Srinivasa Narasimhan is an Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2000 and 2004. His group focuses on novel techniques for imaging, illumination and light transport to enable applications in vision, graphics, robotics and medical imaging. His works have received several awards: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (IEEE ICCP 2012), Best Paper Award (IEEE PROCAMS 2009), the Okawa Research Grant (2009), the NSF CAREER Award (2007), Adobe Best Paper Award (IEEE Workshop on Physics based methods in computer vision, ICCV 2007) and IEEE Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (CVPR 2000). His research has been covered in popular press including NY Times, PC magazine and IEEE Spectrum. He co-chaired the International Symposium on Volumetric Scattering in Vision and Graphics in 2007, the IEEE Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS) in 2010, and the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) in 2011, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision.