Sai Tedla
Incoming Schmidt AI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
PhD, York University
Ex Intern, Sony AI, Samsung AI Center-Toronto, Adobe
I’m a curious researcher in computational photography. My current work focuses on generative camera editing and camera pipelines. Previously, I have worked on auto-exposure, image restoration, and color correction.
I am an incoming Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto with Kyros Kutulakos and David Lindell, with whom I was a visiting student for the past two years. I completed my PhD and MSc at York University, supervised by Michael Brown. I previously was an undergraduate research student under Terrance Boult.
I most recently interned at Sony AI Japan with Daisuke Iso and Feiran Li. I have also interned at Samsung AI Center Toronto twice, mentored by Michael Brown, Mahmoud Afifi, Junyong Lee, and Abhijith Punnappurath. Previously, I interned at Adobe on Marc Levoy’s NextCam team, mentored by Shumian Xin, Zhoutong Zhang, and Cecilia Zhang.
“For as long as I take care of my people, they will care for me as well.”
news
- Aug 2026 Our paper Off the Planckian Locus: Using 2D Chromaticity to Improve In-Camera Color was accepted to ECCV 2026 as a Spotlight Oral!
- Aug 2026 Successfully defended my PhD at York University!
- Jul 2026 Accepted to the ECCV 2026 Doctoral Consortium.
- Jul 2026 My research was featured by the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University.
- May 2026 I presented my work on Generative Re-Photography with Video Models over the last few months across the US! Thank you to my hosts — Steve Seitz (University of Washington), Ioannis Gkioulekas (CMU VASC), Felix Heide (Princeton PIXL), Noah Snavely (Cornell Tech), Vincent Sitzmann (MIT CSAIL), Todd Zickler (Harvard), Ramesh Raskar (MIT Media Lab), Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford), and Laura Waller (UC Berkeley).
- Dec 2025 Awarded the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto (Schmidt Sciences).
featured talks
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Princeton PIXL Seminar · Apr 2026Generative Rephotography with Video Models
selected publications
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ECCV, 2026 (Spotlight Oral) -
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ACM ToG (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2025 -
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