Bio
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Computational Design & Fabrication Group at MIT CSAIL, supervised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. Before coming to MIT, I received my M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Dahua Lin. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University.
My research focuses on addressing the challenges of scientific discovery and 3D content creation, where the validity, functionality, and efficiency of generated results are paramount. I draw on insights from procedural modeling and geometry processing to develop fundamental representations and generative models, which inherently enforce necessary constraints without excluding any valid solutions, ensuring both data efficiency and the preservation of critical properties.
Selected Initiatives
Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts
Peter Yichen Chen*,
Minghao Guo*,
Hanspeter Pfister,
Ming Lin,
William Freeman,
Qixing Huang,
Han-wei Shen,
Wojciech Matusik
SIGGRAPH Course 2025
Selected Publications on Generative Graphics
TetSphere Splatting: Representing High-Quality Geometry with Lagrangian Volumetric Meshes
Minghao Guo*,
Bohan Wang*,
Kaiming He,
Wojciech Matusik
ICLR 2025
Oral Presentation [acceptance rate: 1.8%]
Physically Compatible 3D Object Modeling from a Single Image
Minghao Guo,
Bohan Wang,
Pingchuan Ma,
Tianyuan Zhang,
Crystal Elaine Owens,
Chuang Gan,
Joshua B. Tenenbaum,
Kaiming He,
Wojciech Matusik
NeurIPS 2024
Spotlight
Medial Skeletal Diagram: A Generalized Medial Axis Approach for 3D Shape Representation
Minghao Guo*,
Bohan Wang*,
Wojciech Matusik
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (Journal Track)
Variational Quasi-harmonic Maps for Computing Diffeomorphisms
Yu Wang,
Minghao Guo,
Justin Solomon
SIGGRAPH 2023 (Journal Track)
Pareto Gamuts: Exploring Optimal Designs Across Varying Contexts
Liane Makatura,
Minghao Guo,
Adriana Schulz,
Justin Solomon,
Wojciech Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics 2021 (SIGGRAPH 2021)
Selected Publications on Scientific Discovery
Procedural Synthesis of Synthesizable Molecules
Michael Sun,
Alston Lo,
Minghao Guo,
Jie Chen,
Connor W. Coley,
Wojciech Matusik
ICLR 2025
Representing Molecules as Random Walks Over Interpretable Grammars
Michael Sun,
Minghao Guo,
Weize Yuan,
Veronika Thost,
Crystal Elaine Owens,
Aristotle Franklin Grosz,
Sharvaa Selvan,
Katelyn Zhou,
Hassan Mohiuddin,
Benjamin J Pedretti,
Zachary P Smith,
Jie Chen,
Wojciech Matusik
ICML 2024
Spotlight
LLM and Simulation as Bilevel Optimizers: A New Paradigm to Advance Physical Scientific Discovery
Pingchuan Ma,
Tsun-Hsuan Wang,
Minghao Guo,
Zhiqing Sun,
Joshua B. Tenenbaum,
Daniela Rus,
Chuang Gan,
Wojciech Matusik
ICML 2024
Hierarchical Grammar-Induced Geometry for Data-Efficient Molecular Property Prediction
Minghao Guo,
Veronika Thost,
Samuel Song,
Adithya Balachandran,
Payel Das,
Jie Chen,
Wojciech Matusik
ICML 2023
Data-Efficient Graph Grammar Learning for Molecular Generation
Minghao Guo,
Veronika Thost,
Beichen Li,
Payel Das,
Jie Chen,
Wojciech Matusik
ICLR 2022
Oral Presentation [acceptance rate: 1.6%]
PolyGrammar: Grammar for Digital Polymer Representation and Generation
Minghao Guo,
Liane Makatura,
Wan Shou,
Timothy Erps,
Michael Foshey,
Wojciech Matusik
Advanced Science
Education & Experience
Ph.D. Student, Computational Design & Fabrication Group, CSAIL MIT, Sep. 2021 - Present
Advisor: Prof. Wojciech MatusikResearch Intern, Roblox, May 2024 - Aug. 2024
Manager: Dr. Hsueh-Ti Derek LiuResearch Intern, Meta Platforms, Inc., June 2023 - Sep. 2023
Managers: Dr. Christian Häne and Dr. Tong XiaoM.Phil. Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2021
Advisors: Prof. Dahua Lin and Prof. Ziwei LiuVision Researcher, SenseTime Research, Aug. 2018 - July 2019
Managers: Dr. Zhao Zhong, Dr. Wei Wu, and Dr. Junjie YanIntelligent Vision Group, Tsinghua University, Mar. 2017 - July 2018
Advisor: Prof. Jiwen LuB.Eng. in Automation, Tsinghua University, Aug. 2014 - July 2018