Tomer Weiss, Ph.D.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
I am an Assistant Professor in the Informatics and Computer Science departments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where I have been on faculty since 2020. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCLA, advised by Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos, and hold an M.S. from UCLA and a B.S. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
My research develops real-time, scalable algorithms for simulating large virtual environments and the AI agents that populate them with a particular focus on crowd dynamics, physics-based multi-agent simulation, and the synthesis of 3D content. A running theme across my work is closing the gap between virtual and physical reality: making synthetic environments that behave, look, and feel like the real world. This has applications in many areas, from AR/VR, to generative AI.
News
- Apr. 2026Serving on the program committee for IEEE ICCP.
- Apr. 2026Serving as poster chair for the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D).
- Mar. 2026Serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Committee.
- Mar. 2026Serving on the CASA XR Program Committee.
- Feb. 2026Serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH I3D Program Committee.
- Feb. 2026Serving on the EuroGraphics Short Papers Program Committee.
- Dec. 2025Presented new crowd simulation work at the Motion, Interaction and Games conference in Zurich.
- May 2024PhD student presented crowd simulation paper at ACM SIGGRAPH I3D.
- Dec. 2023Invited talk at the CS Department, Stevens Institute of Technology.
- May 2023Talk at ACM SIGGRAPH I3D on our crowd simulation paper.
- Oct. 2022Invited talk at UConn Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering.
- Sep. 2022Invited talk at Stevens Institute of Technology Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Sep. 2022Talk at SIAM Mathematics of Data Science.
- May 2022Talk at Toyota Technological Institute Chicago.
- May 2022Talk at NYU Courant computer graphics group.
Awards & Honors
- Best Student Paper Award — ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2025
- Best Presentation Award — ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2025
- Best Paper Award — ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games (MIG), 2017
- Finalist, SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward, Vancouver, 2018
- Finalist, SIGGRAPH Asia Doctoral Consortium, Tokyo, 2018
Publications
For a more complete list see Google Scholar.
Opportunities
Existing NJIT undergrad or MS students in Computer Science or Informatics interested in collaborating must first enroll in IT 360. We do not have positions for students who have not completed this course. Project-based independent study opportunities (with or without academic credit) are available.
New Jersey high school students should have background in computer graphics — a game, visual application, shader, or similar — and proficiency in at least two of: Python, C++, C#, Java, Lua, or JavaScript.
Prospective PhD students should apply to the Information Systems PhD program at NJIT.
We currently have no positions for external applicants — students who have finished their BS, MS, or PhD outside NJIT and are seeking visiting, summer, or postdoctoral positions.
Team & Alumni
Current
Anderson Roudrigez (Undergrad, 2026-) · Derek You (Highschool, 2025–) · Alexander Chen (Highschool, 2024-26)
Alumni
Hameedullah Farooki (Undergrad, 2020) ·
Donovan Westwater (Undergrad, 2020) ·
Anuraag Godavari (Undergrad, 2021) ·
Muhammed Waggeh (Undergrad, 2020-21) ·
Tejasi Thool (Undergrad, 2021) ·
Daniel Long (High School, 2022) ·
Sreyas Voruganti (High School, 2022) ·
Jeremy Convocar (Undergrad, 2024) ·
Matthew Loges (Undergrad, 2024-25) ·
Bilas Talukdar (Doctoral, 2021–26) · Yunhao Zhang (Doctoral, 2020–25)