I am a transdisciplinary optimist interested in quantifying, exploring, and understanding light and object interactions through a combination of hardware and software, with a focus on computational 3D (or complex wave field, or 2D-time domain) / 4D (space-time domain) optical imaging and display. I achieve this by incorporating computing into acquisition / processing pipelines, either genetically by new hardware and designs, or computationally by advanced algorithms, or both.

To this end, I develop general tools that enable us to solve fundamental issues in optical imaging, span four different yet connected aspects in a progressive strategy: (i) Fundamental theory behind the physical phenomenon; (ii) Forward system modeling that establishes a numerical relationship between the theoretical formulations and optical measurements; (iii) Computational inverse solving of the forward model to estimate object internal states from optical measurements; and (iv) Interdisciplinary applications based on the pipeline.

My goal is to bridge the gap between computing and physical optical systems, aiming to transcend the limitations of both optical systems and computational algorithms.