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!
Member News
$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)
Tyler passed his Ph.D. defense
/Congrats on Tyler passing his Ph.D. defense! Mr. Tyler Bell will become Dr. Tyler Bell & Professor Tyler Bell, he will be an assistant professor at University of Iowa starting August, 2018. Tyler is our star!
Chufan is on 🔥fire.🔥
/Check Purdue ME twitter
https://twitter.com/PurdueME/status/1004323419964563456
and Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/PurdueME/posts/1900916559930260
Three invited talks
/Professor Zhang delivered three invited talks recently. The first one was given at icOPEN in Shanghai on May 9, the second one was at Shanghai University on May 10, and the third one was given at United Imaging Healthcare on May 11. We thank the conference organizer and the hosts for their hospitality and arrangements.
Ziping' paper on Opt. Express Cover
/Ziping's paper was selected on the cover of Optics Express, Congrats!
Z. Liu, P. Zibley and S. Zhang, "Motion-induced error compensation for phase shifting profilometry," Opt. Express, 26(10), 12632-12637 (2018); doi:10.1364/OE.26.012632
Chufan Won SPIE Scholarship
/Chufan Won the SPIE Optical Design and Engineering Scholarship, a prestigious honor given by SPIE. Congratulations!
Tyler received Assistant Professor offer
/Tyler who has received a tenure-track assistant professor offer from University of Iowa. Congratulations!
Tyler is the third students graduated from our lab who become professor in esteemed research universities. (Yajun Wang is an associate professor at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; and Beiwen Li is an assistant professor at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)
SPIE conference presentations
/Ziping made his first conference presentation, Prof. Zhang chaired the conference, delivered an invited talk and a regular oral presentation at SPIE DCS in Orlando, Flordia. Ziping and Prof. Zhang went to Kennedy Space Center and saw the SpaceX launch on April 18, 2018.
Invited talk
/Prof. Zhang delivered an invited talk the Workshop on Geometry, Imaging and Computing, held at the Center of Mathematics Sciences and Applications, Harvard University. Thanks Prof. S.-T. Yau for his kind invitation and the conference organizers for their hospitality.
Holostream made the final of Mira award
/Holostream was one of the finalists in the category of the Innovation of the Year award. http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q1/seven-purdue-startups,-one-startup-program-and-two-faculty-entrepreneurs-named-finalists-of-the-2018-techpoints-mira-awards.html
Keynote speech
/Prof. Zhang delivered a keynote speech at the Optical Made in China(中国光学智制2025), Shanghai. Thank the organizers for the kind invitation and hospitality.
Mira award nominee
/"Holostream" was selected as one of the nominees for the category of Innovation of the Year Award. TechPoint Mira Awards honor "The Best of Tech in Indiana".
Top download of Opt. Express
/Jae-Sang's paper was on the list top most downloaded papers published by Optics Express.
Streaming 3D faces data
/Another nice article about our Holostream research https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/streaming-3d-faces-data-research/
