Ni Chen

Honorary Associate Professor

Chow Yei Ching Building, Room 513

Education

• Ph.D., OEQE Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee.
• M.E., OIP Lab, Computer and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Advisors: Prof. Nam Kim and Prof. Jae-Hyeung Park.
• B.E., Computer Software Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai).

Publications

1. Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, "Differentiable Imaging," In Light Conference 2026 , Changchun, China, jun. 2026. upcoming
2. Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, "Uncertainty-Aware Computational Imaging," In 31st OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), Busan, Korea, jun. 2026. upcoming
3. Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, "Embracing uncertainties in computational imaging," In SPIE Photonics Asia Conference 13719: Holography, Diffractive Optics, and Applications XV, Beijing, China, oct. 2025.
4. David J. Brady, Ni Chen, "Ptychographic Wavefront Cameras," In SPIE Photonics Asia Conference 13719: Holography, Diffractive Optics, and Applications XV, Beijing, China, oct. 2025. Invited Talk
5. Chutian Wang, Shuo Zhu, Jingqian Wu, Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, "Differentiable Event-based Holography," In Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI), Seattle, USA, aug. 2025.
6. Ni Chen^†*, Yang Wu^†, Chao Tan, Liangcai Cao, Jun Wang, Edmund Y. Lam*, "Uncertainty-Aware Fourier Ptychography," Light: Science & Applications 14 (236) jul., 2025.
7. Ni Chen*, David J. Brady, Edmund Y. Lam, "Differentiable Imaging: Progress, Challenges, and Outlook," Advanced Devices & Instrumentation 7 (0117) : 34, jul., 2025.
8. Hong-Chao Liu, Wen Chen, Ni Chen, Shuyuan Xiao, "Computational imaging and its applications," Journal of Optics 27 (6) : 060201, may., 2025. Guest Editor of Journal of Optics focus issue on Computational imaging and its applications
9. Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, "Differentiable pixel-super-resolution lensless imaging," Optics Letters 50 (5) : 1180–1183, jan., 2025.
10. Jiabao Wang, Yang Wu, Jun Wang, Ni Chen*, "Align-free multi-plane phase retrieval," Optics and Laser Technology 181 (2025) : 111784, jan., 2025.
11. Ni Chen, Yanmin Zhu, "Differentiable Imaging: Bridging Physics and Computing," In SPIE Photonics West Conference 13375: AI and Optical Data Sciences VI, San Francisco, USA, jan. 2025.
12. Ju Tang, Zhenbo Ren, Kaiqing Wang, Jiazhen Dou, Jianglei Di, Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, Jianlin Zhao, "Few-shot reference-guided learning for image deconvolution of optical microscopy," 2025.
13. Xiao Li, Zhenbo Ren, Ping Su, Ni Chen, Edmund Y. Lam, Ju Tang, Jianglei Di, Jianlin Zhao, "Snapshot Virtual Refocusing and Three-Dimensional Reconstruction for Microscopy with Sequential Learning," 2025.