Recent News

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!

July 2, 2018

I have recently arrived at Duke University and have begun to setup my lab! My office is CIEMAS 2569 and my lab is in CIEMAS 2584, feel free to stop by and say hi at any time, and/or send me an email if you are interested in joining in on any of the new projects that I have planned!

October 6, 2017

Deep learning algorithms have become a popular way to extract useful information from images (e.g., to classify, segment and track objects).

July 31, 2017

I was recently awarded a nice price from Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU): the SAOT Young Researcher Award, which comes with some prize money and a guest professor appointment. I will spend the beginning of 2018 as a... read more

July 25, 2017

We've been working hard trying to figure out some better ways to scan light around deep within tissue.

March 29, 2017

The Einstein Foundation Berlin just wroteup a short piece about me and my research.

February 20, 2017

We have a new method that can take really fast videos of small micro-organisms that swim around on top of a sensor. It is based on a modified phase retrieval algorithm. You can find the paper here.