Kaan Akşit's personal website
Associate Professor of Computational Light at University College London

kaanaksit@kaanaksit.com
Kaan Akşit is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department
at University College London
, where he leads the Computational Light Laboratory
.
Kaan received his PhD degree in electrical engineering at Koç University
, Türkiye*
, in 2014.
His M.Sc. degree is in electrical power engineering from RWTH Aachen University
, Germany, obtained in 2010.
Kaan obtained his B.S. degree 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 virtual reality, augmented reality, and three-dimensional displays with glasses and without glasses.
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 research scientist at NVIDIA
, the USA, between 2014 and 2020.
He is the recipient of Emerging Technologies best in show awards in SIGGRAPH 2019
and SIGGRAPH 2018
, DCEXPO special prize in SIGGRAPH 2017
, the best papers in ISMAR 2018
and IEEE VR 2017
, and best paper nominee in IEEE VR 2019
and IEEE VR 2021
.
Keywords: Computational Light
, Computational Displays
, Perceptual Graphics
Websites: Personal website
, Computational Light Laboratory
, Odak library
For more details about Kaan’s academic profile such as conflicts, list of talks or academic servies, please visit biography section
of this website.
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