Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Srinivasa G. Narasimhan is the U. A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, renowned for foundational contributions to computer vision and computational imaging. His research explores how light interacts with complex environments—such as haze, fog, rain, snow, scattering media, indirect surfaces, and outdoor illumination—and how these physical phenomena can be modeled to enhance perception in challenging real-world conditions. Narasimhan’s work spans atmospheric vision, structured light in scattering environments, non-line-of-sight shape reconstruction, global illumination analysis, and multimodal outdoor sensing. Many of his publications, including seminal studies on weather-robust vision and polarization-based dehazing, have become landmark papers in the field and heavily influence modern autonomous driving, graphics, and imaging systems. His group collaborates widely across robotics, computer vision, and physics, bridging theoretical modeling with deployable sensing technologies. He is also deeply involved in developing new computational imaging systems for environmental monitoring and advanced perception.