Principal Investigator
Dr. Sanjeev Koppal
Sanjeev Koppal is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He also holds a UF Term Professor Award for 2021-24. Sanjeev is 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
Associate Professor
sjkoppal@ece.ufl.edu
352-392-8942
NEB 437
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Shahriar Sazzad
Sazzad received his doctorate from Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia in 2018. As a post-doctoral researcher, he is working on Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI).
t.sazzad@ufl.edu
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
Before joining the FOCUS Lab at UF, Justin obtained a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida Polytechnic University. His interests include LiDAR, computer vision, deep learning, and computational photography. With the focus of his work being adaptive LiDAR.
jfolden@ufl.edu
Brevin Tilmon
Brevin’s research focuses on building differentiable computational imaging sensors, both optics and algorithms, that quickly and selectively sense the environment to enable efficient computer vision applications such as depth estimation and eye tracking. His research pulls from geometric computer vision, machine learning, optics, GPU and systems programming. During his PhD he has interned at Meta Reality Labs and NASA Intelligent Robotics Group.
CV | Website | btilmon@ufl.edu
Jackson Arnold
Jackson received his B.S. in Engineering Physics before joining the FOCUS Lab.
CV | Website | jarnold2@ufl.edu
Hannah Kirkland
Hannah is a fifth year electrical engineering student interested in signal processing.
hkirkland@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Students
Gavin St. John
Gavin is a 4th year mechanical engineering student focusing on computer vision and machine learning.
gavinstjohn@ufl.edu
Sophia Rossi
Sophia is a fourth-year electrical engineering student interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.
sophia.rossi@ufl.edu
Alumni
Doctoral Students
• Dingkang Wang – Texas Instruments
Thesis: Quasi-static Scanning and Monolithic Forward Scanning Electrothermal MEMS Mirrors for LIDAR (2021)
• Kristofer Henderson – Lockheed Martin
Thesis: Sensor Fusion for Non-Line-of-Sight Visualization and Imaging (2020)
• Francesco Pittaluga – NEC Labs
Thesis: Privacy Preserving Computational Cameras (2019)
• Xiaoyang Zhang (PhD co-advised with Dr. Huikai Xie) – Apple
Thesis: Robust Electrothermally Actuated Scanner for Fiberoptic Endoscopic Imaging and Wide-angle Optics (2016)
Master’s and Undergraduate Students
Class of 2021
• TJ Thomas (BS) – PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University
Class of 2018
• Zaid Tasneem (MS) – PhD candidate at Rice University
Class of 2017
• Nahien Chowdhury (BS) – The Boeing Company
• Tatiana Luna (BS) – MS/PhD candidate at Columbia University
• Aashik Nagadikeri Harish (MS) – STRIVR Labs
Class of 2016
• Aleksandar Zivkovic (MS) – Magic and Company
• Junior Metayer (BS) – Florida Power and Light
• Phillip Riley (MS) – Harris Corporation
• Ishwarya Iyengar Thirunarayanan (MS) – Siemens Imaging
Class of 2015
• Elizabeth Butler (MS) – Lockheed Martin
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