Xiaokang Liu

刘晓康 · CS Postdoctor · Shandong University

I am a PhD graduate at the Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) of Shandong University. My supervisor is Prof. Changhe Tu and my co-supervisor is Prof. Lin Lu. I was fortunate to be awarded the first prize for the best paper at the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2020). Now I am working as a postdoc with Prof. Baoquan Chen at Peking University.

In my spare time, I enjoy basketball, animation and computer games.

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Research Interests

Computer Graphics
Intelligent Manufacturing
Computational Design & Fabrication

Education

Shandong University

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology

2019 – 2024
Shandong University

M.S. in Software Engineering

2016 – 2019
Zhengzhou University

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

2012 – 2016

Publications

Principal Stress Field-guided Optimization for Rib Structure Generation

Longdu Liu, Xiangjun Wu, Jiqiang Huang, Lingxin Cao, Xiaokang Liu, Changhe Tu, Lin Lu

Computer-Aided Design · August 2025

A direct computational framework to optimize adaptive rib layouts on freeform surfaces by extracting networks directly from the principal stress field using centroidal Voronoi tessellation.

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Fabricable Stochastic Periodic Porous Microstructures: A Wang Cube and Gaussian Kernel Approach

Lihao Tian, Zhongren Wang, Xiaokang Liu, Kaifeng Tian, Andrei Sharf, Lin Lu

Additive Manufacturing · April 2025

A framework to generate fabricable, large-scale stochastic porous microstructures that balance smooth connectivity with global randomness using a parameterized dual-layer generative model.

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Auxetic Dihedral Escher Tessellations

Xiaokang Liu, Lin Lu, Lingxin Cao, Oliver Deussen, Changhe Tu

Graphical Models (presented at CVM 2024) · April 2024

A framework to optimize dual-shape tessellations into deployable rotating semi-rigid structures while maintaining shape similarity by introducing a metric function that simultaneously considers rotational degrees of freedom and shape semantics.

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Waiting Time Prediction for Bottom-up Vat Photopolymerization

Lingxin Cao, Lin Lu, Xiaokang Liu, Jian Zhang, Tengfei Jiang, Changhe Tu, Baoquan Chen

Additive Manufacturing · July 2023

A novel waiting time prediction method for bottom-up vat photopolymerization (WTP-VP) that uses a prediction model based on the concept of a prediction feature region.

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Fabricable Multi-Scale Wang Tiles

Xiaokang Liu, Chenran Li, Lin Lu, Oliver Deussen, Changhe Tu

Computer Graphics Forum (presented at SGP 2022) · October 2022

A method to generate fabricable multi-scale Wang Tiles by utilizing a parametric model and a combination tiles generation method to create representative sets of multi-scale tiles.

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Fabricable Dihedral Escher Tessellations

Xiaokang Liu, Lin Lu, Andrei Sharf, Xin Yan, Dani Lischinski, Changhe Tu

CAD 2020 (presented at SPM 2020) · June 2020 · 🏆 Best Paper Award, 1st Place

A method for generating dual-shape tessellations. Given an input image, search for a dual image in the graphic library and optimize both simultaneously to create "mutual-surrounding" dual patterns introduced onto 3D surfaces.