Huaijin (George) Chen

I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa, where I direct the Computational Imaging and Robotic Perception Lab.

From 2022 to 2024, I was the founding Computational Imaging Lead at Vayu Robotics, focusing on enhancing autonomous vehicle perception through innovative imaging techniques. Vayu is backed by Khosla Ventures, and advised by globally renowned AI scientist Geoffrey Hinton.

From 2019 to 2022, I was with SenseBrain Technology, where I contributed to computational photography on smartphones. My team made strides in areas like novel image sensor, under-display camera tech, 3D ToF imaging, and neural image compression.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in 2019, where I explored physics-aware deep learning in computational imaging, and obtained my B.S. from RIT in Imaging Science in 2013.