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Adaptive optics, Computational imaging, Control, Signal processing, Machine learning
China

Biography

He Sun is an assistant professor in the National Biomedical Imaging Center (NBIC) at Peking University. His research primarily focuses on computational imaging and adaptive optics, which tightly integrates optics, control, signal processing and machine learning to design more capable scientific imaging instruments. Prior to starting at Peking University, He was a postdoctoral researcher and Amazon AI4Science Fellow at California Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2019 and his bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 2014. His past work has contributed to interdisciplinary science missions, including the Event Horizon Telescope for black hole interferometric imaging and space telescope missions for exoplanet direct imaging.

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Employment (2)

Peking University: Beijing, CN

2022-05 to present | Assistant Professor (National Biomedical Imaging Center)
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California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

2019-10 to 2022-04 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Computing and Mathematical Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2014-09 to 2019-09 | Ph.D. (Mehcanical and Aerospace Engineering)
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Peking University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

2010-09 to 2014-07 | B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics and Economics (College of Engineering & National School of Development)
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University of Maryland at College Park: College Park, MD, US

2014-01 to 2014-05 | Exchange Student (Mechanical Engineering)
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Works (46)

Deep learning-assisted analysis of single molecule dynamics from liquid-phase electron microscopy

Chemical Communications
2023 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1359-7345
Part of ISSN: 1364-548X
Contributors: Bin Cheng; Enze Ye; He Sun; HUAN WANG
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Discovering Structure From Corruption for Unsupervised Image Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Oscar Leong; Angela F. Gao; He Sun; Katherine L. Bouman
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Image Reconstruction without Explicit Priors

ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2023 | Conference paper
Contributors: Gao, Angela F; Leong, Oscar; Sun, He; Bouman, Katherine L
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Polarimetric Geometric Modeling for mm-VLBI Observations of Black Holes

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Roelofs, Freek; Johnson, Michael D; Chael, Andrew; Janssen, Michael; Wielgus, Maciek; Broderick, Avery E; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos et al.
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Recovering a Molecule's 3D Dynamics from Liquid-phase Electron Microscopy Movies

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision
2023 | Conference paper
Contributors: Ye, Enze; Wang, Yuhang; Zhang, Hong; Gao, Yiqin; Wang, Huan; Sun, He
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Filamentary structures as the origin of blazar jet radio variability

Nature Astronomy
2023-10-26 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2397-3366
Contributors: Antonio Fuentes; Jose L. Gómez; José M. Martí; Manel Perucho; Guang-Yao Zhao; ROCCO LICO; Andrei Lobanov; Gabriele Bruni; Yuri Kovalev; Andrew Chael et al.
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A universal power-law prescription for variability from synthetic images of black hole accretion flows

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Georgiev, Boris; Pesce, Dominic W; Broderick, Avery E; Wong, George N; Dhruv, Vedant; Wielgus, Maciek; Gammie, Charles F; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Koushik; Emami, Razieh et al.
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Characterizing and mitigating intraday variability: reconstructing source structure in accreting black holes with mm-VLBI

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Broderick, Avery E; Gold, Roman; Georgiev, Boris; Pesce, Dominic W; Tiede, Paul; Ni, Chunchong; Moriyama, Kotaro; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter et al.
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First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope results. I. The shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David et al.
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First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multi-wavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration; others
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First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. III. Imaging of the galactic center supermassive black hole

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David et al.
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First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope results. IV. Variability, morphology, and black hole mass

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David et al.
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First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. V. Testing astrophysical models of the galactic center black hole

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David et al.
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First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David et al.
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Millimeter Light Curves of Sagittarius A* Observed during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Wielgus, Maciek; Marchili, Nicola; Mart́ı-Vidal, Iván; Keating, Garrett K; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Tiede, Paul; Fomalont, Ed; Issaoun, Sara; Neilsen, Joey; Nowak, Michael A et al.
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Selective dynamical imaging of interferometric data

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Farah, Joseph; Galison, Peter; Akiyama, Kazunori; Bouman, Katherine L; Bower, Geoffrey C; Chael, Andrew; Fuentes, Antonio; Gomez, Jose L; Honma, Mareki; Johnson, Michael D et al.
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The filamentary internal structure of the 3C279 blazar jet

2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Fuentes, Antonio; Gomez, Jose; Mart́ı, José Maŕıa; Perucho, Manel; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Lico, Rocco; Lobanov, Andrei; Bruni, Gabriele; Kovalev, Yuri; Chael, Andrew et al.
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The variability of the black hole image in M87 at the dynamical timescale

The Astrophysical Journal
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Satapathy, Kaushik; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Özel, Feryal; Medeiros, Lia; Dougall, Sean T; Chan, Chi-Kwan; Wielgus, Maciek; Prather, Ben S; Wong, George N; Gammie, Charles F et al.
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α-deep Probabilistic Inference (α-DPI): Efficient Uncertainty Quantification from Exoplanet Astrometry to Black Hole Feature Extraction

The Astrophysical Journal
2022-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: He Sun; Katherine L. Bouman; Paul Tiede; Jason J. Wang; Sarah Blunt; Dimitri Mawet
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Bernoulli generalized likelihood ratio test for signal detection from photon counting images

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Hu, Mengya; Sun, He; Harness, Anthony; Kasdin, N Jeremy
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Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Algaba, Juan-Carlos; Anczarski, Jadyn; Asada, Keiichi; Baloković, Mislav; Chandra, S; Cui, Y-Z; Falcone, AD; Giroletti, MARCELLO; Goddi, C; Hada, K et al.
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Constraining the Orbit and Mass of epsilon Eridani b with Radial Velocities, Hipparcos IAD-Gaia DR2 Astrometry, and Multiepoch Vortex Coronagraphy Upper Limits

