PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Sanjeev Koppal
Sanjeev J. Koppal is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and is a Kent and Linda Fuchs Faculty Fellow. He also held a UF Term Professorship for 2021-23. Sanjeev is the Director of the FOCUS Lab at UF. Since 2022, Sanjeev has been an Amazon Scholar with Amazon Robotics. 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 and an Optica Senior Member. His interests span computer vision, computational photography and optics, novel cameras and sensors, 3D reconstruction, physics-based vision, and active illumination.
sjkoppal@ece.ufl.edu
352-392-8942
MALA 5103
Ph.D STUDENTS
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
Jackson Arnold
Jackson received his B.S. in Engineering Physics before joining the FOCUS Lab.
jarnold2@ufl.edu
Hannah Kirkland
Hannah is a graduate research assistant in the FOCUS Lab. She graduated with a B.S in Electrical Engineering from UF in 2021. Their interests include computational photography, quantum computing, and computer vision.
hkirkland@ufl.edu
Yuxuan Zhang
Zhang received his undergraduate degree in physics at Xi’an Jiao Tong University. He’s now pursuing his PhD at UF. He has experience in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, 3D Design and many other fields. He is currently working on Foveated Imaging.
zhangyuxuan@ufl.edu | website
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Piper Taylor
Trung Le
ALUMNI
Doctoral Students
Brevin Tilmon – Quidient
Thesis: Foveated Computational Imaging (2023)
Xiaomeng Liu
Thesis: Lightweight Light Transport for Non-line-of-sight Imaging (2022)
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 2024
Jacob Carter (BS)
Class of 2023
Lianan Armil (BS)
Dylan Ogrodowski (BS) – MS student at University of Florida
Chloe Petrosino (BS)
Class of 2022
Sophia Rossi (BS) – Microsoft
Nicolas Laffineuse (BS) – Texas Instruments
Gavin St. John (BS)
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