Making AI tools that sharpen design judgment.

        @article{taohappened,
  title={What Happened and Why? Trace-Guided Micro-Episodes with Elicited User Explanations for Product Iteration},
  author={TAO, SIRUI and MCCARTHY, WILLIAM P and DOW, STEVEN P}
}

        

        @inproceedings{wang2025hotspot,
  title = {HotSpot: Signed Distance Function Optimization with an Asymptotically Sufficient Condition},
  author = {Wang, Zimo and Wang, Cheng and Yoshino, Taiki and Tao, Sirui and Fu, Ziyang and Li, Tzu-Mao},
  booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Highlight)},
  month = jun,
  year = {2025},
}

        

        @inproceedings{tao2024designweaver,
  title = {DesignWeaver: Dimensional Scaffolding for Text-to-Image Product Design},
  author = {Tao, Sirui and Liang, Ivan and Peng, Cindy and Wang, Zhiqing and Palani, Srishti and Dow, Steven},
  booktitle = {Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  month = apr,
  year = {2025},
}

        

        @inproceedings{bear2021physion,
  author = {Bear, Daniel and Wang, Elias and Mrowca, Damian and Binder, Felix and Tung, Hsiao-Yu and RT, Pramod and Holdaway, Cameron and Tao, Sirui and Smith, Kevin and Sun, Fan-Yun and Li, Fei-Fei and Kanwisher, Nancy and Tenenbaum, Josh and Yamins, Dan and Fan, Judith},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks},
  editor = {Vanschoren, J. and Yeung, S.},
  url = {https://datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/d09bf41544a3365a46c9077ebb5e35c3-Abstract-round1.html},
  title = {Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines},
  volume = {1},
  month = dec,
  year = {2021},
}