900 University Ave
Riverside, CA 92521

Email: "vishwanath dot saragadam at ucr dot edu"

I am a tenure track assistant professor in the ECE department at the University of California Riverside.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the area of computational imaging where I co-design optical systems and algorithms to sense, represent, and infer from high dimensional visual signals such as videos, hyperspectral images, and lightfields. My research encompasses a broad set of disciplines including optics, meta-materials, algorithms, machine learning, and signal processing.

You can find more about my research here

Previous experience and education

I worked with Prof. Richard Baraniuk and Prof. Ashok Veeraraghavan from 2020 - 2023, where I was a Rice Future Faculty Fellow from 2020 to 2021, and a recipient of the outstanding postdoctoral researcher award in 2022.

I did my doctoral research with Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan from Carnegie Mellon University. My thesis was on Spectrally-programmable cameras for imaging and inference. I was a recipient of the outstanding teaching assistant in the ECE department in 2018, the Prabhu and Poonam Goel graduate fellowship award in 2019, and the A. G. Jordan award for outstanding thesis in the ECE departmant in 2020. My thesis was also a finalist for the ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 thesis fast forward.

Prior to CMU, I was an undergraduate in the EE department at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. I worked with Prof. A N Rajagopalan on several image enhancement algorithms on mobile device. I graduated in 2014 with Honors and a minor in Operations Research.

Latest updates

01/2023: I will be starting at UC Riverside.

04/2022: I will be receiving the Outstanding postdoctoral researcher in the School of Engineering at Rice University.

03/2022: Two papers include WIRE accepted to CVPR 2023.

01/2022: Our paper on WIRE: Wavelet Implicit Neural Representations is now online. Check the project website here.

08/2022: Our paper on PS2F: Polarized Spiral Point Spread Function for Single-Shot 3D Sensing won the best paper award at ICCP 2022. Check out the paper here

06/2022: Our paper on MINER: Multiscale Implicit Neural Representations got accepted to ECCV 2022. Check the project website here.

05/2022: I will be receiving the A. G. Jordan outstanding thesis award at the CMU ECE commencement program