Maria Larsson, PhD
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Project Assistant Professor
User Interface Research Group
Department of Creative Informatics
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
The University of Tokyo
E-mail: ma.ka.larsson@gmail.com
I am a Project Assistant Professor the Department of Creative Informatics at the University of Tokyo,
supported by VXE
and ACT-X.
My research aims at developing computational design systems for sustainable manufacturing,
focusing on generative and inverse modeling of 3D geometries and material textures, subtractive manufacturing, and user interface design.
I received my Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in 2023,
advised by Takeo Igarashi,
and have presented technical papers at several international conferences including SIGGRAPH and UIST.
I have an interdisciplinary background spanning technology, design, and humanities.
I have worked as an architectural designer with
Pool Architekten in Switzerland
and the Digital Design Lab of Nikken Sekkei in Japan.
I hold an M.Eng. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo and a B.A. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University.
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Publications
Short technical paper
🆕 A Design and Fabrication Workflow for Upcycling Leftover Fabrics
International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) 2024
Musashi Shinjo, Maria Larsson, and Hironori Yoshida
[PDF]
Technical paper
🆕 Learned Inference of Annual Ring Patterns of Solid Wood
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2024
Maria Larsson,* Takashi Ijiri,* I-Chao Shen, Hironori Yoshida, Ariel Shamir, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [DOI]
Ph.D. Thesis
Computational Carpentry: Material- and Fabrication-aware Design Systems
The University of Tokyo, 2023
Adviser: Takeo Igarashi
[Abstract PDF] [Abstract PDF (JP)]
Technical paper
Procedural Texturing of Solid Wood with Knots
Transactions on Graphics (TOG) / SIGGRAPH 2022
Maria Larsson, Takashi Ijiri, Hironori Yoshida, Johannes Huber, Magnus Fredriksson, Olof Broman, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI] [Project page]
Technical paper
Tsugite: Interactive Design and Fabrication of Wood Joints
User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2020
Maria Larsson, Hironori Yoshida, Nobuyuki Umetani, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI] [Project page] [GitHub ☆ 400+ stars]
Technical paper
Human-in-the-loop Fabrication of 3D Surfaces with Natural Tree Branches
Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) 2019
Maria Larsson, Hironori Yoshida, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI]
Short technical paper
Upcycling Tree Branches as Architectural Elements
Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2019
Hironori Yoshida, Maria Larsson, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI]
Other (non-peer-reviewed) writing:
Blog post
Updating the art of joinery for the 21st century
Medium, Oct 10, 2020
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Invited article
中銀カプセルタワーに住んでいた留学生から見た日本の生活 (JP)
English title: "Life in Japan as seen from a student from overseas who lived in the Nakagin Capsule Tower"
RE No. 184 / Building Maintenance and Management Center (BMMC), Oct 1, 2014
Grants & Awards
- 🆕 ACT-X [Math and Info], Acceleration Phase,
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 2024
- KAKENHI Research Start-Up Grant, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2023-2024
- Rising Star in Computer Graphics,
WiGRAPH (SIGGRAPH Community Group), 2022-2023
- ACT-X [Math and Info],
JST, 2021-2023
- Dr. Tech. Marcus Wallenberg Foundation Scholarship, 2012-2013
- Harvard Academic All-Ivy League Award, 2009
Exhibitions
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🆕 Tsugite and Reconfigurable Joinery, Mercari R4D, Science Agora Exhibition,
Tokyo, 2024-10-26/27
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Tsugite Joinery, Science Gallery,
The University of Tokyo, 2022-present
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Tsugite Joinery,
WOOD CHANGE Exhibition,
Tokyo/Nagoya/Kyoto, 2020
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Swirled Branches,
Digitally Natural - Naturally Digital,
Miraikan The National Museum of Emerging Science & Innovation,
Tokyo, 2019-present (pictured →)
- SXSW Interactive Show with
Todai To Texas,
Austin, 2018
- Master's thesis project exhibited at Lemon Exhibition at Meji University (Tokyo, 2014)
and featured in video for Centre Pompidou's Advances in Architectural Geometry (Paris, 2012)
Design Work
- Hardturm New Areal,
a football stadium building, Pool Architekten 2017
- Campus Biel/Bienne,
wood building, Pool Architekten, 2015-2017 (pictured →)
- Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium,
Zaha Hadid version, Nikken Sekkei, 2014-2015
- Design competition, Liljevalchs Art Gallery,
Kengo Kuma and Associates, 2014
- Kv Jacob, office building extension,
White Arkitekter, 2009-2010
Media
- 🆕 SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 branding design (JP),
Takram Blog post, 2024-01-01
- Doctoral Dissertation Summary (JP),
Recommended Doctoral Dissertation Bulletin, Information Processing Society Japan (IPSJ), 2023-08-15
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Swedish Wood Magazine Trä (pp. 34-35), 2021-12-01
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Designboom, 2021-04-13
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ITmedia News, 2021-04-08
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Le Monde, 2020-11-11 (pictured →)
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Tech Breifs, 2020-10-30
- Hackaday, 2020-10-23
- SciTechDaily, 2020-10-21
Presentations
- 🆕 Paper presentation, International Invitation Session, Visual Computing (VC), Tokyo, 2024-09-12
- 🆕 Keynote, Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF), Aarhus, Denmark, 2024-07-08
- Selected presentation, Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS) Annual Conference, Kyoto, 2024-03-13
- Invited presentation, Symposium on Computational Carpentry, Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, 2024-02-12
- Paper presentation, Top Conference Session, Information Science and Technology Forum (FIT), Osaka, 2023-09-08
- Paper presentation, SIGGRAPH Invited Lecture Session, Visual Computing (VC), Kyoto, 2022-10-07
- Invited lecture, Advanced Design Group, Obayashi Corporation, online, 2022-07-26
- Invited lecture, Invited lecture VTID Lecture Series, Virginia Tech, online, 2022-03-18
- Paper presentation, Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS) , Hamanako, 2021-12-09
- Invited presentation, Toronto Geometry Colloquium, University of Toronto, online, 2021-02-17
- Selected presentation, Young Series, Digital Futures, online, 2020-08-22
Service
- 🆕 Local Organizing Committee, CCADIA, Tokyo, 2025
- 🆕 Excecutive Committee - External Events Coordinator, WiGRAPH, 2024-present
- 🆕 Co-Organizer, Bring your own bunny (or something) BoF, SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024
- 🆕 Technical Papers Committee, SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023, 2024
- 🆕 Technical Papers Committee, Pacific Graphics, 2024
- Session Chair, Pacific Graphics, Kyoto, 2022
- Reviewer: SIGGRAPH, UIST, SCF, CHI, TEI, DIS, ACADIA, CAADRIA, C&C