Research Asistant

Ziyi Zhu

***** ***** **** ** ****, Tampa, FL, ***13

Tel: 813-***-****

Email: *******.***@*****.***

EDUCATION:

**/****-******* **.*. in Applied Physics.

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

09/2010-05/2012 M.S in Materials Engineering.

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA

09/2005-07/2009 B.S in Material Science and Engineering.

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

SKILL:

Software Skill: MATLAB, Zemax, LabView, Python, Fortran, Illustrator, C, SolidWorks, MS Office.

Research Skill: Fourier Optics, Optical Design, Optical Metrology, Microscopy, Digital Holography, Imaging Processing, Machine learning, Adaptive optical, Interferometry, Polarimetry, Spectroscopy, Laser.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

09/2012-current Research Assistant, Photon Lab,

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Design and build an optical system to measure the amplitude, phase and spatial polarization distribution of a light field by a single-shot measurement.

oAssemble and align the optical metrology system.

oCalibrated the phase aberration of imaging system by SLM.

oAnalyze and do imaging processing by MATLAB for extracting the phase information and eliminating the noise on image results.

oUse Zemax to simulate the sequential optical system and design a microscopy imaging system.

Develop a self-interference polarization holographic imaging system, which can reconstruct a 3D object illuminated by incoherent light source.

oProgram LabVIEW based automatic system to control DMD projector and camera.

oProgram compressive sensing algorithm to reduce the noise of images.

Design, develop and test a free-space optical communication system based on vector beams through turbulence, optimize data accuracy and transmission efficiency of this system.

oUse LabVIEW and MATLAB to control an oscilloscope and collect and analysis the data through communication system under different turbulence conditions.

oUtilize MATLAB for data analysis and visualization, demonstrate that the vector beam resists the atmosphere turbulence in optical communication.

Numerically and experimentally research on the propagation and healing phenomenon of Airy beam, explain the principle of healing phenomenon.

09/2010-05/2012 Research Assistant, Fiber Optical and Nanophotonics Lab,

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

Research on deposit polymer film in photonic crystal fiber for pH and chemical sensor.

Set up a 120-degree mirror facility for CO2 laser written symmetric long-period grating.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

09/2012-current Teaching Assistant, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Instructor of General Physics Lab course. Give lectures to undergraduate students and lead them to perform experiments.

PUBLICATION:

1.Ziyi Zhu and Zhimin Shi. "Self-interference polarization holographic imaging of a three-dimensional incoherent scene." Applied Physics Letters 109, 9 (2016): 091104.

2.Ziyi Zhu, Hay Darrick, Yiyu Zhou, Alexander Fyffe, Brian Kantor, Girish S. Agarwal, Robert W. Boyd, and Zhimin Shi. "Single-Shot Direct Tomography of the Complete Transverse Amplitude, Phase, and Polarization Structure of a Light Field." Physical Review Applied 3, 12 (2019): 034036.

3.Fei Zhuang, Ziyi Zhu, Jessica Margiewicz, and Zhimin Shi. "Quantitative study on propagation and healing of Airy beams under experimental conditions." Optics letters 40, 5 (2015): 780-783.

4.Zhimin Shi, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Jessica Margiewicz, Mehul Malik, Freida Rivera, Ziyi Zhu, and Robert W. Boyd. "Scan-free direct measurement of an extremely high-dimensional photonic state." Optica 2, 4 (2015): 388-392.

5.Yiyu Zhou, Jiapeng Zhao, Zhimin Shi, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Ziyi Zhu, Alan E. Willner, and Robert W. Boyd. "Hermite–Gaussian mode sorter." Optics letters 43, 21 (2018): 5263-5266.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION:

1.Z. Zhu and Z. Shi, "Self-interference digital polarization holography for three-dimensional incoherent imaging," in Frontiers in Optics 2015, FTh4D.2.

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