Žiga Kovačič

Teaching

CS 4787: Large Scale Machine Learning (Fall 2025) — Head TA. Distributed ML, large-scale optimization, scalable ML systems.
CS 4782: Introduction to Deep Learning (Spring 2025) — Head TA. Built an autograder from scratch for all assignments.
CS 4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics (Fall 2024) — TA.
CS 4780: Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring 2024) — TA. Received TA Award for outstanding teaching contributions.
CS 2110: Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Spring 2023) — TA.

Projects

MPM Yarn Simulation
Anisotropic elastoplasticity for cloth, knit and hair frictional contact [C. Jiang et al., 2017].
2025
[Code]

XPBD Simulator
PBD solver that simulates cloth, volumetric meshes, and fluids in the same solver. Code coming soon.
2025

MLS-MPM and CPIC
Moving least squares material point method, CPIC, various materials, and mesh extraction in 2D and 3D.
2025
[Code]

Path Tracing in OCaml
Distributive ray tracing, reflections, refractions, volumetrics, emissive objects, and a BVH.
2025
[Code]

Obstruction Removal — SliceSplatting
Modifies Gaussian splatting to remove obstructions blocking objects of interest in 3D scene reconstruction. Code coming soon.
2024

Pen-2-Graph
Generates node-edge graph programs from sketches using vision-language models and differential evolution.
2024
[Code]

Image Space Modal Basis
Implements "Image-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video", extended with modal warping.
2024
[Code]

MelodyMesh
3D music visualizer that deforms meshes based on audio frequencies.
2023
[Code] [Video]