Oliver Cossairt | Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, USA
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Oliver Cossairt is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. His research interests lie at the intersection of optics, computer vision, and computer graphics. He earned his PhD. in Computer Science from Columbia University, where his research focused on the design and analysis of computational imaging systems. He earned his M.S. from the MIT Media Lab, where his research focused on holography and computational displays. Oliver was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Best Paper Award at ICCP 2010, and his research was featured in the March 2011 issue of Scientific American Magazine. Oliver has authored ten patents on various topics in computational imaging and displays.
Joseph E. Ford | University of California, San Diego, USA
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Joseph Ford joined the UCSD faculty in 2002, after a two-year stint as Chief Scientist at Optical Micro-Machines. From 1994 to 2000, Ford was a principal investigator in the Advanced Photonics Research Department of Bell Labs, where he applied optoelectronics and micromechanics to high-bandwidth computing and communications. In 1992, he earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and applied physics from UCSD, where he remained as a postdoctoral researcher until mid-1993, when he joined 3D optical data storage startup Call/Recall. Ford has co-authored over 100 conference and journal papers, holds 47 U.S. patents, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Ashok Veeraraghavan | Rice University, Houston, USA
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Ashok Veeraraghavan is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, Tx, USA. Before joining Rice University, he spent three wonderful and fun-filled years as a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge, MA. He received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2002 and M.S and PhD. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2004 and 2008 respectively. His thesis received the Doctoral Dissertation award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. He loves playing, talking, and pretty much anything to do with the slow and boring but enthralling game of cricket.
At Rice University, he directs the Computational Imaging and Vision Lab. His research interests are broadly in the areas of computational imaging, computer vision and robotics.
