SCIEN Seminars
Upcoming Talks
Dr. Jon Barron (Google): “Radiance Fields and the Future of Generative Media”
February 26 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. David Susillo (Meta): “A wrist-based surface EMG neuromotor interface for human computer interaction that works across a population”
March 5 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Doug Lanman (Meta)
March 12 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Archived Talks
Links to video recordings of past SCIEN talks are included in the archived webpages listed below. Some of the video recordings may be password protected. Employees of SCIEN Industry Affiliate Member companies can obtain password access by contacting helenlin@stanford.edu or joyce_farrell@stanford.edu.
Dr. David Fattal (Leia): ” 3D Displays in the Age of AI”
February 19 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf Rafal Mantiuk(Univ of Cambridge): How the models of spatio-chromatic vision can help us designbetter technology
February 12 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Grace Kuo (Meta): “Towards Holographic AR Glasses”
February 5 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Shwetadwip Chowdhury (UT Austin): “Computational bio-imaging via inverse scattering”
January 29 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Peyman Milanfar (Google): “Denoising: A Powerful Building-Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems, and Machine Learning”
January 22 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Guandao Yang (Stanford): “Toward Spatial Intelligence with Limited Data”
January 15 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Elliott Wu (Stanford): “Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images”
December 4, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Rick Chang (Apple): “The pursuit of a good shape representation”
November 20, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Kalyan Sunkavalli (Adobe): “3D Graphics in the age of Generative AI”
November 13, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmBerthy Feng (Caltech): “Diffusion Models as Data-driven and Physics-informed Priors for Bayesian Imaging”
November 6, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Kevin Zhou (UC Berkeley): “Computational 3D and 4D imaging at high spatiotemporal throughput”
October 30, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Nikhil Naik (Meta): “Diffusion Model Alignment with Direct Preference Optimization”
October 23, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Robin Rombach (Black Forest Labs): “From Latent Diffusion to FLUX and Beyond: Scaling Efficient Content Creation”
October 16, 2024 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmDr. Haomiao Jiang (Roblox): “Photo-to-Avatar: Personalized Avatar Creation with Generative AI”
October 9, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Aleksander Hołyński (Google): “Recent Advances in 3D Generative AI”
October 2, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Jiaming Song (Luma AI): “Dream Machine: Emergent Capabilities from Video Foundation Models”
September 25, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor David Lindell (University of Toronto): “Imaging Anytime Anywhere All at Once: Capturing Dynamic Scenes from Seconds to Picoseconds”
June 12, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Boyd Fowler (Omnivision): “Cyber Security in Automotive Image Sensors and Beyond”
June 5, 2024 @ 4:30 pmDr. Zhenyi Liu (Stanford): “Physically Accurate Image Systems Simulation: High Dynamic Range Nighttime Scenes “
May 29, 2024 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Hany Farid (Univ of California at Berkeley):”Creating, (Mis)using, and Detecting Deepfakes”
May 22, 2024 @ 4:30 pmDr. Sam Kavusi (Verily):”Addressing the long tail of Diabetic Retinopathy screening with on-device intelligence”
May 15, 2024 @ 4:30 pmDr. Michael Black (Max Planck Institute): “Towards the 3D Human Foundation Agent”
May 8, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmTrisha Datta (Stanford):”VerITAS: Verifying Image Transformations at Scale”
May 1, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Kartik Ayyer (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany):”Learning nanoscale structural dynamics using X-ray lasers”
April 24, 2024 @ 4:30 pmDr. Robin Atkins (Dolby): “Design and Reality of the HDR Imaging Ecosystem”
April 17, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Aswin Sankaranarayanan (CMU): “Spatially-Selective Lensing for VR Displays”
April 10, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ayush Tewari (MIT): “Learning to See the World in 3D”
April 3, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Yijun(Joy) Ding (Synopsys): “Metalens design: Workflow and Manufacturability”
March 13, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Andreas Suess (Omnivision):”Towards hybrid event/image vision”
March 6, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr Tamay Aykut (Sureel.ai): “The Battle for Creative Credit and Provenance in the Gen AI Era: Confronting the Attribution Crisis”
February 28, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Misha Sra (UC Santa Barbara): “Augmenting Humans”
