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Gordon Wetzstein is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science at Stanford University. He leads the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and serves as the faculty co-director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. His research encompasses a wide range of applications including next-generation imaging, wearable computing, and neural rendering systems, effectively bridging the fields of computer graphics, vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, and applied vision science. Over the years, Prof. Wetzstein has received numerous accolades including the NSF CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award among others. He has also been recognized as a Fellow of Optica and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Prof. Wetzstein is actively involved in mentoring and advising students in various capacities, and he engages in professional collaboration as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Media Arts and Sciences • Cambridge, MA
Conducting research in the area of computational imaging and graphics.
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