Principal Investigator

Research Administrator

Ashok Veeraraghavan

Rice Comp Imaging Group

Caroline Griffin

cag2@rice.edu

Collaborating Faculty

Jacob Robinson

Robinson Lab

Ashutosh Sabharwal

Scalable Health Group

Richard Baraniuk

DSP Group

Yingyan Lin

EIC Lab

Guha Balakrishnan

RVIG Group

Vivek Boominathan

GLEE Lab

Postdoctoral Researchers

Salman Siddique Khan

Lensless imaging, machine learning, visual privacy

Alankar Kotwal

Biomedical optics, fluorescence-guided surgery, physics-based imaging, neurosurgical oncology

Fernando Sebastian Chiwo

Biomedical optics, data science, optical-electrical instrumentation

Jimin Wu

Microscopy, neuroengineering, medical imaging and machine learning

Graduate Students

Sean Farrell

Millimeter-wave imaging, joint radar/comm systems

Matt Cheung

Machine learning for healthcare, wearables, neurophysiological monitoring

Bhargav Ghanekar

Computational optics, 3D imaging, endoscopy

Yuhao Liu

Geospatial AI & vision, generative models

Haiyun Guo

Adaptive optics, lensless imaging, structured light reconstruction

Weiyun Jiang

Imaging through turbulence

Aniket Dashpute

Thermal imaging, event sensors, differentiable rendering

Jing Wang

Computational imaging, meta surfaces, long range imaging

Alireza Azizi

Neuro engineering, CSF flow, hyper-spectral imaging

Kushal Vyas

Inverse problems, physics-based vision, implicit neural representations, real-time ML

Anirudh Bindiganavale Harish

Digital health, vision and imaging in healthcare, implicit representations

Angelina Yang

Computational imaging, end-to-end optimization, microscopy

Rania Jawed

Computational optics for biomedical imaging, reconstruction models

Young (Junzhe) Wang

Lensless imaging, biomedical applications, computational photography

Fay (Yifei) Liu

Biomedical applications, digital health

Vishesh Kumar

Physics-informed inference, compressed sensing, deep learning-based multiplexing

Stephen Tan

Digital health, computation imaging for wellbeing

Xuyue Zhang

Imaging, sensing and computer vision for biomedical applications

Undergraduate Students

Daniel Kim

Fall 2025 – Present

Implicit neural representations

Ahitagni Das

Fall 2024 – Present

2D Gaussian Splatting

Qiushi Dai

Fall 2024 – Present

Generative models, super-resolution

Moyinoluwa Orimoloye

Fall 2024 – Present

Imaging & Vision for surgical applications

Andrew Negrut

Summer 2024 – Present

Thermal 3-D Gaussian Splatting

Diya Gupta

Spring 2024 – Present

Driver State Sensing

Junho Kim

Fall 2023 – Present

Lensless imaging, object detection, face recognition

Tomi Kuye

Fall 2023 – Summer 2024

Lensless imaging, object detection, face recognition

Anyssa Castorina

Fall 2023 – Fall 2025

Imaging for surgical applications

Rachel Gu

Summer 2023 – Fall 2024

Medical devices, embedded systems

Luke Yuen

Summer 2023 – Spring 2025

Wearable prototyping for LSCI

Desiree Gutierrez

Summer 2023

Wearable systems, contact pressure, photoplethysmography

Trisha Chinnimeni

Summer 2023

Software development for Themis/LSCI

Akshay Shyam

Summer 2023

Hardware development for LSCI

Abbas Shaikh

Fall 2022 – Fall 2023

In-pixel privacy

Jack Pearce

Summer 2022 – Fall 2022

Hyperspectral imaging, physics-based rendering, inverse problems

Visiting Professors

Hiroshi Kawasaki

Kyushu University

Laura Waller

UC Berkeley

Kaushik Mitra

IIT Madras

Oliver Cossairt

Northwestern University

Postdoctoral Researcher Alumni

Salman Asif

Associate Professor, ECE
University of California, Riverside

Kaushik Mitra

Assistant Professor
IIT Madras, India

Aswin Sankaranarayanan

Professor, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University

Li Niu

Associate Professor,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Temiloluwa Prioleau

Assistant Professor, CS
Dartmouth College

Manoj Kumar Sharma

Researcher, General Motors R&D

Vishwanath Saragadam

Assistant Professor, ECE
University of California, Riverside

Vivek
Boominathan

Assistant Research Professor, ECE
Rice University

Mel White

Naval Research Lab

Ph. D. Alumni

Jason Holloway
2017

Apple

Mayank Kumar
2018

Stryker

Fan Ye
2019

Micron

Chris Metzler
2019

Assistant Professor, UMD 

Adithya Pediredla
2019

Assistant Professor, Dartmouth

George Chen
2019

Vayu Robotics

Vivek B
2019

Assistant Research Professor, Rice

Jesse Adams
2019

Synopic

Yicheng Wu
2021

Amazon

Ewa Nowara
2021

Meta

Xu Chen
2022

Ankit R
2022

Everyday Robots

Jasper Tan
2022

Glass Imaging

Akash Maity
2023

Samsung

Amruta Pai
2023

Rice University

Akshat Dave
2023

MIT Media Lab

Joshua Zhao
2023

Apple

Mary Jin
2023

Intuitive

Yongyi Zhao
2024

Metalenz

Shiyu Tan
2024

Synopic

Zaid Tasneem
2024

NEC Laboratories America

Tinayi Zhang
2025

Apple

Dong Yan
2025

Visiting Researcher Alumni

Yoshitaka Toyoda

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Japan

Ryuichi Tadano

SONY Corporation, Japan

Yoshitaka Miyatani

SONY Corporation, Japan

Atsushi Ito

SONY Corporation, Japan

Cecilia Lantos

MS Alumni

Salil Tambe
2015

Ali Ayremlou
2015

Kiba

Adam Samaniego
2016

OcuCheck

Qiong Huang
2016

Shizheng Zhang
2016

Sudarshan Nagesh
2018

Zendar

Jaehee Park
2018

CZBioHub

June Chen
2020

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