Faculty
Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty

Michael F. Cohen
(Facebook)

Alex Colburn
(Apple)

Richard Newcombe
(Surreal Vision)

Bryan Russell
(Adobe)

Larry Zitnick
(Facebook)
Collaborators and Postdocs

Joann Elmore
(UCLA)

Jason Lawrence
(Google)

Yun-En Liu
(Enlearn)

Ricardo Martin Brualla
(Google)

Konstantinos Rematas
(Google)

Soumyadip Sengupta
(postdoc)
Graduate Students

Adam Fishman

Alice Gao

Josh Gardner

Nikita Haduong

Cheng-Yu Hsieh

Johanna Karras

Nishat Khan

Benjamin Lee

Kechun Liu

Nick Nuechterlein

Junha Roh

Mehmet Saygin Seyfioğlu

Aaron Walsman
Technical and Administrative Staff

John Akers

Jayashree Hari

David Kessler

Jennifer Snow

Stephen Spencer
Alumni Awards and Recognition
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Seth Cooper (winner, 2011)
- Noah Snavely (honorable mention, 2009)
- Aseem Agarwala (honorable mention, 2006)
Sloan Research Fellowships
- Noah Snavely (2012)
- Karen Liu (2010)
- Li Zhang (2010)
TR35 Awards
- Adriana Schulz (2020)
- Noah Snavely (2011)
- Adrien Treuille (2009)
- Karen Liu (2008)
ACM SIGGRAPH Awards
- Noah Snavely - Significant New Researcher Award (2014)
- Karen Liu - Significant New Researcher Award (2012)
- Rick Szeliski - Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2011)
- Hugues Hoppe - Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2004)
- David Salesin - Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2000)
- Michael Cohen - Computer Graphics Achievement Award (1998)
CVPR Best Papers / Best Student Papers
AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) Scientific & Technical Awards
- Brett Allen (2010)
- Per Christensen (2010)
ICCV Helmholtz 10 Year Significant Impact Prize
Packard Fellowship
- Li Zhang (2010)
Alumni with Faculty Positions
- Mark Yatskar (Ph.D., 2017) - University of Pennsylvania
- Erik Andersen (Ph.D., 2014) - Cornell University
- Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman (Postdoc, 2012) - University of Washington
- Seth Cooper (Ph.D., 2011) - Northeastern University
- Yasutaka Furukawa (Postdoc, 2010) - Washington University in St. Louis
- Indriyati Atmosukarto (Ph.D., 2010) - Singapore Institute of Technology
- Li Zhang (Ph.D., 2008) University of Wisconsin, now at Google
- Noah Snavely (Ph.D., 2008) - Cornell University
- Adrien Treuille (Ph.D., 2008) - Carnegie Mellon University
- Michael Goesele (Postdoc, 2007) - TU Darmstadt
- Karen Liu (Ph.D., 2007) - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Yung-Yu Chuang (Ph.D., 2004) - National Taiwan University
- Aaron Hertzmann (Postdoc, 2002) - University of Toronto and Adobe Research
- Craig Kaplan (Ph.D., 2002) - University of Waterloo
- Frédéric Pighin (Ph.D., 1999) - USC ICT, now at Google
- Adam Finkelstein (Ph.D., 1996) - Princeton
- Dani Lischinski (Postdoc, 1994) - Hebrew University
- Soumyadip Sengupta (Postdoc, 2022) - University of North Carolina
Alumni in Industry and Research Labs
- Bindita Chaudhuri (Ph.D., 2021) - Facebook Reality Labs
- Kiana Ehsani (Ph.D., 2021) - Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Keivan Alizadeh Vahid (MS, 2021) - Apple
- Shengjie Wang (Ph.D., 2021) - ByteDance
- Edward Zhang (Ph.D., 2021) - Apple
- Hessam Bagherinezhad (Ph.D., 2020) - Apple
- Yao Lu (Ph.D., 2018) - Microsoft Research Labs
- Shu Liang (Ph.D., 2018) - Facebook
- Ezgi Mercan (Ph.D., 2017) - Seattle Childrens Hospital
- Aditya Sankar (Ph.D., 2017) - Apple
- Avanish Kushal (Ph.D., 2014) - Jane Street
- Alex Colburn (Ph.D., 2014) - Apple
- Ankit Gupta (Ph.D., 2013) - Microsoft
- Daniel Leventhal (MS, 2013) - Tableau
- Kevin Wampler (Ph.D., 2012) - Adobe
- Rahul Garg (Ph.D., 2012) - Google
- Suporn Pongnumkul (Ph.D., 2012) - NECTEC Thailand
- Changchang Wu (Postdoc, 2011) - Google
- Ian Simon (Ph.D., 2011) - Smule, previously at Microsoft
- Yongjoon Lee (Ph.D., 2010) - Bungie
- Sameer Agarwal (Postdoc, 2010) - Google and UW CSE Affiliate Faculty
- Eli Shechtman (Postdoc, 2010) - Adobe Research
- Pravin Bhat (Ph.D., 2009) - 8i, previously at Weta Digital and Valve Software
- Mira Dontcheva (Ph.D., 2008) - Adobe Research
- Wilmot Li (Ph.D., 2008) - Adobe Research
- Jue Wang (Ph.D., 2008) - Adobe Research
- Ke (Colin) Zheng (Ph.D., 2008) - Goldman Sachs, previously at Microsoft
- Dan Goldman (Ph.D., 2007) - Google, UW CSE Affiliate Faculty
- Aseem Agarwala (Ph.D., 2006) - Google, UW CSE Affiliate Faculty
- Brett Allen (Ph.D., 2005) - Google, previously at ILM
- Kiran Bhat (Ph.D., 2004) - Epson and ILM
- Steve Capell (Ph.D., 2004) - Havok
- Jonathan Shade (Ph.D., 2004) - Pixar
- Douglas Zongker (Ph.D., 2003) - Google
- Daichi Sasaki (Postdoc, 2003) - Sony-Kihara Research Center
- Eric Stollnitz (Ph.D., 1998) - Adobe Research
- Kari Pulli (Ph.D., 1997) - Intel
- Per Christensen (Ph.D., 1995) - Pixar
- Hugues Hoppe (Ph.D., 1994) - Microsoft Research
- Charles Loop (Ph.D., 1992) - Microsoft Research