Yizhou Lu

Credentials: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW-Madison

Position title: PhD Student

Email: ylu289@wisc.edu

Website: The Computational Optics Group

Address:
Rm 6544, Morgridge Hall


Keywords: vision physics, information theory, computational imaging, computer vision

Advisor: Andreas Velten

Education
BS 2017, Geochemistry, Nanjing University
MS 2019, Materials Science and Engineering, UW-Madison
MS 2023, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison

Research
I am rethinking AI-powered vision starting from the first photon. I’ve found that many commonly used noise models limit progress in low-light vision. My work aims to move beyond these limitations by building physics-driven vision pipelines that capture the true behavior of light. By co-designing the optics and the software, I develop imaging systems that see better because they are grounded in the physics of vision.

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