Joel Julin

I'm a Ph.D. student in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by László Jeni. My research focuses on 3D vision, with the goal of making virtual scenes visually indistinguishable from reality.

I hold a Master’s in Robotics (MSR) from CMU and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). While at Pitt, I conducted research with the Ci2CV Computer Vision Lab at CMU's Robotics Institute under Simon Lucey (now Director of the Australian Institute of Machine Learning), and I also worked with Dr. Jeni’s Computational Behavior Lab through the Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) Program, supported by an NSF Research Experience Grant.

News

Aug. 2025: I started my Ph.D. in Robotics at CMU!
July. 2025: I completed my Master's in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (view thesis here)!
Apr. 2025: Paper on Rethinking the Role of Spatial Mixing is accepted to eLVM workshop at CVPR '25.
Feb. 2025: I accepted an offer from Carnegie Mellon for their Ph.D in Robotics program, looking forward to continuing this Fall.
Jan. 2025: Work on analytical flow supervision for 3DGS (GSLK) accepted to ICLR '25.
Feb. 2024: Work on Controllable Gaussian Splatting ( CoGS) accepted to CVPR '24.
Mar. 2023: I accepted an offer from Carnegie Mellon for their M.S. in Robotics program.
Feb. 2023: Work on dynamic light field networks (DyLiN) has been accepted to CVPR '23.
Dec. 2022: Accepted a full-time position at CMU to continue working with Dr. Jeni's lab during the spring.
Dec. 2022: I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh!
Nov. 2022: Won gold medal at the 8th China International College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
Oct. 2022: I attended my first hackathon at MIT, where I worked on this project.
May 2022: Accepted to Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute Summer Scholar program (see project here).
May 2021: Began working with Dr. Lucey's computer vision lab (see research here).