About

I’m a Computer Science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Keenan Crane. I'm broadly interested in designing new algorithms for geometric computing, taking inspiration from fields such as differential geometry, stochastic calculus and optimal control. My current research explores how core problems in PDE-based geometric computing can be efficiently and reliably solved via grid-free Monte Carlo methods without any volumetric mesh generation, taking inspiration from photorealistic rendering.


I was awarded the Nvidia Graduate Fellowship and the Carnegie Mellon Graduate Presidential Fellowship for my work. Previously, I worked at IrisVR, Inc. as a core graphics engineer and received my Bachelor’s in Physics and Computer Science from Columbia University. Find my CV here.

Recent Work

Decorrelating ReSTIR Samplers via MCMC Mutations

Sawhney, Lin, Kettunen, Bitterli, Ramamoorthi, Wyman, Pharr

ACM Transactions on Graphics (2023)

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Walk on Stars: Grid-Free Monte Carlo for Neumann Boundary Conditions

Sawhney*, Miller*, Gkioulekas, Crane

ACM Transactions on Graphics (2023)

Paper  |  Code  |  Tutorial  |  Talk

Boundary Value Caching for Walk on Spheres

Miller*, Sawhney*, Crane, Gkioulekas

ACM Transactions on Graphics (2023)

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Grid-Free Monte Carlo for PDEs with Spatially Varying Coefficients

Sawhney*, Seyb*, Jarosz, Crane

ACM Transactions on Graphics (2022)

Best Paper (Honorable Mention)

Paper  |  Supplemental  |  Code  |  Talk

Monte Carlo Geometry Processing

Sawhney, Crane

ACM Transactions on Graphics (2020)

Paper  |  Project Page  |  Talk

Boundary First Flattening

Sawhney, Crane

ACM Transactions on Graphics (2018)

SGP Best Software Award (2019)

Paper  |  Project Page  |  Talk  |  Web Demo

FCPW

Header only C++ library for fast vectorized closest point queries

Project Page

geometry-processing-js

Fast & flexible framework for 3D geometry processing on the web

Project Page

linear-algebra-js

Sparse & dense matrix routines with Cholesky, LU & QR support on the web

Project Page

Misc.

Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning agents playing tag

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Medial Axis Transform

Undergrad. research project on computing medial axis

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