PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Bo Zhu

Bo Zhu is a Georgia Tech associate professor who develops numerical methods and generative models for physical systems. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a computer science Ph.D. at Stanford in 2015, then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL and spent five years as a Dartmouth assistant professor before joining Georgia Tech in 2023. His 2022 NSF CAREER Award and CISE grant supported fluid simulation research, and his 2023 Neural Flow Maps paper won the SIGGRAPH Asia Best Paper Award. He coauthored a 2024 particle-flow-map method for accurate long-range fluid simulation; his research spans computer graphics, computational physics, computational design, scientific machine learning and generative AI.

Works
140
Citations
1,882
h-index
25

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2015

    Stanford computer science PhD

    He earns bachelor's and master's degrees at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University in 2015. His dissertation is titled Codimensional Fluid Simulation on Simplicial Complexes.

  2. 2017

    Postdoctoral research at MIT

    In 2017, he is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL.

  3. 2018–2023

    Assistant professor at Dartmouth

    From fall 2018 through 2023, he serves as an assistant professor in Dartmouth College's Computer Science Department for five years.

  4. 2022

    NSF CAREER and CISE awards

    In 2022, he receives the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and a Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) grant. Both projects use fluid simulation to model how fluids transform and flow.

  5. 2023

    Assistant professor at Georgia Tech

    In fall 2023, he joins Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing as an assistant professor.

  6. 2023

    Neural Flow Maps paper award

    In 2023, he coauthors Fluid Simulation on Neural Flow Maps, which combines implicit neural representations with flow maps to simulate inviscid fluids. The paper receives the SIGGRAPH Asia Best Paper Award.

  7. May 2024

    Particle flow maps

    In May 2024, he coauthors Eulerian-Lagrangian Fluid Simulation on Particle Flow Maps, which proposes a particle-flow-map method for accurate long-range advection in incompressible fluid simulation.

  8. Since 2025

    Associate professor at Georgia Tech

    In 2025, he earns tenure and promotion to associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing. His research develops numerical methods and generative models for physical systems across computer graphics, computational physics, computational design, scientific machine learning and generative AI.

Career

  1. Since 2023Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant Professor
  2. 2018–2023Dartmouth CollegeAssistant Professor
  3. 2016–2019MIT CSAILPostdoctoral researcher
  4. 2016–2019Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

  1. 2015Stanford UniversityPh.D. in computer science
  2. Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor's and master's degrees

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Bo Zhu. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. BO ZHU@GT faculty.cc.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Center for Energy-Efficient Computing and Applications ceca.pku.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. News | CDFG, MIT CSAIL cdfg.mit.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. New Assistant Professor Uses Computer Graphics to Better Understand World | College of Computing cc.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Bo Zhu Receives NSF CAREER and CISE Awards | Department of Computer Science web.cs.dartmouth.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Neural Flow Maps yitongdeng-projects.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Researchers Reach New AI Benchmark for Computer Graphics | School of Interactive Computing ic.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. [2405.09672] Eulerian-Lagrangian Fluid Simulation on Particle Flow Maps arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Honoring Faculty Promotions - Spring 2025 | Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty faculty.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  10. Bo Zhu | School of Interactive Computing ic.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  11. Research Conference Spotlight 2026 – Research Impact & Leadership sites.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.