Group Coordinator : Ting-Chung (T.-C.) Poon

Ting-Chung Poon is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA. His current research interests include 3-D image processing, and optical scanning holography (OSH). Dr. Poon is the author of the monograph Optical Scanning Holography with MATLAB (Springer, 2007), and is the co-author of, among other textbooks, Introduction to Modern Digital Holography with MATLAB (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is also Editor of the book Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Display (Springer, 2006). Dr. Poon served as Division Editor of Applied Optics from 2008 to 2014, and was Associate Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Optics Letters. Currently, Prof. Poon is Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Photonics, and Editor of Applied Sciences. Dr. Poon is the founding Chair of the Optical Society (OSA) topical meeting Digital holography and 3-D imaging (2007). He was a Chair of the OSA Emmett N. Leith Medal Committee and a member of the OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert Burley Prize Committee. Currently he is General Chair of 2021 Frontier in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS).

Dr. Poon is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Optical Society (OSA), and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He received the 2016 Dennis Gabor Award of the SPIE for “pioneering contributions to optical scanning holography (OSH), which has contributed significantly to the development of novel digital holography and 3-D imaging.”

Dr. Poon was a Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, a Visiting Professor at Shizuoka University (Hamamatsu, Japan), Nihon University (Japan), National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan), Zhejiang Normal University (China), and City University of Hong Kong (China). Currently he is a Distinguished Chair Professor of Feng Chia University (Taiwan). He is also an Adjunct Professor at National Central University (Taiwan) and Shanghai University (China).

email: tcpoon@vt.edu

Taegeun Kim

Taegeun Kim is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Sejong University, Seoul, Korea. His current research interests include holography and 3-D imaging systems. Dr. Kim is the co-author of the textbook Engineering Optics with MATLAB (World Scientific 2006, and 2017). Dr. Kim was National R&D Program Director for the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea. He served as a Topical Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea from 2011 to 2014, and he has been a Topical Editor of Applied Optics since 2015. Dr. Kim is a member of the Optical Society of Korea (OSK), and the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is also a Senior Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

email: takim@sejong.ac.kr

Edmund Y. Lam

Edmund Lam is a Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering (Teaching and Learning), as well as the Director of the Computer Engineering program and the founding director of the Imaging Systems Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong. A recipient of the IBM Faculty Award, he is also a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), as well as the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).

To date, he has published around 250 articles, and graduated more than 25 students. A couple of his papers were given best paper awards, including the First ASML/Cymer Best Student Paper Award in the SPIE Lithography Asia conference and the best paper award in the IEEE International Conference of Advanced Learning Technologies. One of his papers on digital holography was selected among the 10 ‘‘Editor’s Picks’’ in the 50th anniversary of Applied Optics that reflect the progression in this area over the journal’s history.

Jung-Ping Liu

Jung-Ping Liu received the B.S. degree in physics from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in optical sciences from National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 2005.

He is currently a Distinguished Research Chair Professor in the Department of Photonics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. His current research interests include holography-related techniques, including digital holography, holographic 3-D display, and holographic data storage. Dr. Liu is a Topical Editor of Applied Optics.

Min-Chul Park

Min-Chul Park received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a principal research scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and a professor at the University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul, Korea. His research interests include 3D image display, human factors, and signal processing. He has been a reviewer for the journal of optical engineering, electronic imaging, applied optics, journal of display and so on. He is a member of the SPIE, the IEEE, and the OSK. He has been an associate editor for the IEICE transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer sciences since August 2014.

email: minchul@kist.re.kr

Peter Tsang

Peter Wai Ming Tsang received the B.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Hong Kong, in 1978, 1981 and 1987, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He is actively engaged in research on Digital Holography and 3-D technology, focusing in developing methods for generation, processing, and display of hologram.

Dr. Tsang is currently a Topical Editor of Applied Optics (OSA), an Editor of the ICT Express (Elsevier), and a member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Physics. He had also served as a Guest Editor/Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (IEEE).

Hongbo Zhang

Hongbo Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Sciences at Virginia Military Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He was a Post-doc researcher at Virginia Tech. He has been working in several different research areas including Human and Computer Interactions, Biomechanics, Manufacturing, Optics, 3D Imaging, Digital Holography, Optical Scanning Holography, Imaging Processing, and Computer Vision.

He also has been working on software development for over 15 years using different computer languages in China, Singapore, and the US. He has developed numerous professional software including Tianhe CAD, Tianhe CAPP, E-portfolios, Open source education software (code named Sakai), Sports Management, Schedule Management and Optimization, etc. He has been working on developing Scientific Computation software for image processing, signal processing, statistical analysis, machine learning, and computer vision.

email: zhangh@vmi.edu

Yaping Zhang

Yaping Zhang received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Optical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2007, respectively. She is currently a Professor in Optics and Founder and Director of Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Modern Information Optics (LMIO), Kunming University of Science and Technology. She is an academic leader in Optics in Yunnan Province, China. She is also a member of the Steering Committee on Opto-Electronic Information Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education, China. Dr. Zhang was a Post-doctoral Scholar at Zhejiang University (China) and Harvard University (US) from 2009-2011. Currently she is a visiting scholar in the Optical Scanning-Holographic Imaging Group (OSIG), Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Virginia.

Prof. Zhang is currently a Sub-Committee Chair of 2021 Frontier in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS). She is Optical Information Processing and Holography Associate Editor of Frontiers in Photonics.

Her current research interests include digital holography and its applications to 3-D display, focusing on developing methods for generation, processing, and display of holograms.

email: yapingzhang@vt.edu

Wen-Jing Zhou

Wen-Jing Zhou was a visiting scholar in the Optical Scanning-Holographic Imaging Group (OSIG), Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Virginia. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Precision Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University, China. She received her Ph.D. in Mechatronic Engineering at Shanghai University in 2008. She is an author of over forty scientific publications. Her current research interests include digital holography, digital holographic tomography, Transport-of-Intensity Equation and other precision optical measurements. She has been a reviewer for 《Applied Optics》、《Optics Letters》、《IEEE Industrial Electronics Society》、《IEEE Photonics》、《Chinese Optics Letters》、《Optical and Laser Engineering》、《Journal of Biomedical Optics》、《Optik》、and 《Optical Engineering》.

email: lazybee@shu.edu.cn