Gordon Wetzstein

Gordon Wetzstein is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He directs the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and serves as faculty co-director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. Wetzstein’s research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, computational optics, and artificial intelligence, where he develops next-generation imaging, display, and neural rendering systems. His group works on topics such as holographic mixed-reality displays, neural light-field rendering, video generation, differentiable imaging, and compact computational optics for wearables and AR/VR platforms. He is a Fellow of Optica and the recipient of major recognitions including the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, PECASE, the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards. His work blends theory, algorithm design, and hardware advances to create imaging systems with unprecedented capability, influencing applications in healthcare, robotics, entertainment, and scientific visualization.