Esther Lin 林詠惠

I am a 2nd year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Toronto co-advised by Kyros Kutulakos and David Lindell.

My research interests include optics, computational imaging, computational photography, and sensing hardware. I primarily work on co-designing imaging systems and algorithms for sub-diffraction imaging.

I have interned with Marc Levoy's NextCam computational photography group at Adobe (2021-2022) and Tesla's sensors team (2020). Previously, I completed a MSc (2022) in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and a BASc (2020) in Engineering Physics at the University of British Columbia.

cv lin [at] cs.toronto.edu

Research

	Learning Lens Blur Fields Esther Y. H. Lin, Zhecheng Wang, Rebecca Lin, Daniel Miau, Florian Kainz, Jiawen Chen, Cecilia Zhang, David B. Lindell, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos in submission, 2023 The lens blur field is a neural representation for modelling optical blur.
	Sub-Wavelength Passive Single-Shot Computational Super-Oscillatory Imaging Haitang Yang, Esther Y. H. Lin, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, George V. Eleftheriades Optica, 2022 A theory for incoherent super-oscillatory image formation generalized to any system of lenses for easy integration with existing microscopic or telescopic modalities.
	Computational Non-scanning Incoherent Super-Oscillatory Imaging Haitang Yang, Esther Y. H. Lin, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, George V. Eleftheriades ACS Photonics, 2021 Design constraints for super-oscillatory point spread functions can be significantly relaxed in an incoherent system with the convolutional-based image formation model.

Experience

research intern @ Adobe, Computational Photography (2021-2022)
engineering intern @ Tesla, Sensors (2020)
research intern @ Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Miller group (2018)
engineering intern @ Ciena, Submarine and Foreign Lines (2017)

Projects

Shooting lasers at thin films and droplets
From my internship at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure of Dynamics Matter, Dr. Dwayne Miller's Atomically Resolved Dynamics group.

Teaching

CSC2530 Computational Imaging and 3D Sensing @ UofT (2022, teaching assistant)
CSC320 Introduction to Visual Computing @ UofT (2021-2022, teaching assistant)
Coding Club @ Richmond City Centre Community Centre (2019 - Ongoing, instructor)
CPEN221 Principles of Software Construction @ UBC (2017, teaching assistant)

Fun

	Procrastinating at my desk An ongoing dump for fun projects :)
	Coding Club A collection of drawings and animations my students and I have made in Coding Club @ Richmond City Centre Community Centre.
	CAD Models for Imaging A collection of generic components for rendering optical setups. My brother Sam has a more diverse collection.

and...

My siblings Rebecca, Josh, and Sam do neat work.
A massive THANK YOU to Sam Sinha, Anagh Malik, Amar Shah, Cindy Zhang, Zara Lim, Svena Yu, Paul Liu, Eugene Shen, Simon Zheng, and Joel Ahn for the continuous emotional and technical support!

Updated Sept 3 2022
Thanks, Rebecca for the template!