Ana Dodik
Graphics & Society @ MIT CSAIL. Prev. Meta, Disney Research.
Yugo girl, mother of a half-dog, half-tornado, and a baby seal. 🐶🐶 she/her 🌈🌹
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- Reposted by Ana DodikThe ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
- newspaper covers were the original clickbait
- Catch me talking about Meschers at the NeurIPS @neur_reps workshop! anadodik.github.io/publication/meschers
- Tired of senior folks dragging people's posters on socials. Has contentification cooked our sociality so much? Consider alternatives: 1. In-person feedback. 2. Broadly construed feedback. 3. Make resources. 4. Post positive examples. 5. Censor the name. 6. Laugh about it in a groupchat if you must.
- 🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy. Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.
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- 🛫 OMW to NeurIPS! ☕ Let me know if you want to grab coffee! 📐 Exited to see what everyone in geometry, PINNs, or algo fairness has been up to!
- Reposted by Ana DodikSometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
- Reposted by Ana Dodik🎄 Introducing our paper A Generalizable Light Transport 3D Embedding for Global Illumination lnkd.in/gQUMSAyV . 🙈 Just as Transformers learn long-range relationships between words or pixels, our new paper shows they can also learn how light interacts and bounces around a 3D scene.
- I may disagree with Sally Korbluth on many (most?) things, but credit where credit is due.
- Reposted by Ana Dodik"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul
- Finally replied to one of these LLM generated undergrad emails saying they really liked my work on topic XYZ (I have never heard of this stuff let alone worked on it), and asked "What is topic XYZ? :)" I got back an LLM generated output explaining topic XYZ. Chat are we cooked?
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- what are we doing here people?
- Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
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- alternatively, replying to emails
- Anyone here have experience PyPI packaging of custom nanobind bindings for CUDA code specifically? I'm fairly good at pybind/nanobind for standard C++ stuff, but I don't even know where to start for GPU code, especially one that links to Nvidia's proprietary libraries. pls halp 🙏🙏🙏
- My old rendering paper made it into the history of path guiding at the SIGGRAPH course! 😍
- Ok but seriously now, why is SIGGRAPH North America never in Mexico? Seems like a fantastic option.
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- The Meschers talk is tomorrow! "Shapes, Surfaces & Forms" 3:45 – 5:35 PM West Building, Rooms 220-222!
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- Meschers got picked up by Gizmodo! gizmodo.com/meet-mescher... Thanks to @gayoung.bsky.social for the story!
- The name is truly the biggest scientific contribution I've ever been involved in, stroke of brilliance on Kartik's part.
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- Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...
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- I hope they make it tone down the em dashes so I can go back to overusing them without fear of people assuming I'm a slopper.
- I really like this idea!
- Physically-based differentiable rendering enables inverse rendering, but handling visibility is hard. Our SIGGRAPH 2025 paper uses quadrics to importance sample silhouette edges--outperforming all existing unidirectional differentiable path tracers. momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2025...
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- Reposted by Ana DodikFriends, we got a call to action 👇 We have the right to know when and how our creative works are used, especially when it comes to GenAi! This is why we need regulation like California’s Ai Copyright Transparency Act #AB-412 ! If you agree, especially if in CA, please sign & share this petition!
- why is every shower user interface in the US completely unique? my airbnb has two twisty knobs on opposing walls, neither of which controls the water pressure. madness.
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- 🚨🚨 WiGRAPH CONFERENCE COFFEE @ SIGGRAPH '25 🚨🚨 Sign up now to be randomly matched with peers for a SIGGRAPH conference coffee!
- genius
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