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Nima Kalantari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He specializes in various aspects of Computer Graphics and Engineering, with a robust background in Electrical Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California in Santa Barbara in 2015, and has previously obtained both his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology. His innovative research primarily focuses on Computer Graphics, Computational Photography, Rendering, and Deep Learning. Kalantari has received several prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Reviewer Award at CVPR in 2025, the Frontiers Science Award for his work on 'Local Light Field Fusion' in 2024, the TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award in 2024, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2023. He is committed to advancing the field through both teaching and research, working on new techniques and applications in computational imaging and rendering.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.