Kaan Akşit
Associate Professor of Computational Light at University College London,
Optica Senior Member, Optica Display Technology Executive Committee, UCL Departmental Laser Safety Officer
kaanaksit@kaanaksit.com
Kaan Akşit is an associate professor of computational light in the Computer Science department
at University College London
in the United Kingdom, where Kaan also leads the Computational Light Laboratory
. Kaan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Koç University
, Türkiye*
, in 2014. His M.Sc. degree is in electrical power engineering from RWTH Aachen University
, Germany, in 2010. Kaan obtained his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University
, Türkiye, in 2007. Kaan researches the intersection of light and computation, including computational approaches in imaging, graphics, fabrication, and displays. Kaan’s research works are widely known among the optics and graphics community for his contributions to display technologies dedicated to 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality. He worked as a research intern in Philips Research
, the Netherlands, and Disney Research
, Switzerland, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In addition, he was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA
, the USA, between 2014 and 2020. Over the years, Kaan’s research works has been recognized with numerous awards from various highly respected venues and institutions including ACM SIGGRAPH
, IEEE VR and ISMAR
and Optica
.
Prospective Students: Students interested in conducting research work for their master thesis in the domains of computational displays, computational imaging, physically informed deep learning models and generative models in physical sciences, can reach out via email for more details. Students are encouraged to reach out via email for open Ph.D. studentships
and research intern positions with their resume and research statements.
Keywords: Computational Light
, Computational Displays
, Perceptual Graphics
, Optical Computing
Websites: Personal website
, Computational Light Laboratory
, Odak Toolkit
Public engagements: High-Beams Seminars
, Research Hub
For more details about Kaan’s academic profile such as conflicts, list of talks or academic services, please visit biography section
of this website.
news
Feb 4, 2024 | 📰 Our paper, All-optical image denoising using a diffractive visual processor , is published at Light: Science & Applications. This work is a collaboration between Çağatay Işıl, Tianyi Gan, Fazil Onuralp, Koray Mentesoglu, Jagrit Digani, Huseyin Karaca, Hanlong Chen, Jingxi Li, Deniz Mengu, Mona Jarrahi, Kaan Akşit, and Ozcan Aydogan. |
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Jan 28, 2024 | 📰 Our paper, AutoColor: Learned Light Power Control for Multi-Color Holograms , is presented at SPIE AR|VR|MR 2024. This work is a collaboration between Yicheng Zhan, Koray Kavaklı, Hakan Urey, Qi Sun, and Kaan Akşit. |
Dec 13, 2023 | 📰 Our paper, Multi-color Holograms Improve Brightness in Holographic Displays , is presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. This work is a collaboration between Koray Kavaklı, Liang Shi, Hakan Urey, Wojciech Matusik, and Kaan Akşit. |
Oct 13, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan helped organizing Optical Waveguides: A key to Socially Acceptable Augmented Reality Glasses? as an Optica Incubator. Kaan also gave an invited talk titled Role of Differentiable Models in Computational Display Research at the same incubator event. |
Oct 11, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan attended and presented at Meta’s Academic forum 2023 upon Meta Reality Labs invitation. Kaan’s talk is titled Unlocking Next-Generation Display Technologies with Holography. |