Earlier, he co-founded the Geometric Modeling and Visualization Center (GMSV) center at KAUST. He received his Ph.D. degree and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include shape understanding, fabrication-aware design, geometric modeling, recreational art, and computer graphics in general. In 2013, Niloy received the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award and an ERC Starting Grant on SmartGeometry. Abstract