Professor A.M. Darke along with Professor Theodore Kim (Yale University), collaborated to develop and publish the first computational model designed specifically for afro-textured hair. Their technical paper won best paper at the 22nd annual Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) which took place from August 4 to August 6, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
The paper Lifted Curls: A Model for Tightly Coiled Hair Simulation can be found here: https://www.tkim.graphics/LIFTED/