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.
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 :sparkles: :smile:
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!!! :trophy:
Jun 2023 I am serving as a reviewer for Pacific Graphics IPC.
Mar 2023 One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023. :sparkles: :smile:
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

  1. 2025_sigthesis_FF.png
    Computing 3D Medial Axis Transform via Restricted Power Diagram (RPD)
    Ningna Wang
    SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward, 2025
  2. 2025_CADDreamer.png
    CADDreamer: CAD Object Generation from Single-view Images
    Yuan Li, Cheng Lin, Yuan Liu, Xiaoxiao Long, Chenxu Zhang, Ningna Wang, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, and Xiaohu Guo
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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    MATTopo: Topology-preserving Medial Axis Transform with Restricted Power Diagram
    Ningna Wang, Hui Huang, Shibo Song, Bin Wang, Wenping Wang, and Xiaohu Guo
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2024
    [Journal Track]
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    NASM: Neural Anisotropic Surface Meshing
    Hongbo Li, Haikuan Zhu, Sikai Zhong, Ningna Wang, Cheng Lin, Xiaohu Guo, Shiqing Xin, Wenping Wang, Jing Hua, and Zichun Zhong
    SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024
    [Conference Track]
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    CWF: Consolidating Weak Features in High-quality Mesh Simplification
    Rui Xu, Longdu Liu, Ningna Wang, Shuangmin Chen, Shiqing Xin, Xiaohu Guo, Zichun Zhong, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang, and Changhe Tu
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2024
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    Globally Consistent Normal Orientation for Point Clouds by Regularizing the Winding-Number Field
    Rui Xu, Zhiyang Dou, Ningna Wang, Shiqing Xin, Shuangmin Chen, Mingyan Jiang, Xiaohu Guo, Wenping Wang, and Changhe Tu
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2023
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    S3DS: Self-supervised Learning of 3D Skeletons from Single View Images
    Jianwei Hu, Ningna Wang, Baorong Yang, Gang Chen, Xiaohu Guo, and Bin Wang
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023
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    Point2MM: Learning medial mesh from point clouds
    Mengyuan Ge, Junfeng Yao, Baorong Yang, Ningna Wang, Zhonggui Chen, and Xiaohu Guo
    Computers & Graphics (C&G), 2023
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    Computing Medial Axis Transform with Feature Preservation via Restricted Power Diagram
    Ningna Wang, Bin Wang, Wenping Wang, and Xiaohu Guo
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2022
    [Journal Track]
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    IMMAT: Mesh Reconstruction from Single View Images by Medial Axis Transform Prediction
    Jianwei Hu, Gang Chen, Baorong Yang, Ningna Wang, Xiaohu Guo, and Bin Wang
    Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 2022
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    A method of realistic leaves modeling based on point cloud
    Yinghui Wang, Wen Hao, Gang Wang, Xiaojuan Ning, Jing Tang, Zhenghao Shi, Ningna Wang, and Minghua Zhao
    In 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

Fig. 1st Prize CAST STAR Award Winners - Dallas, Texas.
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