Conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2025. |
Aug 2024 | Two papers conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 ![]() ![]() |
Jul 2024 | Our Supervised Team of High School Students Received the 1st Prize CAST STAR Award in CAST-STEM Bridge Summer Camp 2024! Click here for details. |
Mar 2024 | One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024. |
Feb 2024 | I am serving as a reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2024. |
Jan 2024 | I am serving as a reviewer for International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2024) and Graphical Models 2024. |
Oct 2023 | I’m visiting VCC lab as Research Intern in Shenzhen University under the supervision of Prof. Hui Huang. |
Jul 2023 | One paper accepted to ACM Multimedia 2023 (29.3% acceptance rate). |
Jul 2023 | Our paper “Globally Consistent Normal Orientation for Point Clouds by Regularizing the Winding-number Field” wins the SIGGRAPH 2023 Technical Papers Best Paper Award!!! ![]() |
Jun 2023 | I am serving as a reviewer for Pacific Graphics IPC. |
Mar 2023 | One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023. ![]() ![]() |
Dec 2022 | I will be presenting “Computing Medial Axis Transform with Feature Preservation via Restricted Power Diagram” at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. |
Nov 2022 | I am serving as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. |
Aug 2022 | One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. |
Research
- Computing 3D Medial Axis Transform via Restricted Power Diagram (RPD)SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward, 2025
- Globally Consistent Normal Orientation for Point Clouds by Regularizing the Winding-Number FieldACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2023[Journal Track] [SIGGRAPH 2023 Technical Papers Best Paper Award]
- S3DS: Self-supervised Learning of 3D Skeletons from Single View ImagesACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023
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- IMMAT: Mesh Reconstruction from Single View Images by Medial Axis Transform PredictionComputer-Aided Design (CAD), 2022
- A method of realistic leaves modeling based on point cloudIn Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on VRCAI, 2013
Academic Services
Conference:
Reviewer | ACM SIGGRAPH
@2025, 2024
Reviewer | ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
@2024
Program Committee | International Conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM)
@2025
Program Committee | Computer Graphics International (CGI)
@2025
Reviewer | International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP)
@2024
Reviewer | Pacific Graphics
@2023
Journal:
Reviewer | Computer Aided Geometric Design
@2024
Reviewer | Graphical Models (GMOD)
@2025, 2024
Reviewer | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
@2022
Teaching:
Teaching Assistant | UTD CS4361/CS6366 Computer Graphics
@2025Spring, 2024Fall
Teaching Assistant | UTD Clarfk Summer Research Program
@2024Summer
Teaching Assistant | CAST-STEM Bridge Summer Camp Website Video Poster
@2024Summer

Teaching Assistant | UTD CS6323 Computer Animation and Gaming
@2022Fall
Teaching Assistant | UTD CS6366 Computer Graphics
@2021Spring
Teaching Assistant | UTD CS6334 Virtual Reality
@2020Spring
Teaching Assistant | UTD CS4347 Database Systems
@2021Spring, 2022Fall
Teaching Assistant | UTD CS4332 Introduction to Programming Video Games
@2019Fall