People
Principal Investigator
Andreas Velten velten [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Associate Professor
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department & Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
I perform multidisciplinary research in applied computational optics and imaging. Optical imaging traditionally has been focused on producing and processing human interpretable images. This approach is becoming impractical on the collection side, where virtually infinite amounts of optical data can be collected, and on the processing side, where computers rather than humans are used to interpret images. My research focuses on developing new ultrafast computational optics and imaging methods that, by co-designing collection hardware and processing software, extend human and machine vision both quantitatively – improving image parameters soch as resolution – and qualitatively – developing new kinds of capabilities that are beyond what even the best possible traditional image could deliver. I am developing ultrafast computational cameras that can see around corners, through scattering media, and can detect cancerous tissue and evaluate plant health by detecting fluorescence lifetime.
Besides my academic work, I am co-founder of two companies: OnLume develops surgical fluorescence imaging cameras, and Formula Database is a search engine for mathematical equations.
Current Members
Yizhou Lu ylu289 [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Graduate Student
Yizhou joined our group in June 2019. He is working on Single Photon Imaging.
Ehsan Ahmadi eahmadi2 [at] wisc.edu
Graduate Student
Alex Bocchieri abocchieri [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Graduate Student
Alex joined our group in January 2021. He received his B.S degree in electrical engineering in 2018 and M.S. degree in computer science in 2020 from Johns Hopkins University. His research as a master’s student included medical image analysis and deep learning. He is now a PhD student in the Computer Sciences department at UW-Madison. His current research includes computational methods for imaging gamma ray interactions in a scintillator.
Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh Khadijeh.Masumnia-Bisheh [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Postdoc Research Associate
David Parra deparra [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Graduate Student
David joined our group in August 2023. He received his B.S. degree in computer science and mathematics from University of Arizona in 2021. He is a PhD student in the Computer Science department at UW-Madison specializing in machine learning and computer vision. His current research includes computational methods for single-photon 3D imaging.
Jidong Xu jxu629 [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Graduate Student
Forrest Peterson fpeterson2 [at] wisc.edu, Personal website
Graduate Student
Forrest joined our group in 2024. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Calvin University in 2024. He is a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UW-Madison specializing in machine learning and signal processing. His current research includes laser speckle based non-line-of-sight imaging methods and computational methods for scintillator-based radiation imaging.