Our group is broadly interested in leveraging computational optics, optical system design, and machine learning/AI to improve optical microscopy, sensing, and information processing. Our overarching goal is to develop and build novel optical tools to advance discovery in fundamental science and impact real-world applications, particularly in biology and medicine. We are located in beautiful Irvine, California.
We are interested in both the fundamental aspects of designing optical systems for improved performance and developing new computational methods to derive biomedical and physical insights, as well as translating these advances into practice. We are pursuing our research directions by exploring the following three major topics.
Research Topics
Designing and building smarter optical system for improved optical microscopy, sensing and information processing.
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to design better computational tools for optics.
Tailoring our system for fundamental and real-world biomedical applications, such as understanding our brain and its diseases.
News:
7/1/2025: We officially opened our lab at Irvine, California!
6/11/2025: Fei co-chaired Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025 (June, Nashville, TN).
3/2/2025: Fei chaired the 4-day Neurophotonics sessions of Annual NeuroTech Convention of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics 2025 (in Los Angeles). We thank our wonderful invited speakers and attendees for making our session engaging and sharing new scientific advances!