Recent News

April 12, 2021

The Computational Optics Lab is happy to announce that it will be funded by Hartwell Foundation's Individual Biomedical Research Award - Thank you to all of the researchers and clinicians who have helped... read more

March 18, 2021

This generous award from 3M will be used to continue our development of new computational and intelligent microscopes that can allow us to "see more" at high resolution!

February 17, 2021

We have developed a new technique to detect blood flow and measure other small variations deep within tissue:

January 25, 2021

Please read more about Duke's efforts to improve pathology, including our work on a smart microscope for automated pathology, in the following articles:

October 6, 2020

Congratulations to Kanghyun, Pavi and Colin and our collaborator Ron Appel on completing a nice new paper in Optics Letters!

September 15, 2020

This new grant will fund our research efforts surrounding a portable "intelligent" microscope for rapid blood smear analysis. We'll be working closely with the Duke hospital over the next year to hopefully get some nice data in what should be an exciting project!

July 21, 2020

Shiqi was recently awarded a Theo Pilkington Fellowship for the upcoming year for his outstanding work as a PhD student - great job!!

July 12, 2020

Hot off the press - the Computational Optics Lab recently published two new papers that we're excited about:

June 6, 2020

Our recent book chapter about wavefront engineering for imaging deep within the brain is now available... read more

May 4, 2020

I'd like to congratulate Colin on receiving a fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which will offer him some generous support for his research in our lab. Great job!

April 18, 2020

Kevin's really interesting work, on improving the quality of 3D image reconstruction using a completely untrained deep learning network, is now published. Great job Kevin!

March 24, 2020

Kanghyun Kim, a new PhD student in the lab, recently was awarded the prestigious John T. Chambers Fellowship from the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP) at Duke University - great job with all of your hard work!

March 20, 2020

We've just finished a comrehensive review paper on Fourier ptychography:
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-28-7-9603

February 17, 2020

During a very fun and interesting collaboration with Dr. Lars Loetgoring from the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, we helped suggest some new ways to create and characterize X-ray beams that rotate as they propagate.

December 24, 2019

Kevin's new paper is on using a "deep image prior" to improve the quality of 3D diffraction tomography reconstructions:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05330.pdf

November 24, 2019

Congrats to everyone involved in our latest publication:

October 27, 2019

SafineAI, a new start-up based on technology developed by the Computational Optics Lab, has been awarded the Microsoft Start-up Prize at Duke University.

October 1, 2019

The Horstmeyer Lab is beginning work on two new grants!

1. A Duke Coulter Foundation award, aimed at creating a better microscope for rapid imaging cytopathology slides.

September 5, 2019

The school year has now begun and Dr.

August 1, 2019

A number of students have been busy in the lab this summer, making some great progress on their experiments. Here's a few highlights from what we've accomplished:

1. We have put the finishing touches on our lab's first official paper! Hopefully there will be many more to come. 

July 1, 2019

I'll try to post monthly updates from here on out. Here's what the Computational Optics Lab has been up to this June:

January 13, 2019

We are happy to welcome Pavan Konda to our group. Pavan recieved his PhD and performed a short post-doc at the University of Glasgow, where he worked on a number of different optical experiments, including Fourier ptychography and miniaturized microscopes

November 14, 2018

Eric has been and will continue to work on a project titled, "Micro-camera design for neural imaging"

November 6, 2018

Wenhui Liu is a new visiting PhD student from Tsinghua, who will be working on problems related to parallelized detection of scattered light.

September 14, 2018

We've got some optics tables in here and are working to fill this lab space with fun equipment. Stop by CIEMAS 2584A if you'd like to come check out what we're working on!