The Astronomical Journal
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Llop-Sayson, Jorge; Wang, Jason J; Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste; Mawet, Dimitri; Blunt, Sarah; Absil, Olivier; Bond, Charlotte; Brinkman, Casey; Bowler, Brendan P; Bottom, Michael et al.
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Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87

Physical Review D
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Kocherlakota, Prashant; Rezzolla, Luciano; Falcke, Heino; Fromm, Christian M; Kramer, Michael; Mizuno, Yosuke; Nathanail, Antonios; Olivares, Hector; Younsi, Ziri; Akiyama, Kazunori et al.
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Data-driven subspace predictive control of adaptive optics for high-contrast imaging

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Haffert, Sebastiaan Y; Males, Jared R; Close, Laird M; Van Gorkom, Kyle; Long, Joseph D; Hedglen, Alexander D; Guyon, Olivier; Schatz, Lauren; Kautz, Maggie; Lumbres, Jennifer et al.
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Data-driven subspace predictive control: lab demonstration and future outlook

Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets X
2021 | Conference paper
Contributors: Haffert, Sebastiaan Y; Males, Jared R; Close, Laird; Long, Joseph; Schatz, Lauren; van Gorkom, Kyle; Hedglen, Alexander; Lumbres, Jennifer; Rodack, Alexander; Guyon, Olivier et al.
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Deep probabilistic imaging: Uncertainty quantification and multi-modal solution characterization for computational imaging

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2021 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Bouman, Katherine L
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End-to-end sequential sampling and reconstruction for mr imaging

Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Health Conference
2021 | Conference paper
Contributors: Yin, Tianwei; Wu, Zihui; Sun, He; Dalca, Adrian V; Yue, Yisong; Bouman, Katherine L
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Exoplanet detection in starshade images

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Hu, Mengya; Harness, Anthony; Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy
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First M87 event horizon telescope results. VII. Polarization of the ring

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav et al.
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First M87 event horizon telescope results. VIII. Magnetic field structure near the event horizon

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Akiyama, Kazunori; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav et al.
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Polarimetric properties of Event Horizon Telescope targets from ALMA

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Goddi, Ciriaco; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Messias, Hugo; Bower, Geoffrey C; Broderick, Avery E; Dexter, Jason; Marrone, Daniel P; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Nagai, Hiroshi; Algaba, Juan Carlos et al.
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The polarized image of a synchrotron-emitting ring of gas orbiting a black hole

The Astrophysical Journal
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Narayan, Ramesh; Palumbo, Daniel CM; Johnson, Michael D; Gelles, Zachary; Himwich, Elizabeth; Chang, Dominic O; Ricarte, Angelo; Dexter, Jason; Gammie, Charles F; Chael, Andrew A et al.
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A sequential generalized likelihood ratio test for signal detection from photon counting images

J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Hu, M; Sun, H; HARNESS, ANTHONY; KASDIN, N JEREMY
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Efficient wavefront sensing for space-based adaptive optics

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy; Vanderbei, Robert
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Learning a probabilistic strategy for computational imaging sensor selection

2020 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)
2020 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Dalca, Adrian V; Bouman, Katherine L
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High-contrast integral field spectrograph (HCIFS): multi-spectral wavefront control and reduced-dimensional system identification

Optics Express
2020-07-20 | Journal article
Contributors: He Sun; Alexei Goun; Susan Redmond; Michael Galvin; Tyler Groff; Maxime Rizzo; N. Jeremy Kasdin
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Learning heuristic functions for mobile robot path planning using deep neural networks

Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
2019 | Conference paper
Contributors: Takahashi, Takeshi; Sun, He; Tian, Dong; Wang, Yebin
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Modern wavefront control for space-based exoplanet coronagraph imaging

2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference
2019 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Gersh-Range, Jessica; Kasdin, N Jeremy
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Sequential generalized likelihood ratio test for planet detection with photon-counting mode

Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX
2019 | Conference paper
Contributors: Hu, Mengya Mia; Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy
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The high-contrast spectroscopy testbed for segmented telescopes (HCST): new wavefront control demonstrations

Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX
2019 | Conference paper
Contributors: Llop-Sayson, Jorge; Ruane, Garreth; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Mawet, Dimitri; Echeverri, Daniel; Riggs, AJ Eldorado; Coker, Carl T; Morrissey, Grady; Sun, He
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First light of the high contrast integral field spectrograph (hcifs)

Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation III
2018 | Conference paper
Contributors: Delacroix, Christian; Sun, He; Galvin, Michael; Limbach, Mary Anne; Groff, Tyler; Rizzo, Maxime; Grossman, Matthew; Mumm, Katherine; Kasdin, N Jeremy
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Identification and adaptive control of a high-contrast focal plane wavefront correction system

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy; Vanderbei, Robert
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Neural network control of the high-contrast imaging system

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
2018 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy
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Identification of the focal plane wavefront control system using EM algorithm

Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VIII
2017 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy; Vanderbei, Robert
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Improved high-contrast wavefront controllers for exoplanet coronagraphic imaging systems

Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VIII
2017 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Kasdin, N Jeremy; Vanderbei, Robert; Riggs, AJ Eldorado; Groff, Tyler
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Modified deformable mirror stroke minimization control for direct imaging of exoplanets

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV
2016 | Conference paper
Contributors: Sun, He; Riggs, AJ Eldorado; Kasdin, N Jeremy; Vanderbei, Robert; Groff, Tyler
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