Tao Jin

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. Anthony Rowe in WiseLab. My current research interest is in designing Mixed / eXtended Reality (MR/XR) systems that combine sensing, localization, and edge computing to make 3D telepresence accessible. You can find my CV here.

Previousely, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle (UW). During my time at UW, I worked on Assistive Robots with Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa in the Personal Robotics Lab. I interned in the Split Compute Team at Magic Leap in 2022, and in the Spatial Computing and XR Team at NVIDIA in 2025.

Publications

Toward Bandwidth-adaptive Fully-Immersive Volumetric Video Conferencing

Rajrup Ghosh , Christina Shin , Lei Zhang , Muyang Ye , Tao Jin, Harsha Madhyastha , Ravi Netravali , Antonio Ortega , Sanjay Rao , Anthony Rowe , and Ramesh Govindan

In Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) , 2025

BibTex

@inproceedings{livo,
  title = {Toward Bandwidth-adaptive Fully-Immersive Volumetric Video Conferencing},
  author = {Ghosh, Rajrup and Shin, Christina and Zhang, Lei and Ye, Muyang and Jin, Tao and Madhyastha, Harsha and Netravali, Ravi and Ortega, Antonio and Rao, Sanjay and Rowe, Anthony and Govindan, Ramesh},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)},
  year = {2025},
}

OpenFLAME: Federated Visual Positioning System to Enable Large-Scale AR

Sagar Bharadwaj , Harrison Williams , Luke Wang , Michael Liang , Tao Jin, Srinivasan Seshan , and Anthony Rowe

In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) , 2025

Paper Video BibTex

@inproceedings{openflame,
  title = {OpenFLAME: Federated Visual Positioning System to Enable Large-Scale AR},
  author = {Bharadwaj, Sagar and Williams, Harrison and Wang, Luke and Liang, Michael and Jin, Tao and Seshan, Srinivasan and Rowe, Anthony},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)},
  year = {2025},
}

DART: Implicit Doppler Tomography for Radar Novel View Synthesis

Tianshu Huang* , John Miller* , Akarsh Prabhakara , Tao Jin, Tarana Laroia , Zico Kolter , and Anthony Rowe

In The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024

Paper Video Website BibTex

@inproceedings{dart,
  title = {DART: Implicit Doppler Tomography for Radar Novel View Synthesis},
  author = {Huang*, Tianshu and Miller*, John and Prabhakara, Akarsh and Jin, Tao and Laroia, Tarana and Kolter, Zico and Rowe, Anthony},
  booktitle = {The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2024},
}

MeshReduce: Scalable and Bandwidth Efficient 3D Scene Capture

Tao Jin, Mallesham Dasari , Connor Smith , Kittipat Apicharttrisorn , Srinivasan Seshan , and Anthony Rowe

In 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) , 2024

Paper Short Vid Video BibTex

@inproceedings{meshreduce,
  title = {MeshReduce: Scalable and Bandwidth Efficient 3D Scene Capture},
  author = {Jin, Tao and Dasari, Mallesham and Smith, Connor and Apicharttrisorn, Kittipat and Seshan, Srinivasan and Rowe, Anthony},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  pages = {20--30},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IEEE Computer Society},
  video_short = {https://www.youtube.com/embed/IfPKjP4ZYmY?si=N2BpCG9tli1eQfht},
}

StageAR: Markerless Mobile Phone Localization for AR in Live Events

Tao Jin, Shengxi Wu , Mallesham Dasari , Kittipat Apicharttrisorn , and Anthony Rowe

In 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) , 2024

Paper Video BibTex

@inproceedings{stagear,
  title = {StageAR: Markerless Mobile Phone Localization for AR in Live Events},
  author = {Jin, Tao and Wu, Shengxi and Dasari, Mallesham and Apicharttrisorn, Kittipat and Rowe, Anthony},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  pages = {1000--1010},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IEEE Computer Society},
}

High resolution point clouds from mmWave radar

Akarsh Prabhakara , Tao Jin, Arnav Das , Gantavya Bhatt , Lilly Kumari , Elahe Soltanaghai , Jeff Bilmes , Swarun Kumar , and Anthony Rowe

In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2023

Paper Video Code Poster Slides BibTex

@inproceedings{prabhakara2023high,
  title = {High resolution point clouds from mmWave radar},
  author = {Prabhakara, Akarsh and Jin, Tao and Das, Arnav and Bhatt, Gantavya and Kumari, Lilly and Soltanaghai, Elahe and Bilmes, Jeff and Kumar, Swarun and Rowe, Anthony},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {4135--4142},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

Demos

VRW

MeshReduce: Split Rendering of Live 3D Scene for Virtual Teleportation

Tao Jin, Edward Lu , Mallesham Dasari , Kittipat Apicharttrisorn , Srinivasan Seshan , and Rowe Anthony

In 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) , 2024

Paper Video BibTex

@inproceedings{meshreduce_demo,
  title = {MeshReduce: Split Rendering of Live 3D Scene for Virtual Teleportation},
  author = {Jin, Tao and Lu, Edward and Dasari, Mallesham and Apicharttrisorn, Kittipat and Seshan, Srinivasan and Anthony, Rowe},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

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 , and Anthony Rowe

In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking , 2023

Paper BibTex

@inproceedings{prabhakara2023radarhd,
  title = {RadarHD: Demonstrating Lidar-like Point Clouds from mmWave Radar},
  author = {Prabhakara, Akarsh and Jin, Tao and Das, Arnav and Bhatt, Gantavya and Kumari, Lilly and Soltanaghai, Elahe and Bilmes, Jeff and Kumar, Swarun and Rowe, Anthony},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
  pages = {1--3},
  year = {2023},
}

Sensys

Live 3D Scene Capture for Virtual Teleportation

Tao Jin, Mallesham Dasari , Connor Smith , Kittipat Apicharttrisorn , Anthony Rowe , and Srinivasan Seshan

In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems , 2022

Paper BibTex

@inproceedings{jin2022live,
  title = {Live 3D Scene Capture for Virtual Teleportation},
  author = {Jin, Tao and Dasari, Mallesham and Smith, Connor and Apicharttrisorn, Kittipat and Rowe, Anthony and Seshan, Srinivasan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems},
  pages = {774--775},
  year = {2022},
}

Teaching

Teaching Assistant at 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, Fall 2021, Spring 2021

Teaching Assistant at University of Washington

EE/CSE 474: Introduction to Embedded Systems, Summer 2019 - Spring 2020

Academic Services

Conference Review

ACM MM, 2025
ACM CHI, 2025
IEEE VR, 2025
IEEE ISMAR, 2024

Journal Review

IEEE Trsanctions on Computers, 2024