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Alice Petrov I'm a first-year PhD student in the Geometric Data Processing Group at MIT CSAIL, advised by Justin Solomon. My research sits at the intersection of geometric data processing, topological data analysis, and geometric machine learning. I care about algorithms and theory that respect the underlying geometry and topology of data, so we can model, learn, and reason with more structural guarantees. Previously, I completed an MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where I worked on persistent intersection homology and thought a lot about stratified spaces. Before that, I studied computing, mathematics, and analytics at Queen's University, with research spanning algebraic models for automated planning, robustness of open-source ecosystems, and ML for code. |
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News |
| Jul 2026 | Tangent Blow-Ups received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at SGP 2026. |
| Sep 2025 | Started my PhD at MIT, advised by Justin Solomon. |
Publications |
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Tangent Blow-Ups for Processing Non-Manifold Geometry
Alice Petrov, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Ana Dodik, Justin Solomon Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 45, no. 5, 2026 Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2026) Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 1% of submitted papers) arXiv / pdf / Publisher Page / bibtex |
Previous Work |
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The Essence of de Rham Cohomology
Alice Petrov arXiv preprint, 2024 arXiv / pdf / bibtex |
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Persistent Homology for the Analysis of Stratified Spaces
Alice Petrov MSc Dissertation, University of Oxford, 2024 pdf / bibtex |
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PARIS: Planning Algorithms for Reconfiguring Independent Sets
Remo Christen, Salomé Eriksson, Michael Katz, Christian Muise, Alice Petrov, Florian Pommerening, Jendrik Seipp, Silvan Sievers, David Speck Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2023 OpenReview / pdf / bibtex |
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From State Spaces to Semigroups: Leveraging Algebraic Formalism for Automated Planning
Alice Petrov, Christian Muise Workshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain-Independent Planning (HSDIP), ICAPS, 2023 OpenReview / pdf / bibtex |
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Automated Planning Techniques for Elementary Proofs in Abstract Algebra
Alice Petrov, Christian Muise SPARK: Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop, ICAPS, 2023 arXiv / pdf / bibtex |
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Analyzing the Robustness of Open Source Software Ecosystems to the Loss of Contributors: A Case Study
Zhendong Sha, Alice Petrov, Yuan Tian, Ting Hu SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 SSRN / pdf / bibtex |
Contact
Office: Stata Center, 32-D476
If you're a student or collaborator interested in geometric ML, TDA, or geometry-aware vision/graphics, feel free to reach out! |
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