Weiyun Jiang

I'm a PhD student at Rice University, where I work on imaging through turbulence. My PhD advisor is Ashok Veeraraghavan. I also collaborate closely with Chris Metzler. During the summer of 2024, I worked as a research intern at the Mobile Processor Innovation Lab at Samsung Research America.

I hold an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where I worked in Gordon Wetzstein's lab. I have a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, where I worked in Zheng Zhang's lab.

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News

[Mar 9, 2026] Our paper Guidestar-Free Adaptive Optics with Asymmetric Apertures has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics! We will present at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.

Research

I'm interested in computational imaging, imaging through turbulence, and machine learning. Some papers are highlighted.

Guidestar-Free Adaptive Optics with Asymmetric Apertures
Weiyun Jiang*, Haiyun Guo*, Christopher A. Metzler, Ashok Veeraraghavan
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2026. To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2026.
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The first closed-loop adaptive optics system capable of real-time optical correction without the need for a guidestar or a specialized wavefront sensor.

Temporally Consistent Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation with Neural Representations
Haoming Cai*, Jingxi Chen*, Brandon Y. Feng, Weiyun Jiang, Mingyang Xie, Kevin Zhang, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Christopher A. Metzler
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
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Restores temporally coherent sharp videos from videos degraded by atmospheric turbulence.

NeRT: Implicit Neural Representations for General Unsupervised Turbulence Mitigation
Weiyun Jiang, Yuhao Liu, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2023
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Unsupervised turbulence mitigation using a physically-correct tilt-then-blur atmospheric turbulence forward model.


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