PI
PI
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.
Current Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2019
Research Interest
Physics-aware imaging system designs, optics simulation, neural rendering
End-to-end optical model design and spectrum reconstruction.
Hobbies
Baseball and Go
Personal Website
Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego
M.S., BME, Duke University, 2021
B.S., Electro-optical Engineering, Changchun University of Sci & Tech, 2019
Research Interest
Novel microscopy and camera design
Hobbies
Basketball, fishing and surfing
Personal Website
Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego
Sr. Deep Learning Engineer, Intrinsic.ai / Akasha Imaging, 2021-2022
M.S., ECE, UCLA, 2021
B.S., EE, IIT Bombay, 2019
Research Interest
Novel 3D vision/imaging algorithms for
robotics, AR and environmental applications
Hobbies
Hiking, Traveling, Running, Table Tennis
Personal Website
Ph.D. student, ECE, UC San Diego
B.S., Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2022
Research Interest
End-to-end optimization of optics
Hobbies
Photography, Traveling, Cooking, Badminton
Website
Current M.S. Students
M.S. student, ECE, UC San Diego
B.Tech, EE IIT Madras 2024
Research interests
Inverse problems, generative priors, camera modeling
Hobbies
Piano, Cooking, Frisbee
ajamdar@ucsd.edu
M.S. student, CSE, UC San Diego
B.S., Computer Science, Heidelberg University Ruperto Carola
Research interests
3D vision/imaging algorithms for robotics, 3D Reconstruction
Hobbies
Beach Volleyball, Surfing, Running, Strength Training
Personal Website
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-lorenz/
M.S. student, Machine Learning and Data Science, UC San Diego
B.S., Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
Research interests
physics-informed diffusion models, generative video reconstruction
Hobbies
Gaming, competitive programming, badminton
jih064@ucsd.edu
Alumni
Master Students
Jerry Yan, M.S., ECE, graduated in 2025. Now: Ph.D. at Purdue University
Nikhil Gandudi Suresh, M.S., ECE, graduated in 2025. Now: Qualcomm
Priyanka Nagasamudra, M.S., ECE, graduated in 2025. Now: Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara
Eveline Shih, M.S., ECE, graduated in 2023. Now: Apple
Undergraduate Students
Yifei Deng, B.S., Math, graduated in 2024. Now: M.S. at Stanford University
Richard Oliveira, B.S., ECE, graduated in 2022. Now: Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano