• COMP 557 Fall 2024, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 602 Fall 2024, Computer Science Seminar 1
• COMP 604 Fall 2024, Graduate School Fundamentals
• COMP 603 Winter 2025, Computer Science Seminar 2
• COMP 273 Winter 2025, Introduction to computer systems.
• COMP 557 (ECSE 532) Winter 2024, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2024, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 (ECSE 532) Winter 2024, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2021, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 273 Winter 2021, Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP 557 (ECSE 532) Fall 2020, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2020, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2019, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2019, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2018, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 273 Fall 2018, Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP 559 Winter 2018, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2018, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2017, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2016, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 273 Fall 2016, Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP 559 Winter 2016, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2015, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 273 Fall 2015, Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP 559 Winter 2014, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 273 Winter 2014, Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP 557 Fall 2013, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2013, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2012, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 273 Fall 2011, Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP 557 Fall 2011, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 559 Winter 2011, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2010, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 599 Winter 2010, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 557 Fall 2009, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• COMP 599 Winter 2009, Fundamentals of Computer Animation
• COMP 202 Fall 2008, Introduction to Computing 1
• COMP 764B Winter 2008, Computer Graphics and Animation

Due to high email volume I cannot respond to all enquiries, so I am more likely to respond to queries from applicants who are a particularly strong fit. Please read the details below, and if you contact me, keep your email brief, informative, and to the point. Include the appropriate tag at the start of your subject line as noted below so that I know you have read this page.

Prospective PhD students

Prospective students who wish to apply directly to the PhD program should ideally have a strong MSc in a closely related area from a reputable lab. Other important attributes that strong applicants will have are previous publication in a recognized computer graphics venue, reference letters from top graphics researchers, or work experience in the graphics industry. Another possible path to becoming a PhD student in my lab is to start an MSc and demonstrate sufficient aptitude and productivity to warrant converting to PhD. It is also possible to complete an MSc before starting a PhD. Please include [Prospective PhD] at the start of your subject line; more information about applications and minimum requirements can be found on the department graduate applications page.

Prospective MSc students

I am interested in working with strong students with computer graphics-related interests and experience. Ideal candidates should be able to demonstrate prior experience and high-level skill in some combination of computer graphics, vision, machine learning, and numerical simulation. Valid experience includes coursework (including my grad course), hobby projects, or internships on topics related to my research area. Please include [Prospective MSc] at the start of your subject line. More information about applications and minimum requirements can be found on the department graduate applications page.

McGill undergraduate internships

If you are interested in computer animation research and have strong marks (high GPA), you should contact me early in the winter term with respect to NSERC USRA or SURA. Alternatively, for course credit, I supervise COMP 400 and 396 projects, during any term, on appropriate topics.

Non-McGill undergraduate internships

I have limited capacity to take on international or non-McGill interns. Nevertheless, if you are a strong match for the lab and interested in an internship, you should first review the relevant MITACS program.

Current Members

• Matheus Araujo, PhD
• Hossam Saeed, PhD (co-supervised with Nowrouzezahrai)
• Yuanyuan Tao, PhD (co-supervised with Nowrouzezahrai)
• QM Ton-That, PhD ETS (co-supervised with Andrews)
• Kaixiang Xie, PhD
• Loic Nassif, PhD (co-supervised with Andrews)
• Daniel Kong, PhD (co-supervised with Nowrouzezahrai)
• Melissa Katz, PhD (co-supervised with Andrews)
• Avery Straumann, MSc
• Katia Brenaut, MSc
• William Dracopoulos, USRA undergrad intern
• William Carbonneau, SURA undergrad intern