February 21, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Michael Zollhöfer(Meta): “Achieving Codec Telepresence”
February 14, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Kayvon Fatahalian (Stanford): “Generating Behaviors: Skilled AI Agents for Virtual Worlds”
February 7, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Philippe Gentet (Kwangwoon University): “From Ultimate to CHIMERA 180°, 30 Years of Innovation in Display Holography”
January 31, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Sara Fridovich-Keil (Stanford): “White-Box Computational Imaging: Measurements to Images to Insights”
January 24, 2024 @ 4:30 pmProf. Björn Ommer (University of Munich): “The Delusion of Scaling and the Democratization of Generative Models”
January 10, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amProf. Brian Wandell (Stanford): “Simulation technologies for image systems”
December 6, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 amAxel Levy (Stanford): Computational Methods for Image-Based 3D Reconstruction: from Inverse Rendering to Structural Biology
November 29, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmMagnus Wrenninge (Aurora): “How high fidelity simulation can show that driverless trucks are ready for the road”
November 15, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Enkelejda Kasneci (Technische Universität München): “Towards new ways of learning with Generative AI”
November 8, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amCynthia Lu (Adobe): “A sneak peek into the development of Adobe Firefly”
November 1, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Changwon Jang (Meta): “Waveguides + Holography for AR and VR”
October 25, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Sergey Tulyakov (SNAP): “Volumetric Generation and Animation with a Flavour of Efficiency”
October 18, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor C. Karen Liu (Stanford University): “Building Large Models for Human Motion”
October 11, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmNikhil Balram (CEO at Mojo Vision): “Micro-LED: The Next Big Disruption of the Display Industry”
October 4, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmKfir Aberman (Snap): “Beyond Imagination: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generative Models”
September 27, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Kaan Akşit (Univ College, London): “Could Holographic Displays be the key to achieving Realism?”
June 28, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Peter Wonka (KAUST): “Data Structures for Generative Modeling of 3D Shapes”
June 14, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Jung-Hoon Park ( UNIST, Korea): “Shaping Light for Bio-Imaging”
May 31, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmFrancois Chaubard (CEO at Focal Systems): “Lesson in Productizing Deep Learning Computer Vision: Automating Brick & Mortar Retail with State of the Art Computer Vision”
May 24, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Christoph Leuze (Stanford): “Headset design choices for augmented reality applications in industry and medicine.”
May 17, 2023 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Rajesh Menon (University of Utah): “Non-anthropocentric Imaging with & without optics”
May 10, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Na Ji (University of California at Berkeley): “Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution”
May 3, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Ioannis Gkioulekas (Carnegie Mellon University): “Interferometric computational imaging”
April 26, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Yuhao Zhu (Univ of Rochester): “Understanding, Modeling, and Improving Energy Efficiency of Computational Image Sensors”
April 19, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Ellen Zhong (Princeton University): “Neural fields for structural biology”
April 12, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Changhuei Yang (California Institute of Technology): “Computation in microscopy: How computers are changing the way we build and use microscopes”
April 5, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmProfessor Tali Treibitz (Univ of Haifa): “Towards visual autonomy underwater”
March 15, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Yichang Shih (Google): “Mobile Computational Photography with Ultrawide and Telephoto Lens”
March 1, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Andrea Tagliasacchi (Simon Fraser University): “Towards mass-adoption of Neural Radiance Fields”
February 22, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Tali Dekel (Weizmann Institute and Google): “Strong Interpretable Priors are All We Need”
February 15, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ben Poole (Google): “2D priors for 3D generation”
February 8, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Zeev Zalevsky (Bar-Ilan University): “Remote Photonic Medicine”
February 1, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Dan McGrath: “Insider’s View on Pixel Design”
