Visual Computing and Augmented Intelligence Lab

GROUP PHILOSOPHY

Our group values curiosity, diversity, and impact-driven research that pushes the boundaries of what's possible in visual computing. Together, we bring expertise in optics, computer vision, and machine learning.

Praneeth Chakravarthula

Assistant Professor

Computational imaging, AR/VR, nano-optics, human-computer interaction

Henry Fuchs

Federico Gil Distinguished Professor

Computer graphics, virtual reality, telepresence, 3D reconstruction

TEAM MEMBERS

Adrian Ilie

Senior Research Scientist

3D reconstruction, image-based rendering, visual computing systems

Jade Kandel

Graduate Student

Visual computing, digital art, computer graphics

Kurtis Keller

Research Associate and Engineer

Applied engineering lab, hardware systems, visual computing infrastructure

Jayden Lim

Undergraduate Student

Visual computing, research engineering

Jim Mahaney

Lab Manager

Lab operations, equipment management, research support

Ashley Neall

Undergraduate Student

Visual computing, research engineering

Andrei State

Senior Research Scientist

Augmented reality, 3D tracking, near-eye displays, medical applications

Pranav Wagh

Undergraduate Student

Visual computing, research engineering

Qian Zhang

Graduate Student

3D reconstruction, telepresence, visual computing

ALUMNI

We're currently in the process of populating this list. If you do not see your name here and would like to be added, please drop an email to Prof. Henry Fuchs.

Faculty

Anselmo Lastra— Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Greg Welch— Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation, University of Central Florida

Staff

Herman Towles— Senior Research Associate

PhD

Gregory Abram(1986)— Research Scientist, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Jeremy Ackerman(2002)— Associate Professor, Emory University

Michael Bajura(1997)— Research Staff Member, IDA

Gary Bishop(1984)— Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Alex Blate(2019)— Chief Innovator, Aura Technologies

Young-Woon Cha(2013)

Rohan Chabra(2014)

Renjie Chen(2015)— Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

Wei-Chao Chen(2002)— Co-Founder and Chairman, Skywatch Innovation Inc.

Mingsong Dou(2015)— perceptiveIO Inc.

David Dunn(2019)— Disney Research - Los Angeles

David Ellsworth(1996)— Senior Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

Cedric Fleury(2014)— Assistant Professor, Université Paris-Sud

Michael Giordano(2019)— Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook

Gentaro Hirota(2002)— Engineer, NVIDIA

Victoria Interrante(1996)— Professor, University of Minnesota

Tyler Johnson(2009)— Principal Software Engineer, Scalable Display Technologies

Scott Larsen(2008)— Senior Technical Asset, Qualtrics

Marc Levoy(1989)— Distinguished Engineer, Google Research

Peter Lincoln(2017)— Google

Mark Livingston(1998)— Head, Virtual Environments and Visualization Section, Naval Research Laboratory

Andrew Maimone(2015)— Research Scientist, Facebook Reality Labs

Steven Molnar(1991)— NVIDIA

Andrew Nashel(2010)— Software Engineer, Cisco Systems

Ulrich Neumann(1993)— Professor of Computer Science and ECE, USC

Ryutarou Ohbuchi(1994)— Professor, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Akshay Paruchuri— UNC Chapel Hill

Tabitha Peck(2010)— Assistant Professor, Davidson College

Ramesh Raskar(2002)— Associate Professor, MIT

Kishore Rathinavel(2013)

Michael H. Rosenthal(2005)— Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Cancer Center

Gregory Turk(1992)— Professor, Georgia Tech

Jih-Fang Wang(1990)— Unisys

Feng Zheng(2015)— Magic Leap

Masters

Austin Hale

Hao Jiang

Howard (Han) Jiang(2023)

Hyounghun Kim

Michael Giordano(2019)— Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook

Nick Rewkowski

Husam Shaik(2022)

Hanpeng Wang

Justin Wilson(2016)

Undergraduate

Will Berner

Yang Chen

Zhongrui Chen(2022)— PhD student at UNC

Fan Feng

Joel Jacob

Federico Menozzi(2016)— BS Honors Thesis, UNC; MS Student

Helen Zihe Qin(2019)— Google

Vijay Rajkumar(2016)— BS Honors Thesis; Duke University Grad Student in Media

Nolan Scobie

Paul Song

Evan Sun(2022)

Yujie Tao

Jiyao Wang

Ziheng Wang

David Siqing Xu(2016)

Irene Zhan