- 2024, Best Paper Award, GazeFusion: Saliency-guided Image Generation, ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2024
- 2023, Best Paper Honorable Mention, Towards Attention-aware Foveated Rendering, ACM SIGGRAPH 2023
- 2023, Frontiers of Science Award, Neural holography with camera-in-the-loop training, International Congress of Basic Science 2023
- 2022, Best Journal Paper, Video See-Through Mixed Reality with Focus Cues, IEEE VR 2022
- 2022, Best Journal Paper, ScanGAN360: A Generative Model of Realistic Scanpaths for 360° Images, IEEE VR 2022
- 2022, Best Demo Award, Modulo Camera on a Focal Plane Sensor Processor, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2022
- 2019, Outstanding New Directions Award (Honorable Mention), Scene Representation Networks: Continuous 3D-Structure-Aware Neural Scene Representations, NeurIPS 2019
- 2018, Best Student Paper (Emil Wolf Student Paper Prize), Optical Convolutional Neural Networks with Optimized Phase Masks for Image Classification, OSA Frontiers in Optics Conference 2018
- 2018, Best Demo Award (DCEXPO Special Price), Autofocals: gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes, SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies 2018
- 2016, Best Paper (Honorable Mention), Convolutional Sparse Coding for High Dynamic Range Imaging, Eurographics 2016
- 2016, Best Demo Award, Computational Light Field and Monovision Near-eye Displays, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2016
Research Experience
- Since 09/21, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, Computer Science, Stanford CA, USA
- 11/17 - 05/22, Co-founder, Raxium, Inc. (acquired by Google)
- 09/14 - 09/21, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, Computer Science, Stanford CA, USA
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2006-2011
- Diplom, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany, 2000-2006 (summa cum laude)
- Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011-2014 (funded by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and the DARPA SCENICC program)
Background
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. Director of the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and a faculty director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer graphics and vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, and applied vision science, with applications in next-generation imaging, wearable computing, and neural rendering systems.
Miscellany
For more information, please visit our group website: www.computationalimaging.org