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. I work broadly across computer vision, graphics, and networking, building high-performance, end-to-end GPU systems for Mixed / eXtended Reality (MR/XR). My work spans sensing and reconstruction, localization and tracking (SLAM), video and 3D compression, and edge computing.

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

* indicates equal contribution. Underlined name marks me as an author.

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  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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• 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 · Demo

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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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• 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 · Demo

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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 · Demo

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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