Kaan Akşit
Associate Professor Of Computational Light
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKaan Akşit is an Associate Professor of Computational Light at UCL and founder of the Computational Light Laboratory, with 14 years of research and industry experience at the intersection of optics and computation. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has translated deep academic expertise into applied breakthroughs in computational displays, holography, VR/AR and autostereoscopic systems, earning multiple best-paper and Emerging Technologies awards at SIGGRAPH, IEEE VR and ISMAR. Previously he was NVIDIA’s senior research scientist in the New Experiences Group, where he helped stand up labs and recruit teams to commercialize novel near-eye and multi-view display technologies. His work blends optics, electronics and AI-driven computational methods, and spans both hands-on hardware development and software for real-world products. Less obvious: he has a track record of cross-disciplinary projects from medical-device prototyping during his PhD to visible light communication apps at Disney Research, showing an appetite for turning foundational research into diverse practical systems.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Electrical Power Engineering, M.Sc., Electrical Power Engineering at RWTH Aachen UniversityPh.D., Auto-stereoscopic displays, Optics, Electronics, Ph.D., Auto-stereoscopic displays, Optics, Electronics at Koç UniversityB.s., Electrical engineering, B.s., Electrical engineering at Istanbul Technical UniversityLycee, Science High Lycee, Lycee, Science High Lycee at Üsküdar fen lisesi
German, English, Turkish
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Github Skills (187)
python10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
cpp10
scientific-computing10
cluster-computing10
numpy10
text-generation10
raytracing10
rtd10
perception10
moonlight10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
jekyll10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
complight/complight.github.io
Oct 2021 - Jul 2026
:spider_web: This repository contains the source for the website of the Computational light laboratory at University College London.
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 693 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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solcer/pi3b
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:143 commits in 5 months
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