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Yingsi Qin

PhD Candidate
Carnegie Mellon University
yingsiq[at]andrew[dot]cmu[dot]edu


Hi wonderful humans ✨

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Aswin C. Sakaranarayanan and Matthew P. O'Toole.

Prior to CMU, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, and my Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Colgate University.
I worked as a research intern at Meta Reality Labs in the Display Systems Research team (2024) and Snap Research in the Computational Imaging team (2020). I was also a software engineering intern at Google Search (2019).

Research Interests

My research focuses on designing and building next-generation computational 3D displays for Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. The area of my research involves a fusion of computer vision, optics, signal processing, and machine learning.


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Selected Publications

  1. Conference
    Single-Shot VR
    Yingsi Qin, Wei-Yu Chen, Matthew O'Toole, and Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies
    Paper Vid Web BibTex
    Best Demo Award at ICCP

    Journal
    Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays
    Yingsi Qin, Wei-Yu Chen, Matthew O'Toole, and Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
    ACM Transactions on Graphics / SIGGRAPH 2023
    Paper Supp Vid Code NEW! Web Blender BibTex
    Best Paper Award

    Journal
    Pendulum Beams: Optical Modes that Simulate the Quantum Pendulum
    Enrique J. Galvez, Fabio J. Auccapuclla, Yingsi Qin, Kristina L. Wittler, and Jake M. Freedman
    Journal of Optics 2021
    Paper BibTex

    Conference
    Simulating Quantum Mechanics with Light: the Quantum Pendulum via Mathieu Beams
    Enrique J. Galvez, Fabio J. Auccapuclla, Yingsi Qin, and Kristina L. Wittler
    Frontiers in Optics 2019
    Paper BibTex

The full list of publications is on my google scholar page.


Selected Talks

  1. SIGGRAPH 2023
    Technical Paper Talk [recordings]
    Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays

    August 2023 in Los Angeles, CA

    SIGGRAPH 2023
    20-Second Fast Forward [recordings]
    Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays

    August 2023 in Los Angeles, CA

    TechBeat 人工智能社区
    30-Minute Talk in Mandarin [recordings]
    Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays

    October 2023 Remote

Other Invited Talks and Demos

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Press Coverage

ACM Siggraph Blog 2023 Techxplore Tencent Sohu CMU Engineering Magazine CMU Engineering Jaingmen

Projects

  1. 3D Hologram
    Project for 15862 Computational Photography at CMU, Fall 2021
    Paper Code

    DeepDraw: Fast Domain Translation from Sketches to Photo-Realistic Faces
    Project for COMS 6735 Visual Databases at Columbia, Spring 2021
    Paper Website

    Quantum Image Classification with Quantum Convolutional Neural Network
    Project for COMS 6998 Quantum Computing Theory and Practice at Columbia, Spring 2020
    Paper

    Verifying Perception as a Sensory-Motor Loop Process through Deep Learning
    Project for COMS 6998 Computation and the Brain at Columbia, Fall 2020
    Paper

    Simulating the Navier-Stokes Equations for Incompressible Viscous Fluid Flow in 2D
    Project for PHYS 451 Computational Mechanics at Colgate, Fall 2018
    Paper

    A Driving Game: Move Before the Skyfall
    Project for PHYS 336 Electronics at Colgate, Spring 2018
    Description Circuit Diagram Demo

Teaching


Paragliding

I fly as a paragliding pilot. I soar xc among mountains, over forests, across rivers, and near oceans.