David Hyde

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
dabh -at- alumni.stanford.edu

Brief bio: David Hyde is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He was first a Regents Scholar at UCSB, earning a B.S. in Mathematics with highest honors at age 19. Hyde then earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science (with Distinction in Teaching) from Stanford, where he was a DoD NDSEG Fellow and a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellow. He also earned M.S. degrees in computer science and applied math. Most recently, David was a PIC Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Hyde's research has been supported by organizations including DARPA, the Department of Energy, and the Army Research Lab. He is a recipient of the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award and was a SIAM Science Policy Fellow from 2022-2024. Hyde has also helped build successful technology companies and invests in startups via Brave Capital.
Full CV available upon request.

Research keywords: Computational Physics, Computer Graphics, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Cyberinfrastructure

Research summary: Professor Hyde leads the Simulation, Optimization, and Learning (SOL) laboratory at Vanderbilt University. His group creates new algorithms and numerical methods for problems in and at the intersections of these three fields. A particular emphasis is on developing techniques for simulating physical phenomena that involve solids and fluids. These simulations are useful for engineering and computer graphics, as well as for providing data and constraints for learning-based systems. Hyde and his group also build cloud computing platforms, create scalable heterogeneous implementations of algorithms, and develop practical software, libraries, and datasets relevant to their research focus. The SOL lab ultimately seeks to illuminate the synergies between simulation, learning, and data, and to leverage these connections to solve complex real-world challenges.

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I am actively recruiting one postdoc or Ph.D. student for January/August 2025 who is interested in the same topics I am. Please email me!

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Publications

Compelling ReLU Network Initialization and Training to Leverage Exponential Scaling with Depth

M. Milkert, D. Hyde, F. Laine

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Anvil: An integration of artificial intelligence, sampling techniques, and a combined CAD-CFD tool

H. Vardhan, U. Timalsina, M. Sandborn, D. Hyde, P. Volgyesi, J. Sztipanovits
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT (DESTION 2024), 2024

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Toward Improving Boussinesq Flow Simulations by Learning with Compressible Flow

N. Mangnike and D. Hyde
PASC '24: Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference, 2024

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Sample-Efficient and Surrogate-Based Design Optimization of Underwater Vehicle Hulls

H. Vardhan, D. Hyde, U. Timalsina, P. Volgyesi, J. Sztipanovits

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The Pandemic did not Interrupt LA's Violence Interrupters

J. Ren, K. Santoso, D. Hyde, A. Bertozzi, P. Brantingham
Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 2022

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A Deep Conjugate Direction Method for Iteratively Solving Linear Systems

A. Kaneda, O. Akar, J. Chen, V. Kala, D. Hyde, J. Teran
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

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A Robust Grid-Based Meshing Algorithm for Embedding Self-Intersecting Surfaces

S. Gagniere, Y. Han, Y. Chen, D. Hyde, A. Marquez-Razon, J. Teran, R. Fedkiw
Computer Graphics Forum, 2023

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Cross-Technology Innovation Trends and Evidence with Patent and Funding Data

D. Hyde and E. Fu
World Patent Information, 2022

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A Momentum-Conserving Implicit Material Point Method for Surface Tension with Contact Angles and Spatial Gradients

J. Chen, V. Kala, A. Marquez-Razon, E. Gueidon, D. Hyde, J. Teran
ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH 2021 Technical Papers), 2021

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Emotion Classification and Textual Clustering Techniques for Gang Intervention Data

R. Wu, C. Yang, D. Hyde, A. Bertozzi, P. Brantingham
Data Science for Smart and Connected Communities Workshop, IEEE Big Data, 2020

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Analyzing Effectiveness of Gang Interventions using Koopman Operator Theory

S. Wen, A. Chen, T. Bhatia, N. Liskij, D. Hyde, A. Bertozzi, P. Brantingham
Data Science for Smart and Connected Communities Workshop, IEEE Big Data, 2020

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On Obtaining Sparse Semantic Solutions for Inverse Problems, Control, and Neural Network Training

D. Hyde, M. Bao, R. Fedkiw
Journal of Computational Physics, 2021

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An Implicit Updated Lagrangian Formulation for Liquids with Large Surface Energy

D. Hyde, S. Gagniere, A. Marquez-Razon, J. Teran
ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Technical Papers), 2020

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Improved Search Strategies with Application to Estimating Facial Blendshape Parameters

M. Bao, D. Hyde, X. Hua, R. Fedkiw

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A Hybrid Lagrangian/Eulerian Collocated Velocity Advection and Projection Method for Fluid Simulation

S. Gagniere, D. Hyde, A. Marquez-Razon, C. Jiang, Z. Ge, X. Han, Qi Guo, J. Teran
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2020 (SCA 2020)), 2020

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Assessing the Effects of Failure Alerts on Transitions of Control from Autonomous Driving Systems

E. Fu, D. Hyde, S. Sibi, M. Johns, M. Fischer, D. Sirkin
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2020), 2020-10

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Is Too Much System Caution Counterproductive? Effects of Varying Sensitivity and Automation Levels in Vehicle Collision Avoidance Systems

E. Fu, M. Johns, D. Hyde, S. Sibi, M. Fischer, D. Sirkin
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

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A Unified Approach to Monolithic Solid-Fluid Coupling of Sub-Grid and More Resolved Solids

D. Hyde and R. Fedkiw
Journal of Computational Physics, 2019-08

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VRGE: An Immersive Visualization Application for the Geosciences

D. Hyde, T. Hall, J. Caers
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Scientific Visualization (SciVis '18), 2018

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Assessing and Visualizing Uncertainty of 3D Geological Surfaces Using Level Sets with Stochastic Motion

L. Yang, D. Hyde, O. Grujic, C. Scheidt, J. Caers
Computers and Geosciences, 2019-01

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Distributing and Load Balancing Sparse Fluid Simulations

C. Shah, D. Hyde, H. Qu, P. Levis
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2018 (SCA 2018)), 2018

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Sharp Interface Approaches and Deep Learning Techniques for Multiphase Flows

F. Gibou, D. Hyde, R. Fedkiw
Journal of Computational Physics, 2019

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FRC: A High-Performance Concurrent Parallel Deferred Reference Counter for C++

C. Tripp, D. Hyde, B. Grossman-Ponemon
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM '18), 2018

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A Robust Volume Conserving Method for Character-Water Interaction

M. Lee, D. Hyde, K. Li, R. Fedkiw
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2019 (SCA 2019), 2019

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A Skinned Tetrahedral Mesh for Hair Animation and Hair-Water Interaction

M. Lee, D. Hyde, M. Bao, R. Fedkiw
IEEE TVCG, 2018

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Knotting Fingerprints Resolve Knot Complexity and Knotting Pathways in Ideal Knots

D. Hyde, J. Henrich, E. Rawdon, K. Millett
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (Special Issue on Knots), 2015

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We gratefully acknowledge support from the following organizations:
ARL DoD DoE BHP VentureWell DARPA NSF