Presenter

Gordon Wetzstein is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Physical and Spatial Intelligence Lab, the faculty director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering, and a member of the Stanford AI Lab. Working at the intersection of computer graphics, vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, and applied vision science, Prof. Wetzstein's research spans a wide range of applications in next-generation imaging, creative AI, robotics, wearable computing, and neural rendering systems. A Fellow of Optica and the IEEE, Prof. Wetzstein is the recipient of numerous honors, including the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award. He has also been recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, and the Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, as well as the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award and several Best Paper and Demo Awards.