Grounding Flat Optics
Reform the Way Humans & Machines See the World
Jipeng Sun is currently conducting computational imaging research at Princeton Computational Imaging Lab advised by Prof. Felix Heide as a Ph.D student. Previously he was a Ph.D student at Northwestern Computational Photography Lab co-advised by Prof. Oliver Cossairt and Prof. Jack Tumblin. He initiated and taught COMP_SCI 396 VR/AR Systems as a course instructor in Northwestern University. (Why does Jipeng care about computational imaging?)
The great research/products in Jipeng's eyes are research/products that help humans become a better species. He envisions a new form of near-eye smart device which expands the bandwidth for humans' perception, information collection, information processing, and decision making. To enable such devices, the key infrastructure is to have perception sensors that surpass human eyes and displays that satisfy human eyes, both in a glass-size compact form factor. These inevitably lead Jipeng to his current research on computational flat nano-optics.
Jipeng also used to work as embodied intelligence research engineer at Research Center for Brain-inspired Intelligence, CASIA (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences) during 2019-2021 advised by Prof. Yi Zeng. He is also the founding director of Sharing Tech Ltd., a 176-people tech organization developing AI-assisted education systems.
News
2025.05.07 Collaborative On-Sensor Array Cameras got accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics and will present at SIGGRAPH 2025
2025.03.13 Beating Spectral Bandwidth Limits for Large Aperture Broadband Nano-optics is now on Nature Communications
2025.03.06 Both COS333 and COS597 I TAed won Outstanding Teaching Awards at Princeton Engineering
2024.05.01 Radar Fields: Frequency-space Neural Scene Representations for FMCW Radar got accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024
2023.09.15 Our CS396 VR/AR Systems course is on the news!
2023.08.05 Thin On-sensor Nanophotonic Array Cameras got accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics and will present at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
2023.04.16 Whole-brain Imaging of Freely-moving Zebrafish got published on Frontier Neuroscience
2023.01.25 In summer 2023, Jipeng Sun opened and taught CS396 VR/AR System in Northwestern University.
2022.05.20 Jipeng Sun won 2022 Peter Barris Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.