Education, talks, service & honors
Experience
Education, talks, academic service, and awards.
Education
PhD in Computer Science
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Exp. Aug 2028
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) · Los Angeles, CA
GPA: 3.88/4.0
2020–2022
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Mathematics
National Tsing Hua University · Hsinchu, Taiwan
GPA: 3.69/4.3
2014–2019
Talks & Presentations
Spectrum from Defocus: Fast Spectral Imaging with Chromatic Focal Stack
CVPR 2026 · Denver, CO
Homeostatic Adaptation of Optimal Population Codes under Metabolic Stress
ICLR 2026 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
When Color Becomes Threat: Mapping High-Dimensional Signals with Behavioral Manifolds in Mantis Shrimp
Mind & Machine Seminar · Northwestern University
Color from Defocus Camera
Cephalopod Neuroscience GRC · Galveston, TX
Neural Population Code Adaptation Under Changing Metabolic Constraints
NUIN Retreat · Northwestern University
Homeostatic Adaptation of Optimal Population Codes under Metabolic Stress
NITMB Neuroscience Meetup · Chicago, IL
Neural Population Code Adaptation Under Changing Metabolic Constraints
NITMB MathBio Convergence Conference · Chicago, IL
Academic Service
Conference Reviewer
CVPR · ICCV · NeurIPS
Journal Reviewer
Optics Express (8 reviews) · Optics and Lasers in Engineering (3) · Neurocomputing (2) · Applied Physics Letters (1) · Optics Continuum (1)
Awards
3rd Place, Best Poster
15th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays
2026
Taiwan Northwestern University Scholarship funding
4-year full PhD study
2023
J. Yang Scholarship
For exceptionally talented students from Taiwan to pursue study at UCLA
2020
National Science Council Research Scholarship
For supporting undergraduate students to do research
2018
IEEE Arctic Challenge Sponsorship
Global Top 6 Winner
2018