Yingsi Qin

About Me

I am a final-year PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan and Prof. Matthew O'Toole. I am part of the Image Science Lab and Carnegie Mellon Computational Imaging.

I obtained my B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University, focused on Artificial Intelligence, and my B.A. in Physics from Colgate University. I have interned at Meta Reality Labs Display Systems Research (2024, 2025), Snap Research Computational Imaging (2020), and Google Search (2019).

My research interests span broadly among computer vision, computational imaging, display systems, 3D perception, and machine learning. My work has been recognized with the Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH 2023, Best Demo Award at ICCP 2023, and the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ICCV 2025.

News

• Sep 2026I gave a talk at the Visual Computing Seminar at Dartmouth. Thanks Aditya for the invite!
• May 2026Honored to be selected as a Rising Star in Computer Graphics by WiGRAPH!
• Feb 2026I gave a talk at Johns Hopkins University CCVL Seminar. Thanks for the invite!
• Jan 2026I gave a talk at Cohere Labs. Thanks for the invite!
• Dec 2025I gave a talk at CMU Computer Vision Reading Group. Thanks for the invite!
• Nov 2025I gave a talk at MIT Quantum Photonics. Thanks Dirk for having me!
• Oct 2025Our paper SVAF won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ICCV 2025!
• Oct 2025I gave a talk for SVAF at ICCV 2025. Recordings available. Thanks for the invite!
• Oct 2025We demoed our real-time prototype for SVAF at ICCV 2025!

• Jul 2025Our paper Spatially-Varying Autofocus (SVAF) is accepted to ICCV 2025!
• May 2025I started my research scientist internship at Meta Reality Labs Research!
• Feb 2025Grateful to be awarded the James Sprague Presidential Fellowship at CMU!
• Sep 2024I gave a talk at FiO LS: ARVR Theme. Thanks for the invite!
• Sep 2024I gave a talk at VASC seminar @ CMU. Thanks for the invite!
• May 2024I started my research scientist internship at Meta Reality Labs Research!
• Apr 2024Gave a talk at UCL. Recordings available. Thanks Kaan for inviting and hosting!
• Mar 2024Grateful to be awarded the Tan Endowed Graduate Fellowship at CMU.
• Nov 2023Gave a talk at NYU. Thanks Qi for inviting and hosting!
• Oct 2023Gave a talk at TechBeat. Thanks for the invite!
• Oct 2023My technical paper talk and fast forward from SIGGRAPH 2023 are now available.
• Aug 2023Our demo Split-Lohmann won the Best Demo Award at ICCP 2023!
• Jun 2023Our paper Split-Lohmann won the Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH 2023!
• May 2023We will showcase the binocular demo for Split-Lohmann at SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies Aug 6-10. The demo will include static, video, and interactive 3D experience. Join us in Los Angeles!
• May 2023Our demo Single-Shot VR is accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies!
• May 2023Our paper Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays is accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023!

Selected Publications

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

Selected Talks

Other Invited Talks and Demos

• Sep 2026Talk“Spatially Programmable Lensing”Dartmouth Vision Science Seminar, Remote
• Feb 2026Talk“Spatially Programmable Lensing”Johns Hopkins University CCVL Seminar, Remote
• Jan 2026Talk“Spatially-Varying Autofocus”Cohere Labs, Remote
• Dec 2025Talk“Spatially Programmable Lensing”CMU Computer Vision Reading Group, Pittsburgh, PA
• Nov 2025Talk“Spatially Programmable Lensing”MIT Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar, hosted by Dirk Englund, Cambridge, MA
• Oct 2025Demo“Spatially-Varying Autofocus”, 2-hour sessionICCV 2025, Honolulu, HI
• Jul 2025Demo“Spatially-Varying Autofocus”, 2-hour sessionICCP 2025, Toronto, Canada

• Sep 2024Talk“Instant 3D Worlds via Split-Lohmann Lens”FiO LS: ARVR Theme, hosted by Praneeth Chakravarthula, Denver, CO
• Sep 2024Talk“Instant 3D Worlds via Split-Lohmann Displays”VASC Seminar, CMU, hosted by Fernando De la Torre, Pittsburgh, PA
• Mar 2024Talk“Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays”University College London [recordings], hosted by Kaan Akşit, remote
• Dec 2023DemoBinocular Split-Lohmann Displays, 1-hour sessionIntroduction to XR Systems, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
• Dec 2023DemoBinocular Split-Lohmann Displays, 2-hour sessionExtended Reality Technology Center (XRTC), CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
• Nov 2023Talk“Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays”NYU Tandon School of Engineering, hosted by Qi Sun, New York, NY
• Aug 2023DemoSingle-Shot VR (Binocular Split-Lohmann), 5-day sessionSiggraph 2023 Emerging Technologies, Los Angeles, CA
• Jul 2023DemoBinocular Split-Lohmann Displays, 3-hour sessionICCP 2023, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Press Coverage

Spatially-Varying Autofocus

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Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays

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Projects