Media Lab 2008 onwards, CV summary
Recent major projects
 Femtosecond transient imaging (looking around corners and material indexing) (Marr Prize #2, Darpa young faculty award)
 NETRA: cell phone based self-optometry solution (http://cameraculture.info/netra) (Siggraph 2010)
 Bokode (Siggraph 2009)
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BiDi Screen (Siggraph Asia 2009)
 Compact and portable CAT-scan machine (ECCV 2010, CVPR 2010)
 HR3D: 3D Displays using rank deficient analysis of light transport (Siggraph Asia 2010)
 Bridging ray and wave theory of light propagation (Augmented Light Field) (Eurographics 2010)
Awards
 Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award (#1 Award for Netra, $300K)
 Darpa Young Faculty Award 2010 (Looking around corners with Transient Imaging)
 Deshpande Center Ignition Grant 2010 (Netra Eyetest Device)
 (Selected at MIT as candidate for Packard Fellowship 2010)
 MIT IDEAS competition #2 prize (Netra/PerfectSight)
 Selected by NASA/USAID for Launch Health, top 10 innovator (Netra)
 Marr Prize Honorable Mention at ICCV 2010 (for Looking around corners)
 MIRU 2010, Best Computer Vision paper award in Japan
 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Award 2009,
 4 Mitsubishi Electric invention awards (Grayed out because it is before 2008)
 42 Patents
 Technology Review TR100 Award (2004)
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MEng student Sharmeen Browarek, Best thesis #2 award from EECS
Matthew Hirsch, ACM Student Research Competition Siggraph, #2 Award
Key papers in every major conf in graphics and vision over the last 2 years (except Eurographics 2009)
 CVPR 2009 (3 papers)
 Siggraph 2009 (2 papers) and Siggraph Asia 2009 (1 paper)
 ICCV 2009 (1 paper and Marr Prize #2)
 CVPR 2010 (1 paper)
 Eurographics 2010 (2 papers)
 Siggraph 2010 (1 paper) and Siggraph Asia 2010 (2 papers)
 ECCV 2010 (1 paper)
 Eurographics 2011 (1 paper)
 CVPR 2011 (1 paper)
 Siggraph 2011 (3 papers)
Keynote addresses
 European Machine Vision Business Conference, May 2011, Amsterdam (Plenary)
 Stereoscopic Displays & Applications, Jan 2011, San Francisco, CA (Keynote)
 Imaging Science Hall of Fame Induction, Rochester, NY, Dec 2010 (Solo Keynote)
 Eighteenth Color Imaging Conference, San Antonio, TX, Nov 2010 (Opening Keynote)
 6Sight Future of Imaging, ‘Computational Photography: The Future Starts Now’, Nov 2009, CA (Opening Keynote)
 Spring Conf on Computer Graphics, Ap 2008, 'Can Computer Graphics Impact Our Daily Life', Slovakia (Keynote)
 Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), November 2007, Tokyo, Japan (Keynote)
Invited Talks
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International Computer Vision Summer School, Sicily, Italy, July 2011
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International Conference on Computational Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2011
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National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering, Cambridge, U.K., Sept 2010
Frontiers in Optics, ‘Shift Glass’, Oct 2010, Rochester NY
Launch.org by NASA and USAID, Oct 2010, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Imaging Systems, June 2010, Tucson, AZ, 'Wave Propagation and Lightfields'
FMX, ‘Imaging for Interaction’, Stutgart, Germany, May 2010
MIT Technology Review (EmTech India 2010), ‘Future of Imaging’, Bangalore, India
Frontiers in Optics, COSI, ‘Advanced Computational Photography’, Oct 2009, San Jose, CA
MIT Technology Review (EmTech India 2009), ‘Next Billion Cameras’, New Delhi, India
Emerging Trends in Visual Computing (ETVC'08), Ecole Polytechnique (LIX), Paris, France, November 2008
NIPS Symposium on Computational Photography, 'Computational Photography' , Vancouver, Canada, Dec 2008
8th Brazilian Conference of Design R&D - P&D DESIGN 2008, São Paulo, 'Next in Augmented Reality'
 Others: GadgetOff, MIT ILP events
Media coverage
 BBC (3), CNN (2), NYTimes, NPR, Wired, Discovery, NewScientist, TechnologyReview, FoxNews, NBC, ABC etc
 Featured 4 times as cover-art of MIT.edu homepage (6D display, Bokode, Netra, BidiScreen)
Conference Co‐Chair and Co-editor of special issues
 International Conference on Computational Photography, Cambridge, March 2010
 Co-editor of special issue of CompGraphics&Appl on 'Camera Culture and Computational Journalism', Jan 2011
 Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG) 2009-present
Program Committee Member
 Papers Committee for Siggraph every year, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, 2008, 2011, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, 2010
 IEEE CVPR Area Chair 2009,
 IEEE ECCV Area Chair 2010
Teaching and Books
 Developed a new course on Computational Camera in which students learn and build novel imaging apparatus.
 New course on 'Imaging Ventures' where students learn to convert imaging ideas into business ventures and NGOs.
 New course on ‘Future of Imaging’ where students envision ‘what if’ scenarios
 Coauthor of the book ‘Computational Photography’ (expected 2011) and Spatial Augmented Reality (2005)
Research Grants
 Mosaic (50 Gigapixel camera, ~$450K for 3 years)
 Samsung Electronics (Bokode and BiDi Screen, $195K/year for 2 years)
 Darpa Young Faculty Award (Looking around corners, $300K for 2 years)
 Deshpande Center Grant ($50K)
 Lincoln Lab Collaboration Fund ($80K),
 Lincoln Lab ACC ($50K)
 Google Research Award (2011: $150K, 2010: $40k)
 Adobe ($25K)
 Nokia ($65K)
Sponsor Contacts
Hosted Company CRS: Samsung, Canon, Toshiba, upcoming (ITRI, ?ESPN)
On site company visits: Canon (Tokyo), Samsung (Suwon), LG (Seoul), Logitech/Nokia/Google (Bay-area),
Sensormatic/Tyco (Florida), Time (NYC), Orange (Boston), etc.