Previous Graduate Students and Post Docs

• Andreas Enzenhoefer, MSc (co-supervised with Andrews)
• Alexandre Mercier-Aubin, PhD, now professor at University Sherbrooke
• Yunhao Luo, MSc (co-supervised with Andrews)
• Manas Kale, MSc, went to Cloud Imperium Games
• Kavosh Nakhaie Jazar, MSc, went to Womp
• Yutong Zhang, MSc, went to Cisco
• Henry Ho, MSc, went to CMLabs
• Xinhao Cai, MSc, went to Huawei Canada
• Lita Fan, MSc all but submitted
• Emma Goune, MSc
• Emile Bigot, visiting ENS Paris
• Nick Dudek, MSc, went to Independent Robotics
• Mahyar Bayran, MSc, went to Naisense Solutions
• Eulalie Coevoet, Postdoc, went to University of Naples
• Robert Belfer, MSc, went to Korbit AI
• Frank Zhang, MSc Project
• Adam Bognat, MSc, went to Vantrix
• Yue Wang, MSc (co-supervised with Nowrouzezahrai), went to Ubisoft
• Krisztian Birkas, MSc, went to AIRY3D
• Keren He, MSc project
• Keno Dreßel, visiting MSc (Copenhagen), became freelance Full Stack Developer / ML Consultant
• Vincent Petrella, MSc (co-supervised with Langer), went to Ubisoft and then Rockstar Games
• Tim Olsen, visiting MSc (Copenhagen), went to LEGO
• Sayantan Datta, MSc (co-supervised with Andrews), became PhD at McGill
• Benjamin Verdier, MSc, went to Boston University for PhD
• David Newton, MSc, became Assistant Prof at Nebraska-Lincoln
• Amir Hossein Rabbani, PhD, went to Ubisoft La Forge
• Sheldon Andrews, PhD, Postdoc, became Assistant Prof ETS
• Jian (Ethan) Li, MSc, went to Autodesk
• Xiaozhong Chen, MSc, went to Ubisoft
• Brendan Galea, MSc, went to Facebook
• Ehsan Kia, MSc, went to Google
• Bénédicte Leonard-Cannon, MSc (co-supervised with Pineau), went to Microsoft
• Elias Saad, MSc (co-supervised with Funnell)
• Pengbo Li, MSc, went to TranscenTEC China
• Charles Bouchard, MSc, went to GIRO
• Olivier Remillard, MSc, went to Amazon
• Timothy Drews, MSc (co-supervised with Verbrugge), went to Google
• Simon Courtemanche, visiting PhD student, INRIA, went to Embisphere
• Rami Aladdin, MSc, became CTO SWAG Tech Malaysia
• Cyrus Rahgoshay, MSc, went to CMLabs then Ubisoft
• Yasaman Sedaghat, MSc (co-supervised with Funnell), went to Morgan Stanley
• Victor Cano Becerril, MSc project
• Clement Mattia, MSc (UJF Grenoble)
• Ben Sprott, MSc, went to Lumentum
• Maxime Tournier, visiting PhD student, INRIA, became R&D Engineer at Anatoscope
• Cécile Picard, visiting PhD student, INRIA
• Matthieu Nesme, post doctorate, became CTO Anatoscope

Previous Undergraduates

• Henry Lefebvre, USRA undergrad intern
• Michael Lambiri, undergrad intern
• Victor Jellab-Zelaya, USRA undergrad intern
• Ezzeldin Abouelezz, undergrad intern
• Emma Lee, undergrad intern
• François Pagé, undergrad intern
• Emily Shannon, undergrad intern
• Elliott Kalt, undergrad intern
• Philippe Gauthier, undergrad intern
• Denali Relles, SURA intern
• Alexander Winter, USRA intern
• Otman Benchekroun, undergraduate intern
• Yutong Zhang, SURA intern
• Kejia Ren, Globalink intern
• Charles Gingras, USRA intern
• Paul-Andre Henegar, USRA intern
• Caroline Zhang, USRA intern
• Youri Tamitegama, undergraduate intern
• Thomas Jansen, undergraduate intern
• Joao Cardoso, undergraduate intern
• Franco La Braca, USRA intern
• Monty Thibault, USRA intern
• Cornelius Hart, undergraduate intern (co-supervised)
• Nicholas Aird, undergraduate intern
• Stefan Tihanyi, undergraduate intern
• Marc Jarvis, undergraduate intern
• Galen Voysey, undergraduate intern
• Thomas Ng, undergraduate intern (co-supervised)
• Simon Labute, undergraduate intern
• Gabriel Charette, undergraduate honours project
• Ben Kirwin, NSERC USRA
• Alexandre Senecal, undergraduate intern
• Francis Guérin, undergraduate intern
• Matthew Williams, undergraduate honours project
• Jean-Phillipe April, undergraduate honours project
• Christopher Harvey, undergraduate intern

The lab houses a variety of special equipment, including a 24 camera motion capture system, a set of force plates, a Phantom 1.5 haptic device, an instrumented bouldering wall (currently disassembled to use the 6 force-torque sensors in other applications), consumer DSLR cameras with modified prime lenses for external control, a high speed 1200 fps consumer camera, left and right data gloves, a fleet of crazyflie quadrotor robots, teckscan pressure sensors for hands and feet, high resolution and high frame rate monitors, a laser scanner, 3D printer, and pumps for soft robotics. The is located in MD453/456 within the Center of Intelligent Machines.

