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Huaijin Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), where he directs the Computational Imaging and Robotic Perception Lab. He joined UHM in August 2024, bringing extensive experience from both industry and academic research in imaging and perception systems.
His research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, computational imaging, and robotics. He specializes in developing physics-aware deep learning models for imaging systems, advancing technologies in 3D ToF imaging, neural image compression, and under-display cameras. His work has practical applications in autonomous vehicles, smartphones, and wearable devices. He is particularly interested in bridging the gap between optical physics and machine learning to enhance perception capabilities.
Huaijin Chen is actively contributing to the academic community through leadership roles such as serving as the local chair for ICCV 2025 in Honolulu and as a guest editor for the ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, focusing on UAVs. He is currently recruiting motivated PhD students with backgrounds in optics or imaging to join his lab in 2025.
Huaijin Chen has co-founded SenseWatch, a startup focused on gesture recognition and vital sign monitoring via wearable devices. His prior industry experience includes leading computational imaging efforts at Vayu Robotics, backed by Khosla Ventures and advised by Geoffrey Hinton, and contributing to smartphone computational photography at SenseBrain Technology.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in 2019, where his work centered on physics-aware deep learning in computational imaging. Earlier, he earned a B.S. in Imaging Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2013. During his studies, he interned at NVIDIA Research, IBM, and Light Labs, and visited research groups at Cornell, Northwestern, and Brown Universities.
