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Aswin Sankaranarayanan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and the Principal Investigator of the Image Science Lab. His research broadly focuses on computational photography, with an emphasis on 3D shape estimation and the development of innovative imaging systems. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, where his dissertation earned the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the ECE department in 2009. He has received numerous accolades including the College of Engineering Dean’s Early Career Fellowship in 2018, the NSF CAREER award in 2017, the Eta Kappa Nu (CMU Chapter) Excellence in Teaching award in 2017, and the Herschel Rich Invention award from Rice University in 2016. Aswin has co-authored a paper that won recognition at the 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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