Team
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Cornell University
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Photonics Center | Neurophotonics Center (NPC) | Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE)
Email: wangty_AT_bu.edu
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D. in Physics, Zhejiang University, China
Research interests: Optical computing; Computational imaging; Light field modulation.
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PhD Students
Joined Lab in 2024
B.S. in Material Sciences/Physics, Duke Kunshan University, China
Research interests: Photonic Integrated Circuits
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Joined Lab in 2025
B.S. in Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, China
Research interests: Biomedical Optics
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Joined Lab in 2025
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S. in Physics, University of Washington, Seattle
Research interests: Optical Instrumentation; Physical Modeling.
Master's Students
Undergraduate Students
Class of 2026 | Computer Engineering
Joined Lab in 2024
UROP Summer 2025, Fall 2025
Research interests: Digital System Design (FPGA)
Class of 2026 | Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics
Joined Lab in 2025
UROP Spring 2026
Research interests: Optics and Lasers
Visitors
Alumni
Nolan Vild, Master's Student — M.S., 2025 >>>
Legacy: Founding member of the lab; designed and built the first optical neural network based flow cytometer.
Kit Ng, Master's Student — M.S., 2026 >>> RF Circuit Designer
Legacy: Founding member of the lab; set up the electronics workstation; designed and fabricated the lab’s first circuit board for photodiode arrays; constructed a microfluidic system.
Yongning Young Ma, Master's Student — M.S., 2025 >>> Digital Design Engineer, Texas Instruments
Legacy: Founding member of the lab; professionally set up and configured the lab server; initiated and led FPGA programming projects.
Andrew Sasamori, Undergraduate Researcher — B.S., 2025
Legacy: Independently studied and elucidated the principle of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) to the lab.
Liam Deighton, Undergraduate Researcher 2025 — Undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis
Legacy: Independently trained machine-learning models predicting visual stimuli based on calcium neuronal imaging data in the mouse brain.
Nathan Cao, Undergraduate Researcher (NSF REU 2025) — Undergraduate at Rice University
Shuwen Xue, Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2025) — Undergraduate at Zhejiang University
Legacy: Benchmarked different spatial light modulators and piezoelectric motors; worked on multi-plane light conversion for generating optical angular momentum beams; investigated AI tools for experiment automation.