Ruben Wiersma

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich in the Interactive Geometry Lab since September 2024 and will start as a research scientist at Adobe Research in the Paris lab in June 2026. My research topics include computer graphics, geometry processing, and machine learning.
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Current community activities
Publications
SIGGRAPH 2025, April 2025
Article by R. Wiersma, J. Philip, M. Hasan, K. Mullia, F. Luan, E. Eisemann, V. Deschaintre
SIGGRAPH 2025 (ToG), April 2025
Article by A. Binninger, R. Wiersma, Philipp Herholz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
PhD Thesis, October 2024
PhD Thesis by R.T. Wiersma
SIGGRAPH 2023, June 2023
Article by R. Wiersma, A. Nasikun (equal contribution); E. Eisemann and K. Hildebrandt
Digital Humanities Quarterly, February 2023
Journal by L. Tissen, S. Frequin, R. Wiersma
Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage 2022, September 2022
⭐ Awarded Best Full Paper
InProceedings by J. vd Toorn, R. Wiersma, A. Vandivere, R. Marroquim and E. Eisemann
SIGGRAPH 2022 (ToG), May 2022
Article by R. Wiersma, A. Nasikun, E. Eisemann and K. Hildebrandt
CVPR 2022, March 2022
Article by Y. Lin, R. Wiersma, S. L. Pintea, K. Hildebrandt, E. Eisemann and J. C. van Gemert
Heritage Science, July 2020
Article by J. Wembe, R. van den Brink, E. Mooldijk, N. Feirabend, R. Wiersma, J. Sietsma and J. Dik
SIGGRAPH 2020 (ToG), April 2020
Article by R. Wiersma, E. Eisemann and K. Hildebrandt
SIGCSE ’20, February 2020
InProceedings by G. Migut and R. Wiersma
Master Thesis, October 2019
MastersThesis by R. Wiersma
Talks and presentations
1st July 2025, SGP 2025 Graduate School
Deep Learning on Meshes and Point Clouds
5th February 2025, Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing Workshop Oberwolfach
Intrinsic Approaches to Learning and Computing on Curved Surfaces
15th October 2024, PhD Defense TU Delft
Intrinsic Approaches to Learning and Computing on Curved Surfaces
28th February 2024, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Invited talk: Intrinsic Approaches to Learning and Computing on Curved Surfaces
23rd February 2024, ETH Zürich
Invited talk: Intrinsic Approaches to Learning and Computing on Curved Surfaces
19th February 2024, ISTA Vienna
Invited talk: Intrinsic Approaches to Learning and Computing on Curved Surfaces
October 2023, Johns Hopkins University
Lecture:
Introduction to Blender for Students in Computer Graphics
28th September 2022, Eurographics GCH 2022
Conference talk:
A New Baseline for Feature Description on Multimodal Imaging of Paintings
Best Full Paper Award
10th August 2022, SIGGRAPH
Technical papers presentation:
DeltaConv: Anisotropic Operators for Geometric Deep Learning on Point Clouds
6th April 2022, UChicago 3DL group
Invited talk:
DeltaConv: Anisotropic Operators for Geometric Deep Learning on Point Clouds
29th September 2021, Mathematics and Art symposium at DMV ÖMG Annual Conference 2021
Symposium talk:
Communicating Perspective in 17th Century Paintings to Modern Audiences.
17th May 2021, Utrecht University
Lecture on applications of computer graphics to painting analysis for bachelor students in art history.
Seminar talk: applications of computer graphics to painting analysis.
14th May 2020, Stanford Guibas Lab
Invited talk:
CNNs on Surfaces using Rotation-Equivariant Features
July 2020, SIGGRAPH
Technical papers presentation:
CNNs on Surfaces using Rotation-Equivariant Features