rebecca lin

I am a first-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. Erik Demaine. My research interests lie in computational geometry and geometry processing. I love learning about shapes and structures, particularly in the context of art, design, and fabrication.

I earned my B.Sc. from UBC, during which I was advised by Profs. Will Evans, Craig Kaplan, and Alla Sheffer. I was also fortunate to intern at Microsoft (2019, 2020), Cisco (2019), and BCCHR (2018).

news

09/2022: Applying to grad school? See MIT EECS GAAP and other resources.
05/2022: I am spending my summer studying misinformation with Prof. Nick Harvey.
04/2022: I will be joining MIT EECS as a PhD student and Presidential Fellow this fall.
03/2022: I'm presenting my first ever paper paper at WALCOM 2022.

work

Detecting Viewer-Perceived Intended Vector Sketch Connectivity
Jerry Yin*, Chenxi Liu*, Rebecca Lin, Nicholas Vining, Helge Rhodin, Alla Sheffer
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH North America), 2022

paper project page

The Polygon Burning Problem
(α-β) William Evans and Rebecca Lin
WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation, 2022

paper arXiv slides

play

	On My Desk >> A collection of experiments relating to art, craft, and coding.
	Life in Doodles >> My practices in storytelling: visual anecdotes, comics, and illustrations.

misc

Here are some notes on writing a statement of purpose for graduate school applications.
My siblings Esther, Josh, and Sam do neat work. Sometimes we collaborate.
I explore connections between art and computing in my teaching and outreach.

Updated January 2023