Faculty

Adriana Schulz is an assistant professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she is a member of the Computer Graphics Group (GRAIL). She is also co-director of the Digital Fabrication Center at UW (DFab) and the director of WiGRAPH.

Schulz’s research group creates design tools and systems that will revolutionize how we build physical artifacts. A central challenge for design tools in manufacturing is the need to simultaneously nurture the creative ability to conceive novel designs and the analytical capacity to critically evaluate and optimize functionality and production. Her group tackles this challenge through innovative solutions that are grounded in the fundamentals of geometry processing and combine insights from machine learning and programming languages.

Schulz’s research has been recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 award, an NSF CAREER award, and faculty awards from Google, Amazon, and Intel, among others. She is also honored to have received the 2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.