Todd Zickler

Todd Zickler is the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). His research focuses on modeling light-material interactions and developing computational techniques for visual data interpretation, with applications in autonomy, augmented reality, and computational imaging. He leads the Harvard Computer Vision Laboratory and is part of the Graphics, Vision, and Interaction Group.

Education:

• B.Eng. (Honours Electrical Engineering), McGill University, 1996
• Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Yale University, 2004

Research Interests:

• Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning
• Optical and Computational Imaging, Human Perception
• Applications in Robotics, AR, and Autonomous Systems

Key Contributions:

• Developed novel depth sensors inspired by jumping spiders
• Advanced shape-from-texture and shading techniques
• Contributed to neural radiance fields (NeRF) and boundary detection algorithms

Awards:

• NSF Career Award
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Grants & Labs:

• Director of Harvard Computer Vision Lab
• Recipient of NSF AI Institute funding ($20M) for physics-driven AI research