I lead the Computational Photography Lab as an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. We specialize in physically-based inverse rendering of photographs to bring the expressiveness of computer graphics tools to computational photography and image editing applications. We work in our computational photography studio, conducting research in an active production environment. You can learn more about our work in our Media, Research, and Papers pages.

Our independent research is funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Foundation of Innovation, and the British Columbia government, as well as Adobe Research and Meta Reality Labs through generous gifts. We are a part of the rich visual computing environment at SFU CS that ranks as 6th in North America and 1st in Canada on CS Rankings (2026-09).

I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich under supervision of Marc Pollefeys in 2019. During my PhD, I spent a year at MIT CSAIL with Wojciech Matusik and 3 years at Disney Research Zurich. I received my BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University under supervision of Aydın Alatan. I served on the Technical Papers Committees of SIGGRAPH in 2021 & 2025 and of Pacific Graphics in 2020, 2021 & 2024; as Area Chair for ICCV in 2023, for ECCV in 2024, and for AAAI in 2020 & 2025; as Registration Chair for ECCV in 2014; and on the Jury for SIGGRAPH Posters in 2022.

Recent news:

2026-09	Our upcoming SIGGRAPH Asia paper on Recurrent Dynamic Range Extension is online.
2026-09	I am now an Associate Professor.
2026-05	Chris Careaga and Sebastian Dille successfully defended their theses and became the first PhD graduates of CPLab!
2025-08	See our relighting work on PetaPixel and Two Minute Papers.
2025-06	Our upcoming SIGGRAPH 2025 paper on Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs is online.
2024-12	We received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 for our paper Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild. Big congrats to Chris Careaga as the sole lead author of this work.