Optics & computational imaging

Zhirong Tao

I work at the intersection of photonics, wave-optics simulation, inverse design, and scientific computing.

Focus

Research Direction

Modeling light propagation, structured fields, and optical systems with reproducible numerical workflows.

Optimizing phase plates and diffractive layers under physical constraints and fabrication-aware assumptions.

Building simulation code, visualization tools, and notebooks that make optics concepts easier to inspect and reuse.

Projects

PyTorch and JAX framework for 3D-printed phase plates that shape structured light through multicore fibers.

MCF beam shaping

Multilayer phase-modulated diffractive networks for optical field transformations and diffractive neural network studies.

Optical computing

Fisher-information-guided simulations comparing measurement and reconstruction schemes for hyperspectral imaging.

TU Wien

More than 60 Python notebooks with reproducible simulations and visual explanations for an optics book project.

KIT x Jena

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