Ph.D. candidate Computational Imaging KAUST
I’m a final-year Ph.D. candidate at KAUST, advised by Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich. My research combines end-to-end optics design with deep reconstruction algorithms, bringing optical elements into the computational loop. I work on minimalist cameras, deep learning for optical design, optics-aware computational photography, and computer vision. In 2025, I was a Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Labs.
I’m on the job market and available to start in early 2027.
Research Scientist Intern, Computational ImagingJun 2025 – Nov 2025
Meta Reality Labs (Surreal team) · Redmond, WA
Researched next-generation cameras for contextual AI on always-on devices. Mentor: Michael Goesele.
M.Sc./Ph.D. Researcher, Computational Imaging Group2021 – present
KAUST · Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Real-time gaze tracking without a camera: a microlens array and a co-designed binary mask optically encode the eye onto a 4×4 phototransistor array, and a lightweight network reaches 3.4 ms end-to-end latency.
A camera that captures directly into the latent space of a generative model, compressing by 1:100 to 1:1000 during capture while still supporting downstream face analysis, demonstrated on real hardware.
A comprehensive analysis of atypical overfitting in state-of-the-art data-driven hyperspectral reconstruction, showing that optical aberrations, when modeled correctly, provide useful encoding power.
A differentiable model that combines ray tracing with wave propagation for end-to-end design of hybrid refractive–diffractive lenses, validated with fabricated prototypes for aberration correction and extended depth of field.
One neural ISP that reproduces the color rendition of multiple smartphones (Pixel, Samsung, iPhone) by exploiting global scene semantics and capture metadata, trained on new synthetic and real-world RAW–RGB datasets.
Ph.D. in Computer Science2022 – present
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · expected early 2027
M.Sc. in Computer Science2021 – 2022
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Thesis: Color Aware Neural ISP
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering2015 – 2020
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil · Highest honors, Best Student Medal