Kaan Akşit
Associate Professor of Computational Light at University College London, Optica Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, SPIE Senior Member, Optica Intelligent Interfaces and Displays Technology Chair, ACM TOG Associate Editor
kaanaksit@kaanaksit.com
Kaan Akşit is an Associate Professor of Computational Light in the Computer Science Department at University College London in the UK, where he also leads the Computational Light Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Koç University, Türkiye*, in 2014. He received his M.Sc. degree in electrical power engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2010. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye, in 2007. His research focuses on the intersection of light and computation, including computational approaches in imaging, graphics, fabrication, and displays. His work is 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 at Philips Research, the Netherlands, and Disney Research, Switzerland, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In addition, he was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, the United States of America, from 2014 to 2020. Over the years, his research 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 completing their master’s thesis in the domains of computational displays, computational imaging, perceptual graphics, physically informed deep learning models, generative models in physical sciences, and optical computing, they 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 reviewing activities, list of talks or academic services, please visit biography section of this website.
news
| Jun 03, 2026 | 📰 Our work, Text-guided Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Understanding, is presented at CVPR 2026 Workshop on Subtle Visual Computing in Denver, Colorado, United States of America. This work is a collaboration with a series of academic parties including Jihao (Geo) Gu (谷纪豪), Kun Li, He Wang and Kaan Akşit. 🏆 This work received the best honorable mention award in the same workshop at the conference. |
|---|---|
| Jun 03, 2026 | 📰 Our work, Editing Physiological Signals in Videos Using Latent Representations, is presented at CVPR 2026 Workshop on Subtle Visual Computing in Denver, Colorado, United States of America. This work is a collaboration with a series of academic parties including Tianwen Zhou (周添文), Akshay Paruchuri, Josef Spjut and Kaan Akşit. |
| May 04, 2026 | 🗣️ Kaan presented an invited talk titled AI-Driven Optics: Catalyst of Future Computing, Imaging & Display Technology at Society of InformatiDisplay’s Display Week 2026. |
| May 04, 2026 | 📰 Our work, Compressing Double Phase Holograms using 2D Gaussians, is accepted to EuroGraphics 2026 Poster track and will be presented at EuroGraphics 2026 in Aachen, Germany. This work is a collaboration with a series of academic parties including Xiaoyue (Merry) Fan, Yicheng Zhan (战弈诚), Amrita Mazumdar, and Kaan Akşit |
| Mar 25, 2026 | 📰 Our work, Complex-Valued Holographic Radiance Fields, is accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles, United States of America. This work is a collaboration with a series of academic parties including Yicheng Zhan (战弈诚), Dong-Ha Shin, Seung-Hwan Baek (백승환) and Kaan Akşit |
selected publications
- SIGGRAPH











