2026 Eftychios Sifakis: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	30	13976	13546	5553	5279	71	4795

Overview

Eftychios Sifakis is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

The scientist has contributed to the following topics in their work:

Face recognition and analysis
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Matrix Theory and Algorithms
Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics

Eftychios Sifakis has published in several venues, with a frequent presence in the following:

ACM Transactions on Graphics (9 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (6 publications)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)
Nature Communications (1 publication)
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (1 publication)

Their recent papers include:

Low-latency time-of-flight non-line-of-sight imaging at 5 frames per second, 2021, Nature Communications
Fibrillar Collagen Quantification With Curvelet Transform Based Computational Methods, 2020, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Functional optimization of fluidic devices with differentiable stokes flow, 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics
Learning active quasistatic physics-based models from data, 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics
Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects, 2022, ACM Transactions on Graphics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Yutian Tao (5 collaborations)
Hyojoon Park (5 collaborations)
Yuming Liu (4 collaborations)
Kevin W. Eliceiri (4 collaborations)
Sangeetha Srinivasan (4 collaborations)

Best Publications

Automatic determination of facial muscle activations from sparse motion capture marker data

Eftychios Sifakis;Igor Neverov;Ronald Fedkiw

496
Citations
FEM simulation of 3D deformable solids: a practitioner's guide to theory, discretization and model reduction

Eftychios Sifakis;Jernej Barbic

358
Citations
Creating and simulating skeletal muscle from the visible human data set

J. Teran;E. Sifakis;S.S. Blemker;V. Ng-Thow-Hing

327
Citations
Robust quasistatic finite elements and flesh simulation

Joseph Teran;Eftychios Sifakis;Geoffrey Irving;Ronald Fedkiw

286
Citations
Efficient elasticity for character skinning with contact and collisions

Aleka McAdams;Yongning Zhu;Andrew Selle;Mark Empey

275
Citations
Comprehensive biomechanical modeling and simulation of the upper body

Sung-Hee Lee;Eftychios Sifakis;Demetri Terzopoulos

230
Citations
Efficient elasticity for character skinning with contact and collisions

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206
Citations
A parallel multigrid Poisson solver for fluids simulation on large grids

A. McAdams;E. Sifakis;J. Teran

179
Citations
Hybrid simulation of deformable solids

Eftychios Sifakis;Tamar Shinar;Geoffrey Irving;Ronald Fedkiw

166
Citations
Arbitrary cutting of deformable tetrahedralized objects

Eftychios Sifakis;Kevin G. Der;Ronald Fedkiw

165
Citations
Simulating speech with a physics-based facial muscle model

Eftychios Sifakis;Andrew Selle;Avram Robinson-Mosher;Ronald Fedkiw

137
Citations
An efficient multigrid method for the simulation of high-resolution elastic solids

Yongning Zhu;Eftychios Sifakis;Joseph Teran;Achi Brandt

132
Citations
SPGrid: a sparse paged grid structure applied to adaptive smoke simulation

Rajsekhar Setaluri;Mridul Aanjaneya;Sean Bauer;Eftychios Sifakis

128
Citations
An XFEM method for modeling geometrically elaborate crack propagation in brittle materials

Casey L. Richardson;Casey L. Richardson;Jan Hegemann;Eftychios Sifakis;Jeffrey Hellrung

123
Citations
A second order virtual node method for elliptic problems with interfaces and irregular domains

Jacob Bedrossian;James H. von Brecht;Siwei Zhu;Eftychios Sifakis

112
Citations
GPU optimization of material point methods

Ming Gao;Xinlei Wang;Kui Wu;Andre Pradhana

101
Citations
A second order virtual node method for elliptic problems with interfaces and irregular domains in three dimensions

Jeffrey Lee Hellrung;Luming Wang;Eftychios Sifakis;Joseph M. Teran

100
Citations
Detail preserving continuum simulation of straight hair

Aleka McAdams;Andrew Selle;Kelly Ward;Eftychios Sifakis

92
Citations
An adaptive generalized interpolation material point method for simulating elastoplastic materials

Ming Gao;Andre Pradhana Tampubolon;Chenfanfu Jiang;Eftychios Sifakis

91
Citations
Narrow-band topology optimization on a sparsely populated grid

Haixiang Liu;Yuanming Hu;Bo Zhu;Wojciech Matusik

86
Citations
Animating fluid sediment mixture in particle-laden flows

Ming Gao;Andre Pradhana;Xuchen Han;Qi Guo

81
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Teran University of California, Los Angeles

Ronald Fedkiw Stanford University

Georgios Tziritas University of Crete

Wojciech Matusik MIT

Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles

Jehee Lee Seoul National University

Kui Wu University of Victoria

Mark D. Hill University of Wisconsin–Madison

Achi Brandt Weizmann Institute of Science

Alberto Tosi Polytechnic University of Milan

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