Xiaowei's paper accepted by Opt. Express
/Xiaowei’s paper entitled “Large depth-of-field 3D shape measurement using an electrically tunable lens“ has been accepted by Optics Express. Congratulations!
Member News
Keynote speaker
/Prof. Zhang gave a keynote at MBL meets Optimess conference held in Antwerp, Belgium. Thanks to the conference organizers’ kind invitation.
Welcome new graduate student
/Welcome Yi-Hong Liao who joined us this Fall as a graduate student!
Jae-Sang won Best Poster Award, Congrats!
/Jae-Sang won the KSEA/KOSEN Best Poster Award by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association! Congrats!
New NSF award
/Our team won a $1M NSF award, thanks to Prof. Ramani’s leadership! The project title is: Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Skill-LeARn: Affordable Augmented Reality Platform for Scaling Up Manufacturing Workforce, Skilling, and Education.
Dr. Zhang becomes an Associate Editor of OLEN
/Dr. Zhang was recently chosen as an Associate of Journal of Optics and Lasers in Engineering (OLEN) starting September 1, 2019. OLEN is one of the top journals whose current Impact Factor is 4.059.
Beiwen's patent was awarded, Congrats!
/Professor Beiwen Li’s patent application on telecentric lens calibration has been awarded by US patent office. The patent application can be found from the following link: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0085860.html
Graduation commencement
/Congratulations to Yatong who was officially awarded Ph.D. degree by Purdue! The future of his career is extremely bright and hope he will take a Giant Leap from here!
Jae-Sang passed his Ph.D. prelim exam, congrats!
/Jae-Sang successfully passed his Ph.D. prelim exam, congratulations! One more step to be a doctor, keep it up!
Orbbec visits
/Jae-Sang, Michael, Xiaowei and I visited Orbbec in Troy Michigan. We very much enjoyed the trip, thanks to the hospitality of Orbbec team!!
Welcome new lab members
/Four new members joined recently: Professor Zhong is a visiting scholar , Xiaowei is a visiting Ph.D. student, Jialei and Saw are undergraduate students. Welcome all!
Full professor promotion
/Dr. Zhang was promoted to full professor, Cheers!
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2019/Q2/faculty-promotions-at-purdue-approved-by-board.html
Yatong passed his Ph.D. defense, Congrats!
/Yatong successfully passed his PhD defense! Congratulations, Dr. An!
Old friends
/Glad to see former students in San Francisco, and very proud that they are doing well. Gong and Ying are at Google; Tyler is at University of Iowa; and Victor is at Magic Leap.
Beatrice and Peter won award
/Beatrice and Peter won the Malott Innovation Award: the 1st Place. Congratulations! Beatrice will start her job in San Diego and Peter will start his job in Phoenix in 2019. Congrats. We will miss them!
$1M NSF grant
/Our team won another $1M NSF grant with Professor Cappelleri. Cheers!
RI: Medium: Light Responsive Polymer Magnetic Microrobots with Dual Mode Sensing for Biomedical and Advanced Manufacturing Applications
Congrats Tyler for being awarded Ph.D. degree
/Tyler was officially awarded his Ph.D. degree today., Congrats! Tyler has moved to Iowa City and will start as a tenure-track assistant professor in two weeks. (Image: Tyler posted with his poster in ME building).
Jae-Sang's AO paper: one of 15 Most Cited Articles
/Jae-Sang's paper was among the top 15 most cited papers published by Applied Optics between 2016-2018. Congrats!
[82] J. -S. Hyun, and S. Zhang, "Enhanced two-frequency phase-shifting method," Appl. Opt., 55(16), 4395-4401, 2016; doi: 10.1364/AO.55.004395
Holostream: 100 Best Science Spinoffs (No. 2 on the list)
/Our Holographic videophone (i.e., Holostream) was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs and has entered 2 % out of 5,000 global science spinoffs according to the following criteria: uniqueness of the technology/product, high commercial potential and positive impact to the humanity’s well-being.
You can download the digital version of the Top 100 Science Spinoffs PDF Report with your technology on the page 185.
Invited talks/visits
/From June 28-July 14, Professor Zhang delivered keynote speech: ICEM (International Conference on Experimental Mechanics) in Brussels, Belgium, as well as 3 invited talks: University of Huddersfield (UK); IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Auckland, New Zealand; University of Auckland (New Zealand)
He also visited 5 universities to discuss collaborations: University of Huddersfield (UK); Liverpool John Moores University (UK); University of Antwerpen (Belgium); University of Wollongong (Australia); University of Auckland (New Zealand)
