I come from an interdisciplinary background. Being an optical engineer, I am especially interested in how novel engineering techniques can benefit healthcare and address long-standing clinical problems. I care about how these new technologies translate from our laboratories into the clinic, and what we can do to make them more reliable and user-friendly.

I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Optoelectronics from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2018, before starting my DPhil at the University of Oxford with Prof. Martin Booth. My work concerned the application of adaptive optics (AO), remote focusing (RF), and machine learning techniques, and how they can be introduced into the operating theatre to provide stabilised high-resolution image guidance during surgery. I am also keen on removing the barriers of AO so that it can be used by the wider community, for which reason I wrote a user-friendly AO and RF control software, as well as AO tutorials intended for non-specialists.

I joined Pembroke College after completing my DPhil in 2022, and now work jointly between the Departments of Engineering Science, Experimental Psychology, and Pharmacology. My current research in Prof. Hannah Smithson’s lab focuses on developing novel adaptive optical retinal imaging systems to identify biomarkers of neurodegenerative, systemic, and psychiatric diseases through the living eye for revolutionised point-of-care medicine; as well as to understand how the eye, as a directly observable part of the central nervous system, reacts to different spatio-temporal stimuli patterns, and processes visual neural information. It is exciting to think about all the possibilities optical engineering can bring to future healthcare.

I am also a special correspondent of Light: Science & Applications, a member of the Optica Publishing Group (previously OSA), and have experience in teaching undergraduate optics, biomedical imaging, and spatial perception labs/courses in different departments across the University.