I am a transdisciplinary researcher. I work on exploring, quantifying, understanding, and manipulating light with both hardware and software. My research is on computational optical imaging and display in 3D (complex wave fields and volumetric scenes) and 4D (space-time).

To do this, I build computation into how images are acquired and processed, and I design the hardware and the algorithms together. My work follows four stages:

  • Theory: the physics behind the imaging process
  • Numerical modeling: forward models that link optical physics to the measured data
  • Inverse computation: inverting the forward model to recover the internal state of the object
  • Applications: bringing these methods to other fields, each with its own constraints

My main goal is to close the gaps between the parts of a computational imaging system, so that hardware and algorithms can really be designed together. This includes:

  • Differentiable Imaging: uncertainty-aware, jointly optimized optical imaging systems
  • Imaging modalities: extending the physical and computational limits of holography, light field imaging, coherent diffraction imaging, ptychography and microscopy for reliable 3D and 4D imaging

In the end, I want imaging to show and measure things that we could not see before.