Tao Du is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. His research aims at developing computational methods to help people understand physical systems. Before joining Tsinghua University, he completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2021 under the supervision of Wojciech Matusik and continued as a Postdoctoral Associate from 2021 to 2022. At MIT, he developed differentiable deformable-solid and fluid simulators and explored their downstream applications in machine learning and robotics. His research work has been featured by technical media outlets including WIRED, IEEE Spectrum, TechCrunch, Engadget, and so on. In addition, he was recognized by NeurIPS (2021-2023) and ICML (2022) as an outstanding reviewer.