• 2026 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: New Frontiers
• 2025 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: New Frontiers
• 2024 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Open Problems for SCA
• 2023 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Open Problems for SCA
• 2022 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Open Problems for SCA
• 2021 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation is canceled due to covid.
• 2020 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Open Problems for SCA
• 2019 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Machine learning applications in computer animation
• 2018 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Simulation and learning from the living world
• 2017 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Inverse modeling problems for physics-based animation
• 2016 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Simulation, Digital Fabrication and Robotics
• 2014 Montreal Fall Graphics Workshop, McGill Gault Nature Reserve
• 2014 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Appearance and Motion
• 2013 Montreal Fall Graphics Retreat - GRAND Café @ McGill Gault Nature Reserve
• 2013 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Physically Based Methods
• 2012 Montreal Fall Graphics Retreat
• 2012 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Pseudospectral Optimal Control for Character Animation
• 2011 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: GRAND Challenges, Animation and Geometry
• 2010 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Reduced Physics, Simulation, and Control
• 2009 Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation: Simulated Humans and Animals

• Canadian Human Computer Communications Society, President, 2013-2025
• ACM SIGGRAPH Director at Large 2016-2019
• ACM SIGGRAPH Specialized Conferences Committee Chair, September 2020-2026
• ACM SIGGRAPH Specialized Conferences Committee member, 2019
• ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Technical sketches and posters advisory board
• ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition Jury 2008, 2009 (chair)
• ACM SIGGRAPH Unified Jury 2008, 2009
• ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA Technical Papers, 2016, 2022, 2025
• ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA Technical Papers COI Coordinator, 2023
• ACM SIGGRAPH Technical Papers 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020
• Eurographics 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017
• Symposium on Computer Animation 2009 (posters chair), 2010, 2011, 2012 (program co-chair), 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 (general co-chair), 2023, 2024 (general co-chair)
• Pacific Graphics 2013, 2019, 2020
• Graphics Interface 2010, 2014 (program co-chair)
• Motion in Games 2013, 2019, 2020
• Computers and Graphics associate editor, 2015-2021
• Computer Graphics Forum associate editor, 2015-2017, 2022-2024

Short Biography

Paul G. Kry is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where he co-heads the Computer Graphics Laboratory. He received his B.Math. from the University of Waterloo and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of British Columbia, followed by postdoctoral work at Inria Rhône-Alpes. His research interests are in computer graphics and physically based animation, with a focus on differentiable, adaptive, and reduced-order simulation methods, including the modeling, simulation, and control of physical systems involving fluids, rigid and deformable bodies, contact, and friction. A central theme of his work is the integration of physical simulation with machine learning to enable efficient computation, control, and automation, with applications in computer animation, interactive simulation, and robotics.

Long Biography

Paul G. Kry is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where he co-heads the Computer Graphics Laboratory. He received his B.Math. in computer science with electrical engineering electives from the University of Waterloo (1997), and his M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) in computer science from the University of British Columbia, where he worked with Dinesh K. Pai and spent time as a visitor at Rutgers University. He subsequently completed postdoctoral work with the EVASION group at Inria Rhône-Alpes and the LNRS at Université René Descartes before joining McGill as an Assistant Professor in January 2008. His research interests are in computer graphics and physically based animation, with a focus on differentiable, adaptive, and reduced-order simulation methods, including the modeling, simulation, and control of physical systems involving fluids, rigid and deformable bodies, contact, and friction. A central theme of his work is the integration of physical simulation with machine learning, including differentiable simulators, neural representations, and learned reduced models that enable efficient computation, control, and automation, with applications in computer animation, interactive simulation, and robotics. He co-chaired the Symposium on Computer Animation in 2012, 2020, and 2024, and Graphics Interface in 2014, and has served numerous times on technical papers program committees for ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH-sponsored specialized conferences. He has served as associate editor for Computer Graphics Forum and Computers and Graphics. He served as a Director at Large on the ACM SIGGRAPH executive committee (2016–2019) and as ACM SIGGRAPH Specialized Conferences Chair (2020–2026), and was president of the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society from 2013 to 2025. He is a recipient of the Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching (McGill, 2018), recognizing outstanding contributions to promoting graduate student excellence through supervision and teaching.