{"id":32158,"date":"2024-04-02T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=32158"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:58:58","slug":"tianyu-wang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/tianyu-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianyu Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">Tianyu Wang\u2019s research<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">aims to harness<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>the comput<\/span><span class=\"s5\">ational<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">power from<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">optical physics<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>for the purpose of developing more efficient<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">sensors and processors<\/span><span class=\"s5\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">Traditionally<\/span><span class=\"s5\">, light<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">primarily<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">serves as a medium for transmitting information<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>in applications such as imaging and telecommunication<\/span><span class=\"s5\">, yet its<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">potential for information processing has attracted more attention recently. For example,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">light propagation<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">can perform large-scale linear operations efficiently,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">positioning it as a promising platform for artificial neural network implementation<\/span><span class=\"s5\">. Furthermore, by processing optical data natively in the optical domain,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">we can<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">improve the performance of optical sensors in multiple dimensions,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">including but not limited to their<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>latency, data throughput rate, and sensitivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tyw-lab.github.io\/research\/\">Prof. Wang\u2019s lab<\/a> work<\/span><span class=\"s5\">s<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>on both hardware and software development at three different levels: 1)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">D<\/span><span class=\"s5\">iscover new forms of optical information processing advantages in conju<\/span><span class=\"s5\">nction<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>with emerging computational models and photonic devices. 2)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">Develop<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>hardware systems that showcase the practical benefits of optical processing<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>in applications such as<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">high-throughput biomedical assays, remote sensing, and high-speed feedback controls. 3)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">Apply<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">artificial intelligence techniques<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>for adaptive self-configuration of photonic computing, sensing, and imaging systems.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s5\">Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Wang was a recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. He received his PhD degree in Applied Physics<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">from<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>Cornell University<\/span><span class=\"s5\">, with a minor<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">concentration on<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>Biomedical Engineering<\/span><span class=\"s5\">. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, and a member of Photonics Center and Neurophotonics Center.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22756,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38970,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32158\/revisions\/38970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}