SCIEN Seminars
Upcoming Talks
Ayush Jamdar (UCSD): “ISET-LFM: A Physics-based Simulation Framework and Dataset for LED Flicker in Automotive Imaging”
May 6 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Frederic P Poitevin (SLAC)
May 13 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Tengyu Ma (Stanford): TBD
May 20 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Angela Dai (Technical University of Munich): “Building 3D Worlds from Imperfect Data”
May 27 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Keenan Crane (Carnegie Mellon University): “Compressed Shape Representations for Geometric Computing & Learning”
June 3 @ 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.
Professor Thierry Tambe (Stanford): “Data Representations for Efficient AI”
April 29 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Dalya Baron (Stanford): “Unifying the Digital Sky in the Era of Survey Astronomy”
April 22 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmHong-Xing (Koven) Yu (Stanford): “Physics-Grounded World Models”
April 15 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Anthony Gatti (Stanford University Radiology): “Neural Implicit Representations For Understanding Musculoskeletal Health & Disease “
April 8 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmXinran (Nicole) Han (Harvard): “Seeing Through Ambiguity: Generative Models for Perceptually-consistent Computer Vision”
March 11 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Tong Wu (Stanford): “From Objects to Worlds: High-fidelity 3D/4D World Modeling”
March 4 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Thomas Goossens (ASML) : “Metrology for high volume chip manufacturing: Nanoscale precision with optical microscopy”
February 25 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Igor Gilitschenski (University of Toronto) : “The Shape of Things to Come”
February 18 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Aaron Roodman (Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory): “First Look with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the World’s Largest Camera”
February 4 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Anand Lalwani (Cardinal Robotics): Building and scaling real world robotics business – unfiltered stories from behind the scenes.
January 28 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmHaiwen (Haven) Feng (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems): “Structural Imagination: From Inverse Graphics to World Simulation”
January 21 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Lior Yariv (Stanford) : “Learning Signed Distance Representations for 3D Modeling”
January 14 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Achin Bhowmik (Stanford University and Starkey Hearing): Enhancing and Augmenting Human Auditory Perception and Communication
January 7 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmNoam Elata (Technion): ” Diffusion Models for Posterior Sampling and Adaptive Sensing”
December 10, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Abe Davis (Cornell University): “Lawless Progress on Wicked Problems: New Design Opportunities at the Intersection of AI, Visual Computing, & User Interaction”
November 19, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Suyeon Choi (Stanford University): “Holographic displays based on artificial intelligence”
November 5, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Qianqian Wang (UC Berkeley): Learning to Perceive the 4D World
October 29, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmNadav Orbach (Founder and CEO at RealSense): “RealSense – The Visual Cortex of Embodied AI”
October 22, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmAmit Kohli (UC Berkeley): Computational aberration correction beyond deconvolution
October 15, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Chiao Liu (Meta): “AI Sensors for Wearable Devices”
October 8, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor David Fleet (Google DeepMind, University of Toronto): 3d Structure and Motion from Single Particle Cryo-EM
October 1, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Bo Mu (Omnivision): “Hybrid CIS+EVS Sensor Fusion “
June 4, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Andrea Colaco (Google): “Agentic AI for XR”
May 28, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Gun-Yeal Lee (Stanford): ” Nanophotonics and AI for display and imaging system applications”
May 21, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Laura Waller (UCB): “Space-time methods for computational microscopy”
May 14, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Nihar Mohanty (Meta): “Waveguide Innovations on Path to Immersive Augmented Reality”
May 7, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmAlastair Grant (DigiLens): “Enabling the Next Generation of Digital Mobility With Volume Holographic Waveguides”
April 30, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Yinghao Xu (Stanford): ” Re-creating 3D World from 2D Images with 3D Generative AI”
April 23, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Jorge Otero-Millan (UCB): “How we move the eyes and how we keep them still”
April 16, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Changan Chen (Stanford): “4D Audio-Visual Learning: Multimodal Perception and Generation from Spaces to Humans”
April 9, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Bernard Kress (Google): “Display architectures for all-day-use smart eyewear”
April 2, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Douglas Lanman (Meta): “Perceptually Driven Development of AR/VR Displays”
March 12, 2025 @ 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, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Jon Barron (Google): “Radiance Fields and the Future of Generative Media”
February 26, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. David Fattal (Leia): ” 3D Displays in the Age of AI”
February 19, 2025 @ 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, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Grace Kuo (Meta): “Towards Holographic AR Glasses”
February 5, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Edward Buckley (Swave) on “Holographic Displays for Augmented Reality”
January 30, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmProf. Shwetadwip Chowdhury (UT Austin): “Computational bio-imaging via inverse scattering”
January 29, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Peyman Milanfar (Google): “Denoising: A Powerful Building-Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems, and Machine Learning”
January 22, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Guandao Yang (Stanford): “Toward Spatial Intelligence with Limited Data”
January 15, 2025 @ 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 pm
