Kaan Akşit
Associate Professor of Computational Light at University College London,
Optica Senior Member, Optica Display Technology Executive Committee, UCL Departmental Laser Safety Officer, 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 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, perceptual graphics, physically informed deep learning models and generative models in physical sciences, optical computing, 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
selected publications
- IEEE ISMAROptical gaze tracking with spatially-sparse single-pixel detectorsIn 2020 IEEE international symposium on mixed and augmented reality (ISMAR), Mar 2020
- IEEE VRManufacturing application-driven foveated near-eye displaysIEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Mar 2019
- SIGGRAPH
- SIGGRAPHNear-eye varifocal augmented reality display using see-through screensACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Mar 2017