Principal Investigator
Dr. Sanjeev Koppal
Sanjeev Koppal is an assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is also the Director of the FOCUS Lab at UF. Prior to joining UF, he was a researcher at the Texas Instruments Imaging R&D lab. Sanjeev obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. After CMU, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Southern California in 2003 as a Trustee Scholar. He is a co-author on best student paper awards for ECCV 2016 and NEMS 2018, and work from his FOCUS lab was a CVPR 2019 best-paper finalist. Sanjeev won an NSF CAREER award in 2020 and is an IEEE Senior Member. His interests span computer vision, computational photography and optics, novel cameras and sensors, 3D reconstruction, physics-based vision, and active illumination.
Contact Information
Sanjeev J. Koppal
Assistant Professor
sjkoppal@ece.ufl.edu
352-392-8942
NEB 437
Ph.D Students
Xiaomeng Liu
Xiaomeng Liu is currently working as a research assistant in the FOCUS Lab at UF. Before working with the FOCUS Lab, she obtained an M.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the ECE department at the University of Florida. Her research interests span thermal sensors, optics, image processing, and computational photography.
liuxiaomeng51@ufl.edu
Justin Folden
Justin Folden is a first year Ph.D student at the University of Florida, and a research assistant at the FOCUS Lab. Before joining the Gator Nation, Justin obtained a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida Polytechnic University. His interests include material science, image processing, electro-magnetics, and computational photography.
jfolden@ufl.edu
Brevin Tilmon
Brevin is interested in computational photography, computer vision, and machine learning. His work focuses on developing novel computational cameras.
CV | Website | btilmon@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Students
Jake Bursk
Jake is a fourth-year electrical engineering student. He is interested in digital signal processing and image processing.
jakebursk@ufl.edu
Gavin St. John
Gavin is a 4th year mechanical engineering student focusing on computer vision and machine learning.
gavinstjohn@ufl.edu
