SIGGRAPH Asia Women in Research Coffee

This is a networking event at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 in Hong Kong for students, faculty, and industry researchers organized by WiGRAPH. The purpose of the event is to broaden the network of women researchers and provide a friendly and personal environment where students and researchers can interact. The event is open to all researchers, regardless of gender.

The event will feature a panel of three inspiring researchers, discussing their diverse experiences of research careers and environments. We invite you to contribute to the discussion through an open Q&A session after the panel. We're giving the option to pre-submit questions prior to the event through this form:

Submit questions

We will select a few of the pre-submitted questions to ask directly to the panelists. Please note that there might not be enough time to ask all submitted questions. This form will be closed before the event starts, and it will also be possible to raise your hand and directly ask questions during the Q&A session.

Details

Event Date: Wednesday, December 17th from 5:00–6:30 pm HKT.

Location: This event is co-located with SIGGRAPH Asia at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Room S222.

Please note that participation in this event also requires SIGGRAPH Asia registration (at minimum Exhibit & Experience Access).

Panelists

• 
  Melina Skouras
  Research Scientist
  Inria

  Melina Skouras is a researcher at Inria Grenoble where she leads the CRAFT team. She previously completed a postdoc on the computational design of metamaterials at MIT. She earned her PhD from the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich in 2014, where she developed novel algorithms for designing custom deformable objects. She also worked as a software developer at Dassault Systèmes in the CATIA Geometric Modeler team.

• 
  Xuejin Chen
  Professor
  University of Science and Technology of China

  Xuejin Chen obtained her Ph.D. and B.S degree in University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2008 and 2003. She also has experience of working with the Visual Computing Group in Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), the Computer Graphics Lab at Yale, and the Geometric Computation group at Stanford University. Her research interests include image-based 3D modeling, AIGC, and biomedical image analysis. She has authored or co-authored over 90 publications, including ACM ToG, TVCG, ICCV, CVPR. She served as TPC members of Siggraph Asia, AC of ICCV, and now serves as an Associated Editor of IEEE TIP.

• 
  Elena Garces
  Senior Research Scientist
  Adobe

  Elena's research interests span the fields of computer graphics, computer vision, and applied machine learning. In particular, she currently works on digitization (optics & physics) of fabric materials, machine learning-based simulations of garments, and 3D scene reconstruction. She is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Paris since June 2024. She completed her PhD in 2016 in the Graphics and Imaging Lab of the University of Zaragoza, and also has experience from Rey Juan Carlos University and the textile-tech company SEDDI.

Organizers

• 
  Ruizhen Hu
  Professor
  Shenzhen University
• 
  Maria Larsson
  Project Assistant Professor
  The University of Tokyo

Sponsors

This event is made possible thanks to our sponsors:

• Platinum: Adobe
• Gold: Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation