Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Office: Porter Hall B24
Phone: (412) 268-1087
Email: saswin AT andrew.cmu.edu
Mailing address: 425 Hamerschlag Dr, Room 1301
ECE Department, Hamerschlag Hall,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Affiliations: Image Science Lab, Imaging @CMU
Current Courses
- Fall 2026
- 18-395: Introduction to Computer Vision
- Spring 2026
- 18-290: Signals and Systems
Previous Courses
- 18-453: Introduction to XR Systems
- 18-780/786: Introduction to Deep Learning
- 18-793: Image and Video Processing
- 18-799N: Computational Sensors
- 18-799J: Compressive Sensing and Sparse Optimization
Paper Awards
- Best paper award (Marr Prize) - honorable mention, ICCV 2025 — Spatially varying autofocus
- Best paper award, SIGGRAPH 2023 — Split-Lohmann multifocal displays
- Best paper award, ICCP 2022 — Polarized spiral PSFs for single-shot 3D sensing
- Best paper award, ICCP 2021 — Designing display pixel layouts for under-panel cameras
- Best paper award, CVPR 2019 — A theory of Fermat paths for non-line-of-sight shape reconstruction
Other Honors
- CMU College of Engineering Dean's Early Career Fellowship, 2018–2021
- NSF CAREER Award, 2017
- Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award (jointly with Grover, Yu and Stern), 2017
- Eta Kappa Nu (Sigma Chapter) Excellence in Teaching Award, 2017
- Herschel M. Rich Invention Award, 2016
- Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Maryland, 2009
- Best demo award, ICCP 2023
- Best poster award, ICCP 2019
- Best paper awards, CCD 2015, AMFG 2010