Members – Optics in Complex Systems

Principal investigator:
Chia Wei (Wade) Hsu

PhD students:
Zeyu Wang
Xingwei Gao
Shiyu Li
Mahsa Torfeh
Minh Dinh
Hao He

Undergraduate students:
Scott Sobolewski

Alumni:
Dr. Ho-Chun Lin (PhD 2024; now at Metalenz)
Tianhao Zhang (Master 2021; now at Tsinghua)
Zhuoyang Yu (Visiting student 2020; now at ETH Zurich)
Tianhang Chen (Visiting student 2020; now at Zhejiang University)

News

08-2024 | Paper "Wavefront shaping simulations with augmented partial factorization" was published in Journal of Physics: Photonics .

06-2024 | Ho-Chun defended his PhD thesis. Congrats!

06-2024 | New paper "Full transmission of vectorial waves through 3D multiple-scattering media" was posted on arXiv.

05-2024 | Shiyu received the SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship. Congrats!

04-2024 | Wade received the USC Viterbi Junior Faculty Research Award.

03-2024 | Paper "High-efficiency high-numerical-aperture metalens designed by maximizing the efficiency limit" was published in Optica.

02-2024 | Wade's team with Brian Applegate and John Oghalai won the Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize. See news article from USC.

02-2024 | Paper "Fast multichannel inverse design through augmented partial factorization" was published in ACS Photonics and featured on its cover:

02-2024 | Yiwen won the best poster award at the SPIE Photonics West. Congrats!

01-2024 | Wade received the IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award "for seminal work on bound states in the continuum in optics and for breakthroughs in computational electromagnetics and imaging." See news article from USC.

11-2023 | Wade's DARPA team, led by Zaijun Chen, was selected for the NaPSAC program.

10-2023 | Mahsa won an outstanding poster award at the ECE Research Festival. Congrats!

10-2023 | New paper "Dynamic gain and frequency comb formation in exceptional-point lasers" was posted on arXiv.

10-2023 | The Julia version of our multi-channel solver, MESTI.jl (Maxwell's Equations Solver with Thousands of Inputs), was released on GitHub with support for 3D vectorial waves.

10-2023 | Ho-Chun was selected as a USC Ming Hsieh Institute Scholar. Congrats!

08-2023 | New paper "Full-wave simulations of tomographic optical imaging inside scattering media" was posted on arXiv.

06-2023 | New paper "Deep imaging inside scattering media through virtual spatiotemporal wavefront shaping" was posted on arXiv.

06-2023 | Paper "Transmission efficiency limit for nonlocal metalenses" was published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

05-2023 | Wade received the PIERS Young Scientist Award.

04-2023 | New paper "Adaptive beamforming for optical wireless communication via fiber modal control " was posted on arXiv.

03-2023 | Wade's team with Mengjie Yu and Andrew Hires was selected for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Dynamic Imaging program.

01-2023 | Paper with Yaron Bromberg and Arthur Goetschy groups, "Coherent backscattering of entangled photon pairs," was published in Nature Physics.

01-2023 | USC published a news article on our Nature Computational Science paper on fast multi-source solver.

12-2022 | Paper "Fast multi-source nanophotonic simulations using augmented partial factorization" on the method behind our MESTI software was published in Nature Computational Science with an accompanying News and Views article and featured on its cover:

12-2022 | Paper "Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses" was published in Light: Science & Applications.

06-2022 | Mahsa received the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. Congrats!

05-2022 | The 2D version of our multi-channel solver MESTI.m (Maxwell's Equations Solver with Thousands of Inputs) was released on GitHub.

04-2022 | Wade received the NSF CAREER award. See news article from USC.

12-2021 | Wade received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award.

10-2020 | Wade received the Charles Lee Powell Faculty Research Award.