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Manuel Ballester is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University and a member of the 3DIM lab led by Prof. Willomitzer. His research applies novel optimization techniques, advanced computational methods, and machine learning approaches to optics and imaging problems. He works on synthetic wavelength imaging and the improvement of holographic displays. He is also interested in the material characterization of semiconductors (such as CZT and Silicon) to improve sensor performance.
Manuel completed his BSc in Mathematics in 2018 at the University of Cadiz. He received an MSc in Optical Physics in 2021 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. |
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John Bass is a first-year PhD student in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He recieved a bachelor’s degree in
electrical and optical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2022. He has worked repeatedly with Ball Aerospace,
doing Radiometric Analysis and Electrical Systems Engineering for the NEO Surveyor Spacecraft. His current research interests
are centered around computational imaging. |
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Jiwon Choi is an incoming PhD student in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Her research interest includes computational photography with machine learning applied. She is also interested in 3D object rendering and visualization with commodity devices. Her current research is neural rendering and its application to holography images.
Jiwon earned her master’s in Computer Science from Northwestern University in December 2021. Her master’s thesis “Quantitative Analysis of Holography Interpolation With NeRF” was advised by Dr. Oliver Cossairt, Dr. Jack Tumblin, Dr. Florian Willomitzer, and Dr. Marc Walton. She earned her bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. During her undergraduate years, she worked on autonomous robotics projects under Dr. Nils Napp. |
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Patrick Cornwall
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Aniket Dashpute is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering Department at Northwestern University. His current research includes using Event Cameras for 3D shape measurement and applying Computational Imaging techniques to Thermal Imaging & Rendering. He is also interested in Neural Rendering and its applications to computational photography.
Aniket completed his undergrad in EE at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT D), India in 2018 where he was advised by Prof. Kedar Khare. He then worked in Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, India till 2020 in the Computer Graphics team responsible for rendering and visualising medical ultrasound data. |
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Yuanxin Guan |
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James Taylor is a first-year PhD student in the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Economics from Vanderbilt University in 2021. He worked for 4D technology, a subsidiary of Onto Innovation, as part of a team building a dual-wavelength interferometer system to measure rougher surfaces with a higher effective wavelength. His current research interests include optical metrology and computational imaging. |
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Jiazhang Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern, he earned his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His research interests include computational photography, 3D optical metrology and computer vision. He is currently working on developing a novel eye-tracking prototype using optical metrology. |