Rate My Professor Florian Willomitzer

Willomitzer joined Northwestern University in Fall 2017 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science under Prof. Oliver Cossairt, advancing his research profile in computational 3D imaging. In November 2019, he became Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and established the 3DIM Lab. Since September 2022, he holds adjunct associate professorships in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, concurrently serving as Associate Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona's Wyant College. His research specializations include computational imaging, optics and photonics, AR/VR/MR technologies, optical 3D metrology, computer vision, information theory, and image processing. Current projects develop novel methods for imaging hidden objects through scattering media or around corners using synthetic wavelength holography, high-resolution holographic displays, unconventional precise VR eye-tracking, high-precision metrology in low-cost mobile handheld devices, and time-of-flight and structured light imaging techniques achieving depth resolutions in the 100μm range. He received the NSF CRII grant in 2022, won the Optica 20th Anniversary Challenge, and is an OSA Senior Member. Willomitzer serves as General Chair of the OSA COSI conference, Optics Chair of the IEEE ICCP conference, and reviewer for IEEE, OSA, SPIE, CVPR, and Nature Portfolio publications.