Kiumars Sharifmoghaddam

Postdoctoral Researcher (FWF Project Assistant)

Academic Education

• PhD in Technical Mathematics at TU Wien, 03/2020 - 06/2024
  Thesis: Rigid-foldable Quad Meshes with Control Polylines: Interactive Design and Motion Simulation
• M.Sc in Computer Science at Shahid Beheshti University, 09/2016 - 07/2019
  Thesis: An Algorithm to Construct Table Cartograms on Hexagonal Grid
• B.Sc in Pure Mathematics at University of Tehran, 09/2006 - 09/2012

Research Interests

• Origami
• Discrete Differential Geometry
• Kinematics
• Architectural Geometry
• Computational Fabrication
• Computational Geometry

Teaching Experience

• "Geometry Optimization and Discretization", TU Wien, 10/2024 - 01/2025
• "Advanced Parametric Modeling", TU Wien, 10/2022 - 03/2023
• "Parametric Foldable Design and Digital Fabrication", TU Graz, 10/2022 - 03/2023
• "Structure and Geometry", University of Innsbruck, 10/2021 - 03/2022
• Teacher at the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), Tehran, Iran, 09/2007 - 09/2019

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Position, Advanced Computational Design, TU Wien, 06/2024 - present
• Special Research Stay at TachiLab, UTokyo, Japan, 10/2023 - 12/2023
• FWF Researcher at TU Wien (Subproject SP7 of SFB Advanced Computational Design), 03/2020 - 06/2024

Publications

1. Dellinger, F., Kilian, M., Lee, M., Mueller, C., Nawratil, G., Tachi, T. and Sharifmoghaddam, K. (2025) Snapping Deployable Toroids for Modular Gridshells. Accepted for ACM Transactions on Graphics SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
2. Sakai, Y., Imada, R., Ueki, K., Sharifmoghaddam, K. and Tachi, T. (2025) Frustration-driven Snap-through in Snapology. Accepted for ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF 25).
3. Nawratil, G., Preisinger, C., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Tachi, T., Zhang, Y. and Maleczek, R. (2025) T-Umbrella: a case study for an inflatable rigid-ruling curved folding mechanism. Accepted for Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposium 2025.
4. Kilian, M., Nawratil, G., Raffaelli, M., Rasoulzadeh, A. and Sharifmoghaddam, K. (2024) Interactive design of discrete Voss nets and simulation of their rigid foldings. Journal of Computer Aided Geometric Design. DOI: 10.1016/j.cagd.2024.102346
5. Sharifmoghaddam, K., Nawratil, G., Mundilova, K., and Tachi, T. (2024) Woven Rigidly Foldable T-hedral Tubes Along Translational Surfaces. Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (8OSME).
6. Lee, M., Sharifmoghaddam, K. and Tachi, T. (2024) Multistable Polyhedral Origami Modules for Curved Surface Assembly. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposium 2024.
7. Vasylevska, K., Ghazanfari, M., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Mortezapoor, S., Vonach, E., Brument, H., Nawratil, G. and Kaufmann, H. (2024) Stiffness Simulation with Haptic Feedback Using Robotic Gripper and Paper Origami as End-Effector. Workshop on Novel Input Devices and Interaction Techniques (NIDIT) at IEEE VR. DOI: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00015
8. Maleczek, R., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Nawratil, G. and Preisinger, C. (2023) Bridging the gap – A study on foldable tubular bridges. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposium 2023.
9. Vasylevska, K., Batik T., Brument, H., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Nawratil, G., Vonach, E., Mortezapoor, S. and Kaufmann, H. (2023) Action-Origami Inspired Haptic Devices for Virtual Reality. ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies. DOI: 10.1145/3588037.3595393
10. Kovacs, B. I., Erb, I., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Lipp, L., Wimmer, M. and Ferschin, P. (2023) The Theatre Metaphor for Spatial Computing in Architectural Design. Creative Construction e-Conference 2023, pp. 674-683. DOI: 10.3311/CCC2023-087
11. Ferschin, P., Suter, G., Palma, M., Erb, I., Hahn, D., Kovács, B., Nawratil, G. and Sharifmoghaddam, K. (2023) Transformable luminaire design: from digital sketch to fabrication through computation and simulation. eCAADe 2023, Volume 1, pp. 117-126. DOI: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2023.1.117
12. Sharifmoghaddam, K., Maleczek, R., and Nawratil, G. (2023) Generalizing rigid-foldable tubular structures of T-hedral type. Mechanics Research Communications. DOI: 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2023.104151
13. Maleczek, R., Sharifmoghaddam, K., and Nawratil, G. (2022) Rapid prototyping for non-developable discrete and semi-discrete surfaces with an overconstrained mobility. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposium 2022 and APCS.
14. Kovacs, B. I., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Jauk, J., Erb, I., Stavric, M., Nawratil, G. and Ferschin, P. (2022) Integrative Mixed Reality Sketching. Creative Construction e-Conference 2022, pp. 233-240. DOI: 10.3311/CCC2022-030
15. Sharifmoghaddam, K., Nawratil, G., Rasoulzadeh, A., and Tervooren, J. (2021) Using flexible trapezoidal quad-surfaces for transformable design. IASS Annual Symposium 2020/21 and 7th International Conference on Spatial Structures, pp. 3236-3248.
16. Bahmani, A., Sharifmoghaddam, K., Hudson, A. (2015) Using origami to enrich mathematical understanding of self similarity and fractals. Origami 6 (Vol. 95), pp. 723-733. DOI: 10.1090/mbk/095.2/32
17. Kiumars Sharifmoghaddam: Origami designs. In origami convention books, 2013-2021.

Talks

1. Conference on Geometry: Theory and Applications CGTA2025, Sopron, Hungary, June 16-20 2025, Invited Speaker, Title: Snapping Deployable Toroids.
2. Workshop on Discrete Geometric Structures 2024, Vienna, Austria, September 2-6 2024, Oral Presentation, Title: Rigid-Foldable Origami: Complex Topologies.
3. 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (8OSME), Melbourne, Australia, July 16-18 2024, Oral Presentation, Title: Woven Rigidly Foldable T-hedral Tubes Along Translational Surfaces.
4. 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (8OSME), Melbourne, Australia, July 16-18 2024, Oral Presentation, Title: T-hedral Origami: Towards Unifying Representation of Rigid-foldable and Curved Patterns.
5. Special Semester on Rigidity and Flexibility, Workshop on Structures - Polyhedra, Meshes, Platforms, Linz, Austria, May 13-17 2024, Invited Speaker, Title: Exploring T-hedral Origami across varied Topologies.
6. 36th Origami Science/Mathematics/Education Research Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 18-19 2023, Oral Presentation, Title: Generalization of Rigid-foldable Tubular Structures.
7. Conference on Geometry: Theory and Applications CGTA2023, Kefermarkt, Austria, June 19-23 2023, Oral Presentation, Title: Interactive design of discrete Voss nets and simulation of their rigid foldings.
8. 9th International Conference MoNGeometrija, Novi Sad, Serbia, June 7-10 2023, Invited Keynote Speaker, Title: When Escher meets Miura: A Geometric Exploration on Foldable and Transformable Structures. mongeometrija 2023
9. Symposium on Geometry and Computational Design (GCD), Vienna, Austria, September 9 2022, Title: Flexible Trapezoidal Quad-surfaces for Transformable Design.
10. Week of Advancing AEC, IntCDC Conference 2022: Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Future-Proof Architecture, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 10-14 2022, Poster Presentation, Title: On rigid-foldable tubular structures of T-hedral type.
11. IASS Annual Symposium 2020/21 and the 7th International Conference on Spatial Structures, online due to COVID-19, University of Surrey, UK, August 23-27 2020, Oral Presentation, Title: Using flexible trapezoidal quad-surfaces for transformable design.

Release of Software

• Scutes: an interactive Rhino/Grasshopper plugin developed in C-Sharp, offering construction and deformation capabilities for rigidly deformable quad-meshes to designers, architects, and engineers. [DOWNLOAD]