Tao Jin

I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Anthony Rowe in WiseLab. My research designs Mixed / eXtended Reality (MR/XR) systems that combine sensing, localization, and edge computing to make 3D telepresence accessible.

This summer, I am interning with the Display Systems Research team at Meta Reality Labs. Previously, I interned with the Spatial Computing and XR team at NVIDIA (2025 – 2026) and the Split Compute team at Magic Leap (2022).

I obtained my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, where I worked on assistive robotics with Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa in the Personal Robotics Lab.

Publications

Implicit Surface Compression — with Good Old Discrete Cosine Transform and Motion Compensation Tao Jin, Shengxi Wu, Tianshu Huang, Mallesham Dasari, Srinivasan Seshan, Anthony Rowe
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2026
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IEEE VR

SceneHub4D: A Dataset and Evaluation Framework for 6-DoF 4D VR Scenes Jaehong Kim, Tao Jin, Mallesham Dasari, Srinivasan Seshan, Anthony Rowe
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VR), 2026
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CoNEXT

LiVo: Toward Bandwidth-adaptive Fully-Immersive Volumetric Video Conferencing Rajrup Ghosh, Christina Suyong Shin, Lei Zhang, Muyang Ye, Tao Jin, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Ravi Netravali, Antonio Ortega, Sanjay Rao, Anthony Rowe, Ramesh Govindan
Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (CoNEXT), 2025
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OpenFLAME: Federated Visual Positioning System to Enable Large-Scale Augmented Reality Applications Sagar Bharadwaj, Harrison Williams, Luke Wang, Michael Liang, Tao Jin, Srinivasan Seshan, Anthony Rowe
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE ISMAR), 2025
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DART: Implicit Doppler Tomography for Radar Novel View Synthesis Tianshu Huang*, John Miller*, Akarsh Prabhakara, Tao Jin, Tarana Laroia, Zico Kolter, Anthony Rowe
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
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MeshReduce: Scalable and Bandwidth Efficient 3D Scene Capture Tao Jin, Mallesham Dasari, Connor Smith, Kittipat Apicharttrisorn, Srinivasan Seshan, Anthony Rowe
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), 2024
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StageAR: Markerless Mobile Phone Localization for AR in Live Events Tao Jin, Shengxi Wu, Mallesham Dasari, Kittipat Apicharttrisorn, Anthony Rowe
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), 2024
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High Resolution Point Clouds from mmWave Radar Akarsh Prabhakara, Tao Jin, Arnav Das, Gantavya Bhatt, Lilly Kumari, Elahe Soltanaghai, Jeff Bilmes, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA), 2023
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Demos

IEEE VRW

MeshReduce: Split Rendering of Live 3D Scene for Virtual Teleportation Tao Jin, Edward Lu, Mallesham Dasari, Kittipat Apicharttrisorn, Srinivasan Seshan, Anthony Rowe
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (IEEE VRW), 2024
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ACM MobiCom

RadarHD: Demonstrating Lidar-like Point Clouds from mmWave Radar Akarsh Prabhakara, Tao Jin, Arnav Das, Gantavya Bhatt, Lilly Kumari, Elahe Soltanaghai, Jeff Bilmes, Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), 2023
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ACM SenSys

Live 3D Scene Capture for Virtual Teleportation Tao Jin, Mallesham Dasari, Connor Smith, Kittipat Apicharttrisorn, Anthony Rowe, Srinivasan Seshan
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys), 2022
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Teaching

Carnegie Mellon University

18-453: Introduction to XR Systems — Fall 2023, Fall 2025
18-449/649: Distributed Embedded Systems — Spring 2022
18-500: ECE Design Experience — Spring 2021, Fall 2021

University of Washington

EE/CSE 474: Introduction to Embedded Systems — Summer 2019 – Spring 2020

Reviewing

IEEE VR — 2025 – 2026
IEEE ISMAR — 2024 – 2026
ACM MM — 2025 – 2026
ACM CHI — 2025
IEEE Transactions on Computers — 2024