I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at New York University's Courant Institute, working with Prof. Denis Zorin in the Media Research Lab. I am a 2010 recipient of the CRA Computing Innovation Fellowship.

I was formerly a Ph.D. student in the Computer Graphics Group at Columbia University, which I attended on a 2005 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I was advised by Eitan Grinspun.

My research interests are in physical simulation, contact mechanics, numerical methods, modern geometry, and computer animation.

My CV is available here.

• Asynchronous Contact Mechanics (CACM Research Highlights)

  David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun.
  Communications of the ACM, pp. 102-109, April 2012.
  [PDF]

• Interference Aware Geometric Modeling

  David Harmon, Daniele Panozzo, Olga Sorkine, Denis Zorin.
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2011).
  [PDF] [MP4] [CODE]

• Asynchronous Integration with Phantom Meshes

  David Harmon, Qingnan Zhou, Denis Zorin.
  ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2011.
  [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]

• Asynchronous Variational Contact Mechanics

  Etienne Vouga, David Harmon, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun.
  Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2011.
  [PDF] [BIB]

• Robust, Efficient, and Accurate Contact Algorithms

  David Harmon. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2010.
  

• Asynchronous Contact Mechanics

  David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun.
  ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2009).
  [PDF] [BIB] [CODE] [PROJECT] [MOV]

• Robust Treatment of Simultaneous Collisions

  David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun.
  ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008).
  [PDF] [BIB] [PROJECT] [MOV]

• Efficient Simulation of Inextensible Cloth

  Rony Goldenthal, David Harmon, Raanan Fattal, Michel Bercovier, Eitan Grinspun.
  ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007).
  [PDF] [BIB] [PROJECT] [MOV]

• Discrete Quadratic Curvature Energies
  (CAGD Most Cited Paper Award 2010)

  Max Wardetzky, Miklos Bergou, David Harmon, Denis Zorin, Eitan Grinspun. Computer Aided Geometric Design 2007.
  [PDF] [BIB] [PROJECT]

• A Quadratic Bending Model for Inextensible Surfaces

  Miklos Bergou, Max Wardetzky, David Harmon, Denis Zorin, Eitan Grinspun. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing pp. 227-230, June 2006.
  [PDF] [BIB] [PROJECT] [AVI]

I have been an active scuba diver for several years now and am currently a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (#268470).

I also run an increasingly popular scuba diving blog in my spare time.