
Achuta Kadambi
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
COMPUTER SCIENCE
56-147J Engr. IV
Email: achuta@ee.ucla.eduPhone: (310) 206-0853
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Achuta Kadambi received the PhD degree from MIT and joined UCLA as an Assistant Professor. His publications have been presented as Orals at CVPR, ICCV, ICCP and SIGGRAPH. He is currently co-authoring a textbook ("Computational Imaging", MIT Press 2021) and is also a co-founder in a robotic imaging startup (http://akasha.im). Achuta's research has received several recognitions including the NSF CAREER Award, Forbes 30 under 30 (Science), Google Faculty Award, Sony Imaging Young Faculty Award, and Army Young Investigator Award (ARO-YIP).
Achuta Kadambi received the PhD degree from MIT and joined UCLA as an Assistant Professor. His publications have been presented as Orals at CVPR, ICCV, ICCP and SIGGRAPH. He is currently co-authoring a textbook ("Computational Imaging", MIT Press 2021) and is also a co-founder in a robotic imaging startup (http://akasha.im). Achuta's research has received several recognitions including the NSF CAREER Award, Forbes 30 under 30 (Science), Google Faculty Award, Sony Imaging Young Faculty Award, and Army Young Investigator Award (ARO-YIP).
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, Medical Devices
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
Five Selected Publications
- A Kadambi, and R Raskar. “Rethinking machine vision ToF with GHz heterodyning” IEEE Access 2017.
- A Kadambi, V Taamazyan, B Shi, and R Raskar. “Depth sensing using geometrically constrained..” IJCV 2017
- A Kadambi, J Schiel, and R Raskar “Macroscopic interferometry..” CVPR 2016
- A Kadambi, H Zhao, B Shi, and R Raskar. “Occluded imaging..” ACM ToG (pres SIGGRAPH 2016)
- A Kadambi, V Taamazyan, B Shi, and R Raskar.”Polarized 3d..” ICCV 2015
- US Patent #9,405,008, Multi-frequency Camera
- US Patent #9,638,801, Compressive LIDAR
- US Patent #9,778,363, Transient Deconvolution
- US Patent #9,897,698, Shuttered 3D Imaging
- US Patent #9,897,699, Virtual Sensor Array
IN THE NEWS
- Using Physics Data to Refocus Computer Vision | Communications of the ACM, August 2023
- Computer Vision Technique Leverages Reflections to Image the World | Tech Xplore, May 2023
- Meet the Scientists Who Want to Make Medical Devices Work for Everyone, Finally | Inverse, February 2023
- A Quick Remedy Proves Elusive for Life-Saving Pulse Oximeter’s Problems with Darker Skin | Forbes, January 2023
- UCLA Visual Machines Group develops biosensor that could eliminate racial bias | The Daily Bruin, September 2022
- University Of California, Los Angeles: Remote Heart Rate Sensors Can Be Biased Against Darker Skin. A UCLA Team Offers A Solution | India Education Diary, August 2022
- Remote Heart Rate Sensors Can Be Biased Against Darker Skin. UCLA team offers solution | Tech Xplore, August 2022
- Suffocating from Medical Bias | American Scientist, July 2022
- Flawed oxygen readings may be behind Covid-19’s toll on people of color | POLITICO, July 2022
- From oximeters to AI, where bias in medical devices may lurk | The Guardian, November 2021
- Fixing Medical Devices That Are Biased against Race or Gender | Scientific American, June 2021
- UCLA prof says racial bias in medical devices is based in physics | Medical Design and Outsourcing, April 2021
EDUCATION
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2017
- MS, Yale University 2012
- BS, University of California, Berkeley 2011
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- 2021, NSF CAREER Award
- 2021, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)
- 2021, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (ARO YIP)
- 2021, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers in Engineering
- 2020, Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors
- 2020, Google Faculty Award
- 2020, Young Faculty Award, Sony Imaging
- 2019, Forbes 30 Under 30, Science
- 2018, Best Paper Award, Int Conf on Comp. Photography
- 2017, Best Papers Issue, Int Journal of Computer Vision
- 2016, Rahamimoff Award, US-Israel Science Foundation
- 2016, Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
- 2015, Scientific American, World Changing Idea of 2015
- 2014, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
- 2013, Draper Fellowship
- 2011, Chancellor’s Scholar, Univ Calif, Berkeley
COURSES
- EE 102 - Digital Signal Procesing (UG)
- CS 188 - Computer Vision (UG)
- EE 239 - Computational Imaging (G)
- EE 211 - Digital Image Processing (G)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Program Chair, CVPR CCD
- Program Committee, ICCP
- Program Committee, CVPR