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Nick Antipa

Nick Antipa is an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering where he heads the UCSD Computational Imaging Lab. He received his PhD in Computational Imaging at UC Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department with Laura Waller and Ren Ng. Prior to his time at Berkeley, Nick worked as an optical engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, designing 3D metrology equipment in support of the National Ignition Facility. Nick received his MS in Optics from the University of Rochester in 2009, and BS in Optical Science and Engineering at UC Davis in 2008.

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Current Ph.D. Students

Chi-Jui (Jerry) Ho

Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego

BS, Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2019

Research Interest 

End-to-end optical model design and spectrum reconstruction.

Hobbies

Baseball and Go

Email

chh009@ucsd.edu


Personal Website

https://jerryhotaiwan.github.io



Xiang Dai

Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego

MS, BME, Duke University, 2021

BS, Electro-optical Engineering, Changchun University of Sci & Tech, 2019

Research Interest 

Novel microscopy and camera design

Hobbies

Basketball, fishing and surfing

Email

xidai@ucsd.edu

Personal Website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiang-dai

Chinmay Talegaonkar

Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego

Sr. Deep Learning Engineer, Intrinsic.ai / Akasha Imaging, 2021-2022

MS, ECE, UCLA, 2021

BS, EE, IIT Bombay, 2019

Research Interest 

Novel 3D vision/imaging algorithms for
robotics, AR and environmental applications

Hobbies

Hiking, Traveling, Running, Table Tennis

Email

ctalegaonkar@ucsd.edu

Personal Website

https://chinmay0301.github.io

Kevin Tandi

Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego

BS, Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2022

Research Interest 

End-to-end optimization of optics

Hobbies

Photography, Traveling, Cooking, Badminton

Email

ktandi@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Student

Richard Oliveira

Undergraduate student, ECE, UC San Diego

Research Interest 

Machine learning and signal processing and their applications

Hobbies

Basketball, walks on the beach

Email

raolivei@ucsd.edu

Personal Website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-oliveira-a792651b2/





Donovan Sanders

Undergraduate student, ECE, UC San Diego

Research Interest 

Digital signal processing, bioinformatics and intelligent/control systems

Hobbies

Guitar, stakeboarding and most sports

Email

dsanders@ucsd.edu


Yifei Deng

Undergraduate student, Math, UC San Diego

Research Interest 

Computational Optics, 3D imaging

Hobbies

Piano, anime and skateboarding

Email

yid008@ucsd.edu