Denis Sumin

Denis Sumin is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), Department of Computer Graphics. His work focuses on advancing 3D printing technologies and computer vision through computational methods, with a strong emphasis on material appearance reproduction and scattering-aware fabrication. He holds a Ph.D. student status at the Universität des Saarlandes since 2016, under the Saarland Informatics Campus. His research integrates principles from computer graphics, additive manufacturing, and machine learning to solve challenges in light scattering compensation, material optimization, and object detection.

Education: Ph.D. student in Computer Science (Universität des Saarlandes, 2016–present), Specialist’s degree from Moscow State University (2008–2013), and high school diploma from Lyceum 1533, Moscow (2008).

Research interests include 3D printing, digital fabrication, computer vision, and machine learning. His projects often involve collaborations with industrial partners like Stratasys, focusing on practical implementations of theoretical advancements. Key contributions include scattering-aware texture optimization and neural acceleration techniques for 3D printing processes.

His work has been supported by grants from European Union’s Horizon 2020 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant), ERC (MATERIALIZABLE), and Czech Science Foundation. He has published extensively in top-tier venues like ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), CVPR, and Optics Express, with a focus on bridging computational methods and real-world manufacturing challenges.