January 25, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Lei Li (Rice University): “New Generation Photoacoustic Imaging: From benchtop wholebody imagers to wearable sensors”
January 18, 2023 @ 4:30 am - 5:30 pmDr. Jeong Joon (JJ) Park (Stanford): “Learning to Re-create Reality in 3D”
January 11, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Emily Cooper (UC Berkeley): Taking a binocular view of augmented reality system design
December 7, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Thomas Müller (NVIDIA): “Neural Networks in High Performance Graphics”
November 30, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Tara Akhavan (IRYStec): “Perceptual Displays Today & Tomorrow – Productization and Evaluation”
November 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Luca Fascione (NVIDIA): “Flavors of color”
November 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Hakan Urey (Koç University): “Computational Holographic Displays and AR Applications”
November 2, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Thomas Goossens (Stanford): “Camera simulation in a world of trade secrets”
October 26, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Yi Xue (UC Davis): “3D fluorescence and phase microscopy with scattering samples”
October 19, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Qi Sun (NYU): “Co-Optimizing Human-System Performance in XR”
October 12, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Orly Liba (Google): “Creative Camera: Advancing Computational Photography at Google”
October 5, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Federico Capasso (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science): “Flat Optics Unifies Semiconductor and Optical Technology: From Metalenses to Cameras and Smart Sensors”
June 8, 2022 @ 4:30 pmDr. Marc Droske (Weta Digital): “Singularities in light transport simulation for VFX and the limits of brute force”
June 1, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Susana Marcos (University of Rochester, New York):Ophthalmic imaging: from Optical bench to the eye care clinic
May 25, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Chrysanthe Preza (University of Memphis):”Engineering microscopes using computational imaging”
May 18, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Guillermo Sapiro (Duke University): “Computational Behavioral Coding for Developmental Disorders”
May 11, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Liang Gao (UCLA): “Ultrafast light field tomography”
May 4, 2022 @ 4:30 pmHao Li (Pinscreen, UC Berkeley): “AI Synthesis for the Metaverse: From avatars to 3D scenes “
April 20, 2022 @ 4:30 pmMatthew Tancik (UC Berkeley): “3D Asset Generation using Neural Radiance Fields”
April 13, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Michael Brown (York University, Canada): “Rethinking the Camera Pipeline to Improve Photographic and Scientific Applications”
April 6, 2022 @ 4:30 pmDr. Marc Levoy (Stanford, Adobe): “Computational photography at the point of capture on mobile cameras”
March 30, 2022 @ 4:30 pmDr. Boyd Fowler (Omnivision): “Highlights of the 2021 International Image Sensor Workshop”
March 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Yifan Wang (Stanford): “Neuralize” geometry processing pipeline
March 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Bernard Kress (Google): “Novel XR hardware requirements providing Metaverse level consumer and enterprise experiences”
March 2, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Sara Nagelberg and Dr. João Fayad (Owl Labs): “Cameras for Hybrid Work”
February 23, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Mark Brongersma (Stanford): “Flat Optics for Dynamic Wavefront Manipulation and Mixed Reality Eyewear”
February 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Jelena Notaros (MIT): ” Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and Beyond”
February 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Kwaben Boahen (Stanford): “Event-based Vision Sensors: Challenges and Opportunities”
February 2, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmKevin Chavez (Dexterity.ai): “Dexterity.ai: Robotics for the future of logistics”
January 19, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Jason Lawrence (Google): “Project Starline: A high-fidelity telepresence system”
January 12, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Christian Theobalt (MPI Informatik) : “Neural Methods for Reconstruction and Rendering of Real World Scenes”
November 17, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amProfessor Wenzel Jakob (EPFL): “Differentiable Simulation of Light”
November 10, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amProf. Jannick Rolland (University of Rochester): Freeform Optics for Imaging and Metaform Optics in Near-Eye Displays
November 3, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Holly Rushmeier (Yale): “Design Tools for Material Appearance”
October 27, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Michelle Digman (UC Irvine)
October 20, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmAgastya Kalra (Akasha): “Polarized Computational Imaging and Beyond”
October 13, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
