Karl Willis
Senior Manager, Research Science
Americas
Biography
Karl D.D. Willis is a Senior Research Manager in the Autodesk AI Lab focused on data-driven design software. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University and has presented his research internationally at conferences such as ICML, CVPR, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM UIST, and ACM CHI. His work at Autodesk has won numerous awards including Fast Company Innovation By Design Honoree and Core77 Design Awards Research and Strategy Honoree.
Areas
Publications (17)
2024
CadVLM: Bridging Language and Vision in the Generation of Parametric CAD SketchesWe harness the capabilities of pre-trained foundation models to…
2024
HG-CAD: Hierarchical Graph Learning for Material Prediction and Recommendation in Computer-Aided DesignThis work presents a new Machine Learning architecture to support…
2023
CAD-LLM: Large Language Model for CAD GenerationThis research presents generating Computer Aided Designs (CAD) using…
Projects
2019
GAMMA: Space Exploration LanderExploring new approaches to design and manufacturing processes for…
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