Chia Wei Wade Hsu

Research Summary

Dr. Hsu works on optics in complex systems, at the intersection of physics and applications. He has pioneered new ways to confine light in nanophotonic structures (called "bound states in the continuum"), control wave propagation in scattering media, and invented transparent displays based on resonant scattering. His group currently works on overcoming light scattering to image deep inside opaque media, computational electromagnetics for massively multi-channel systems, fundamental bounds of optical systems, inverse design, and the nonlinear dynamics of lasers near exceptional points. The research in his group employs a combination of analytic theory, simulations, experiments, data processing, and optimizations. An overall theme is the integration of physics and computation. See more at the group website https://sites.usc.edu/hsugroup.