Karl Willis
Senior Research Manager
Americas
Biography
Karl D.D. Willis is a Senior Research Manager in the Autodesk AI Lab focused on data-driven design software. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University and has presented his research internationally at conferences such as ICML, CVPR, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM UIST, and ACM CHI. His work at Autodesk has won numerous awards including Fast Company Innovation By Design Honoree and Core77 Design Awards Research and Strategy Honoree.
Areas
Publications (10)
2023
Learned Visual Features to Textual ExplanationsA novel method that leverages the capabilities of large language…
2023
Assemble Them All: Physics-Based Planning for Generalizable Assembly by DisassemblyThis work proposes a novel method to efficiently plan physically…
2022
SimCURL: Simple Contrastive User Representation Learning from Command SequencesUser modeling is crucial to understanding user behavior and essential…
Projects
2019
GAMMA: Space Exploration LanderExploring new approaches to design and manufacturing processes for…
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