Keenan Crane
Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKeenan Crane is a leading researcher and practitioner in algorithms for 3D geometric data, serving as an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon and currently a Visiting Researcher with Roblox's 3D Foundation Model team. He blends deep theoretical insight—recognized by awards like a Google PhD Fellowship, NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and an NSF CAREER Award—with practical impact through industry collaborations and consulting for Fortune-500 companies. His work spans geometry, computation, and generative 3D modeling, and he contributes to open-source projects such as Penrose where he has implemented domain-specific language and rendering features that bridge mathematical notation and graphical output. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings nine years of focused post-PhD experience in academia and industry, combining rigorous research with hands-on engineering to translate geometric algorithms into deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Japanese
Github Skills (8)
mathematics10
diagram10
math10
react9
visualizations9
programming-language9
javascript9
visualization9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
penrose/penrose
Jun 2019 - May 2022
Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 2 comments, 5 issues in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Keenan contributed significantly to the `penrose/penrose` repository, focused on implementing domain-specific language features for creating diagrams. They modified style files (`.sty`) to alter colors and implement linear algebra concepts, which aligns with the mathematical focus of the project. The commits also include updates to example files and the react-renderer, demonstrating a broad understanding of the project's architecture and a capacity to work on both the style definition language and the rendering components.
diagramssvgeulermathematicsjavascript
GeometryCollective/geometry-processing-js
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
A fast, general-purpose framework for geometry processing on the web.
Contributions:56 commits in 2 years 5 months
webglgeometry-processingpurposecomputational-geometryboolean
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