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This page will give you a complete of our current members. At the end of the page, you will also find our alumni list as a separate section.

Current members

All our current members are located in 169 Euston Road, London NW1 2AE, United Kingdom.

Faculty

Kaan Akşit

Associate Professor of Computational Light

E-mail

Office: R409

Doctoral students

Yicheng Zhan

Ph.D. Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: R404.188

Ziyang Chen

Ph.D. Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: R404.187

Interns

Xinyao Zhuang

MSc Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: Hybrid (R404.186)

Jihao (Geo) Gu

MSc Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: Hybrid (R404.186)

Lifeng Qiu Lin

MSc Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: Hybrid (R404.186)

Xiaoyue (Merry) Fan

MSc Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: Hybrid (R404.186)

Zicong Peng

MSc Student (University College London)

E-mail

Office: Hybrid (R404.186)

Henry Kam

MSc Student (New York University)

E-mail

Office: Virtual

Chuanjun Zheng

MSc Student (Shenzhen University)

E-mail

Office: Virtual

Alumni

Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • David Robert Walton, Investigation on perceptually guided display technology, 2021-2022, Next: Lecturer at Birmingham City University.

Master and Bachelor Students

  • Chengkun Li, Neural Optical Beam Propagation, 2021, Next: Ph.D. student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Chuanjun Zheng, Focal Surface Holographic Light Transport using Learned Spatially Adaptive Convolutions, 2025, Next: Ph.D. student at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
  • Chung-Yu (Kevin) Wei, Novel 3D Representations for assessing damages in cars, 2025, Next: Research Intern at Tractable.
  • Gbemisola Akinola-Alli, Differentiable Ray Tracing for Designing Optical Parts, 2022, Next: Senior Engineer at MBDA.
  • Hongbin Zhang, 2D Gaussian Splatting with Lensless Cameras, 2025, Next: -.
  • Jeanne Beyazian, Hologram Compression, 2022, Next: Computer Vision Developer at Glimpse Analytics.
  • Jiasheng Yang, Localization aware Steganography, 2025, Next: Research Intern at University College London.
  • Jiayi Wang, Modeling Keystroke Dynamics via Pairwise Timing Estimation, 2025, Next: -.
  • Jihao (Geo) Gu, Text-guided Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Detection, 2025, Next: Research Intern at University College London.
  • Jingxuan Zhong, Summaries Improve Consistency in LLM-based NPCs, 2025, Next: M.Sc. Student at University College London.
  • Junhao Cheng, Migrating Differentiable Rendering to Latent Space for designing immersive displays, 2025, Next: High-School teacher.
  • Lifeng Qiu Lin, Foveation Improves Payload Capacity in Steganography, 2025, Next: Visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University.
  • Oliver Kingshott, Learned Point-spread Functions for Lensless Imaging, 2021, Next: Ph.D. Student at University College London.
  • Pengze Li, Text to hologram, 2024, Next: -.
  • Tianwen Zhou, Editing Physiological Signals in Videos Using Latent Representations, 2025, Next: Researcher in Huawei Technology Ltd.
  • Toma Kolev, Learned methods for Lensless cameras, 2025, Next: Software Engineer at Smartsoft Healthcare.
  • Weijie Xie, Learned Method for Computer Generated Hologram, 2024, Next: Intern Researcher at University College London.
  • Xiaoyue (Merry) Fan, Compressing Double-Phase Holograms using 2D Gaussians, 2025, Next: Research Intern at University College London.
  • Xinyao Zhuang, Prompt-Driven Color Accessibility in Image Generation, 2025, Next: Research Intern at University College London.
  • Xinyu (Lina) Gu, Novel 3D Representations for assessing damages in cars, 2025, Next: Research Intern at Tractable.
  • Yilin Qu, Predicting Next Frames of a RGBD video, 2022, Next: Machine Learning Software Engineer at Qualcomm Incorporated.
  • Yuze Yang, Learned 3D Representations: Point Cloud, Depth Maps and Holograms, 2021, Next: -.
  • Zhiren Zan, Detecting Fabrication Defects from images using multi-modal Large Language Models, 2024, Next: -.
  • Zicong Peng, Assessing Learned Models for Phase-only Hologram Compression, 2025, Next: Ph.D. student at Koç University.
  • Zhuoxuan Jiang, Enhancing Color and Brightness Contrast in Diffusion-Based Image Generation via Prompt Engineering, 2025, Next: -.
  • Ziyang Chen, Speckle imaging with a lensless camera, 2023, Next: Ph.D. student at University College London.

Research Interns

  • Abubakar Sharif, as a part of In2Science UK programme, 2022, Next: -.
  • Ahmet Hamdi Güzel,Perceptual Prescription Correction, 2022-2024, Next: Ph.D. Student at University College London.
  • Debosmit Neogi, Compressing RGBD data, 2022, Next: Master of Science at University at Buffalo.
  • Doğa Yılmaz, Learned Single-Pass Multitasking Perceptual Graphics for Immersive Displays, 2024-2025, Next: Ph.D. student at University College London.
  • Henry Kam, Foveation Improves Payload Capacity in Steganography, 2025, Next: Graduate student at New York University.
  • Kerem Eroğlu, Embedding data to images, 2022, Next: MEng at University College London.
  • Koray Kavaklı, Towards Improving Visual Quality in Computer-Generated Holography, 2021, Next: Ph.D. Student at Koç University.
  • Nerea Sainz De La Maza, Printable camera casing design, 2022, Next: Bachelor of Science at University College London.
  • Serhat Aksoy, Volume rendering tool, 2022, Next: Bachelor of Science at Istanbul Technical University.
  • Josh Kaizer, as a part of In2Science UK programme, 2022, Next: -.
  • Yichen Zou, 3D Dataset generation, 2022, Next: Graduate Student at McGill Univesity.