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DIRECTOR

Yoshiaki YASUNO
PhD of Engineering
yasuno@optlab2.bk.tsukuba.ac.jp
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Yasuno leads Computational Optics Group at the University of Tsukuba. He obtained his PhD for spatio-temporal optical computing in 2000, and extend the theory of optical computing to optical measurement. Since 2003 he has been studying an application of optical computing to high-speed medical imaging, which is currently recognized as Fourier-d
omain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT). He is current research interest is functional extensions of OCT including polarization sensitive OCT,  OCT angiography, and its unified version, so called as Jones matrix OCT.

FACULTY AND RESEARCH MEMBERS

Shuichi MAKITA              
PhD of Engineering

Shuichi is an Associate Professor at the Computational Optics Group in the University of Tsukuba. Topics of his research is development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and its application. He received his B.E. in polarization sensitive OCT (PS-OCT) from University of Tsukuba, his M.E. in parallel detecting PS-OCT and one-shot phase shifting OCT from University of Tsukuba, and his PhD of engineering in high-speed spectral-domain OCT and optical coherence angiography from University of Tsukuba.

Pradipta Mukherjee
PhD of Engineering



Antonia Lichtenegger
PhD of Medical Physics

I finished my two master studies, technical mathematics, and Biomedical Engineering, in 2015 at the Technical University of Vienna. In the following, I received my PhD in Medical Physics in 2020 from the Medical University of Vienna. I joined the group of Prof. Yasuno in January 2021. With the support of a fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) I will be able to conduct my postdoc position at the University of Tsukuba for 14 months. My current focus of research lies in designing, setting up and testing OCT . Furthermore, my interests are integrating multimodal extensions to OCT systems and developing novel image processing tools.




STUDENTS AND PHD CANDIDATES


Ibrahim Adb El-Sadek
Lida Zhu
Kensuke OIKAWA
Praew, Thitiya Seesan
Kiriko TOMITA
Jiajie Luo

Yiqiang Zhu
After obtaining a bachelor's degree in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering from Foshan University in China, I am preparing for the exam in order to become a master's student. Currently I am working on VCSEL light source 1310nm OCT design.

Langfei Yu
Langfei graduated from Anhui Polytechnic University in 2020, majoring in software engineering, and then came to COG as a research student with the goal of obtaining a master‘s degree , he is now mainly engaged in the research of using neural network to optimize OCT images.

Yusong Liu
I obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Nation Sun Yat-sen University(国立中山大学). And now I am working for searching for the depth of focus based on OCT intensity image in Computational Optics Group, University of Tsukuba.

Rion MORISHITA
Syunpei KOJIMA




ADMINISTRATIVE MEMBERS

MS. Kayo YUYAMA
Chief office assistant

Ms. Yuyama heads the administrative part of our lab. COG. Her expertise covers general office administration, accounting, and legal issues.

MS. Tomomi NAKAYAMA
Assistant Research Administrator

Ms. Nakayama is working for general administration of research activities. It includes assertive work for research planning, R&D schedule management, collaboration management with industries.


COLLABORATORS

Masahiro MIURA, MD, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology,
Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center

Tetsuro OSHIKA
Shinichi FUKUDA
Yuta UENO
Sujin HOSHI
Department of Ophthalmology,
University of Tsukuba

FORMER MEMBERS AND EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Daisuke OIDA
Daisuke is doing his bachelor's study about "virtual aperture microscope." It is a new imaging modality which has multiple technological aspects including holography, OCT, and microscopy. His bachelor's study is the very first attempt of this new imaging theory.


Arata MIYAZAWA
Arata has been working for image processing of polarization sensitive (PS-) and multifunctional optical coherence tomography (OCT). He received his masters degree for his research on PS-OCT based tissue classification. His current research interest covers superpixel analysis of multifunctional OCT.


Shinnosuke AZUMA
Shinnosuke did his bachelor's study on clinical Jones matrix OCT development. After finalizing this project, he expanded his research into multi-contrast signal processing which is specially designed his clinical Jones matrix OCT.


Deepa KASARAGOD, till 2018
Deepa Kasaragod was a postdoctoral researcher at Univ. Tsukuba, and has worked for quantitative birefringence measurement and its application to glaucoma diagnosis. She is currently working in Department of Neurobiology, Hiroshima University for optical brain imaging.

En Li, till 2018

Yiwei CHEN, till 2017
moved to Universidad de Murcia (Spain) as a research associate.

Aaron CHAN, till 2017

Tanlin LIAO, till 2017
was a exchange student from National Chio Tung University (NCTU, aiwan), and
currently works at NCTU for hear masters.

Young-Joo HONG, till 2016
currently works at Koh Young Technology (Korea)

Kazuhiro KUROKAWA, till 2015
currently works at School of Optometry, Indiana University (USA), as a research associate.

Lian DUAN, till 2013
moved to Stanford University (USA) as a research associate.

Myeong-Jin JU, till 2013
was an exchange student from University of British Columbia (Canada), and
currently works at Simon Fraser University (Canada) as a research associate.

Masahiro YAMANARI, till 2008
is currently  working at Tomey Corporation for his PS-OCT.

Yihen LIM
currently teaches at Saitama University as an assistant professor.

Udaya BHASKAR, 2013
was an exchange student from Indian Institute of Technology in Bhubaneswar (India).

Tapio FABRITUS
was an exchange researcher from Oulu University (Finland), and 
currently teaches at Oulu University as a professor.

Frederik TRUFFER
was an exchange student from  Institute of System Engineering, University of Applied Science and Arts Western Switzerland (Switzerland)

Dr. Eun Jung MIN
Hwidong LEE
Dr. Jeung-Geun SHIN
were exchange students from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology