I'm currently a PhD student at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Rice University, working with Ashok Veeraraghavan. My research lies at the intersection of computer vision and computational photography, where I build imaging system with unconventional optics to achieve image modality beyond RGB and facilitate computer vision tasks in the real world.
From 2015 to 2016, I have been visiting Oliver Cossairt's Group at Northwestern University, and Alyosha Molnar's Group, working with Suren Jayasuriya, at Cornell University. During my undergraduate days, I was fortunate enough to work with James Hays at Brown University, as well as Richard Zanibbi and Jinwei Gu at RIT Center for Imaging Science.
I'm interning at NVIDIA Research this summer (2017) and had great intern experience with IBM Research Austin in 2016. My project at IBM was featured at various media outlets.
I'm partially supported by a Texas Instruments Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship. Thank you, TI!
Zihao Wang, Leonidas Spinoulas, Kuan He, Lei Tian, Oliver Cossairt, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, and Huaijin G. Chen, Opt. Express 25 (1), 250-262 (2017)
Huaijin G. Chen*, Suren Jayasuriya*, Jiyue Yang, Judy Stephen, Sriram Sivaramakrishnan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Alyosha Molnar (* = joint first authors), CVPR 2016 (Oral)
Huaijin G. Chen, M. Salman Asif,
Aswin Sankaranarayanan and
Ashok Veeraraghavan, CVPR 2015
ELEC 599 Project Committee: Ashok Veeraraghavan,
Richard Baraniuk and
Kevin Kelly
Undergraduate Thesis, mentored by Richard Zanibbi, at DPRL, RIT Department of Computer Science
Intern, Mobile Visual Computing Lab, May - Aug, 2017
Deep Learning Powered Low-level Vision
Research Assistant, Ashok Veeraraghavan Lab, Sep 2013 - Present
Deep Learning Powered Computational Photography and Computer Vision
Intern, Cognitive System Solutions, May - Aug 2016
MERA: Multi-purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant
Press Coverage: [Austin American-Statesman]
[PR News Wire]
[IEEE GlobalSpec]
[KUOW Seattle Public Radio]
Visiting Researcher, Oliver Cossairt Lab, Mar - May 2016
Compressive Spatial-temporal Multiplexing ToF Camera and Video Holography
Visiting Researcher, Alyosha Molnar Lab, Sep - Nov 2015
Deep Learning with ASP Sensor
Undergraduate Research Intern, James Hays Lab, Jun - Sep 2012
Internet-scale Image Geo-localization
Ph.D, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016 - Present
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013 - 2016
B.S. (High Honors), Imaging Science, 2009 - 2013
Concentration in Music
Visiting Student at St. Catherines's College, Fall 2012
Courses in Music and Computer Science
High School Diploma, Jun 2009
Created and managed SenseWatch with Rice OwlSpark program at Texas Medical Center Accelerator (TMCx). SenseWatch is a startup focused on utilizing wearable devices for human-computer interaction via gesture recognition and vital sign interpretation.
by Chen, Huaijin, Hope Cowan and Emma Wine, Live harp and computer music performance, 15th LaTex Electrionic Music Festival, Rice University, Houston, TX Nov 20-21, 2015
Napas Udomsak, B.S. ECE, Rice University 19’, Century Scholar
Yuzhong Huang, B.S. ECE, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 18’
Jiyue Yang, B.S. ECE, Cornell University 16’, now at UCLA ECE
Judy Stephen, B.S. ECE, Cornell University 16’
Volunteer Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography 2016
Reviewer, OSA Applied Optics
TA, ELEC 345/546 Introduction to Computer Vision, Rice University, Spring 2017
Invited Instructor, ELEC 681 Fundamentals of Machine Learning, Rice University, Spring 2016
TA, BIOE 451/452, ELEC 494 Senior Design, Rice University, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
TA, ELEC 241 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I, Rice University, Spring 2014
From 2009 to 2013, I was an undergraduate student at RIT, studying Imaging Science in the Carlson Center for Imaging Science and Management Information System in the Saunders College of Business. I spent the fall semester of my senior year at St. Catz at University of Oxford, UK as a visiting student, taking courses in Computer Graphics and Machine Learning, and studying Analysis of 18th Century Music with Dr. John Traill. I graduated from RIT with a Bachelor's Degree (High Honors) in Imaging Science and a concentration in Music in May 2013.
I lived in the beautiful city of Shenzhen before I came to the United State. Shenzhen Experimental School had been my school for 12 years from elementary school to high school.
In my spare time, I enjoy playing piano, writing wired music, rock climbing, driving and traveling with my camera. I opened a small bar Nakama with my high school roommates in Shenzhen.