I was a Principal Research Scientist and Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA Research. In the amazing 15 years I spent there, I worked on a wide range of topics and projects, ranging from computational photography, low-level computer vision perception, human visual perception, and content capture/generation.

During my tenure at NVIDIA I mentored or co-mentored stellar students now off to doing amazing things on their own. Interns were to me what grad students are to professors, so I’m hoping I made some small contribution to their career. But most of all, I’m thankful for the opportunity to have worked with them. Here’s a few, in no particular order:

• Dr. Abhishek Badki (now with NVIDIA Research)
• Dr. Hang Su (now with NVIDIA Research)
• Dr. Jun Hu (now with Apple)
• Dr. Ekta Prashnani (now with NVIDIA Research)
• Dr. Chaoyang Wang (now with Snap Research)
• Dr. Jae Shin Yoon (now with Adobe Research)
• Dr. Daniel Lichy (now with Kitware)
• Prof. Hang Zhao (now at Tsinghua University)
• Dr. Yiqing Liang (now with Luma AI)
• Prof. Suren Jayasuriya (now at ASU)
• Prof. Qi Guo (now at Purdue)
• Prof. Chenyang Lei (now Prof. at CAIR)
• Prof. Felix Heide (now at Princeton)
• Dr. David E. Jacobs (now with Google)
• Dr. Patrick Wieschollek (now with Amazon)
• Dr. Wei-Sheng (Jason) Lai (now with Google)
• Dr. Inchang Choi (now with Apple)
• Dr. Zhile Ren (now with Apple)
• Prof. Huaijin (George) Chen (now at the University of Hawaii at Manoa)
• Dr. Atsuhiro Noguchi (now at PreferredNetworks)
• Dr. Tewodros Habtegebrial (now at Snap Spectacles)
• Seokju Cho (PhD student at KAIST)

I have served as area chair or senior area chair for several IEEE conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, WACV, and 3DV). I was an associate editor and then senior associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging from 2020 to 2024. From 2018 to 2022 I was a member of the IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee, and from 2015 to 2017 I was an associate editor for Signal processing: Image Communication. I got recognized as an outstanding reviewer for BMVC (2021), ICCV (2021), and CVPR (2017, 2018, 2021). I was also recognized as an outstanding editorial board member for my services to IEEE Trans. on Comp. Imaging (2020).

I am taking a break from research and tech for a bit. You can probably find me on the beach training for next year’s beach volleyball season, or via email (first_name @ soe.ucsc.edu).