Yingsi Qin

Hi wonderful humans ✨

I am a third-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 at Snap Research in 2020 as a Research Intern, advised by Shree Nayar, Guru Krishnan, and Jian Wang. I also worked at Google Search in summer 2019 as a Software Engineering intern.

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.

News

• [May. 2024] I started my summer internship at Meta Reality Labs!
• [Apr. 2024] Gave a talk at UCL. Recordings available. Thanks Kaan for inviting and hosting!
• [Mar. 2024] Grateful to be awarded the Tan Endowed Graduate Fellowship at CMU.
• [Nov. 2023] Gave a talk at NYU. Thanks Qi for inviting and hosting!
• [Oct. 2023] Gave a talk at TechBeat. Thanks for the invite!
• [Oct. 2023] My technical paper talk and fast forward from SIGGRAPH 2023 are now available.
• [Aug. 2023] Our demo Split-Lohmann won the Best Demo Award at ICCP 2023!
• [Jun. 2023] Our paper Split-Lohmann won the Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH 2023!
• [May. 2023] We 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. 2023] Our demo Single-Shot VR is accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies!
• [May. 2023] Our 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

• NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 1-hour guest lecture
  Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays
  November 2023 in New York, NY

• University College London, 1-hour talk [recordings]
  Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays
  March 2024 Remote

Projects

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Signals and Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2021
• Peer Mentor, Engineering Student Council, Columbia University, 2019-2020
• Teaching Assistant, Data Structures and Algorithms, Colgate University, 2017-2019
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism, Colgate University, Spring 2018

Paragliding

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