Kyung Chul Lee
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I’m currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan working with Prof. Kevin Zhou, where my work focuses on computational optics and imaging. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Yonsei University advised by Prof. Seung Ah Lee and had the opportunity to be mentored by Prof. Roarke Horstmeyer in the Biomedical Engineering department at Duke University. I’ve been honored to receive the Silver Prize at the 28th Samsung Humantech Paper Awards and Graduate Research Fellowships from the NRF and MOHW.
My research interests are broadly in computational optics and imaging, with a particular focus on the co-design of optical hardware and image processing algorithms aiming to create advanced imaging systems for real-world applications. I have extensive experience in mask-based lensless imaging, Fourier ptychography, and in-vivo imaging using speckle dynamics. I enjoy chats and collaborative works with individuals who share a passion for their work :)
news
| Feb 24, 2025 | I am honored to receive my doctorate from the president. |
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| Aug 23, 2024 | I won the best presentation award at the 4th Quantitative Phase Imaging Symphosium. |
| Jun 06, 2024 | I gave a talk for privacy preserving imaging with lensless cameras at the GRC 2024. |
| Feb 28, 2024 | I gave a talk for semi-supervised virtual staining technique at the Photonics West 2024. |
| Sep 01, 2023 | I won the NRF fellowship for next-generation researchers. |
| Jul 17, 2023 | I won the excellence academic paper award from Yonsei university. |
| Mar 15, 2023 | I won the best presentation award at the 3rd Quantitative Phase Imaging Symphosium. |
| Jan 31, 2023 | I gave a talk for my virtual staining work at the SPIE Photonics West 2023 |
| Jan 15, 2023 | My paper was featured as a cover article for the January issue of Optica! |
| Jan 05, 2023 | I was at the CES 2023 to showcase my smartphone FPM. |
| Dec 16, 2022 | I won an excellence prize at the 14th Electronics Times Paper Awards! |
| Jun 06, 2022 | I gave a talk for my project regarding phase mask design at the GRC 2022. |
| Jun 01, 2022 | I received the Graduate Biomedical Research Fellowship and will visit Duke University for a year. |
| Feb 15, 2022 | I won a silver prize at the Samsung Humantech Paper Awards. |
| Mar 01, 2019 | I joined Optical Imaging System Labs as a graduate researcher. |
publications
2026
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Semi-supervised virtual staining using learned-illumination Fourier ptychography for high-speed label-free histopathologyJournal of Physics: Photonics, 2026
2025
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Fidelity-preserving zero-shot diffusion models for highly ill-posed inverse problems in lensless imagingImage and Vision Computing, 2025 -
Beneath the surface: revealing deep-tissue blood flow in human subjects with massively parallelized diffuse correlation spectroscopyNeurophotonics, 2025 -
Single-shot Fourier ptychography using polarization-encoded illuminationApplied Physics Letters, 2025 -
High-speed 4D fluorescence light field tomography of whole freely moving organismsOptica, 2025
2024
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Tensorial tomographic Fourier ptychography with applications to muscle tissue imagingAdvanced Photonics, 2024 -
Computational 3D topographic microscopy from terabytes of data per sampleJournal of Big Data, 2024 -
Anisotropic regularization for sparsely sampled and noise-robust Fourier ptychographyOptics Express, 2024
2023
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Design and single-shot fabrication of lensless cameras with arbitrary point spread functionsOptica, 2023 -
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2022
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Single-shot temporal speckle correlation imaging using rolling shutter image sensorsOptica, 2022
2021
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A smartphone-based Fourier ptychographic microscope using the display screen for illuminationACS Photonics, 2021
