2026 ImageSense Student Paper Competition

The papers submitted to the competition were reviewed during the standard Technical Program Committee (TPC) review process, which resulted in 28 finalists being selected. After the papers were presented at the meeting, the Program Committee members selected winners based on content quality, value to the technical community of interest and the student's presentation skills.

Congratulations to the 2026 Winners!

Marguerite Arvis, TU Delft, Netherlands
Measuring Turbulence Statistics in Delft from Star Focal Images

Lorenzo Borsoi, CISAS University of Padova, Dynamic Optics srl, Italy
Refractive Adaptive Optics for Beam Wandering Correction on a 270-meter Urban Free-space Optical Link

Shivam K Chaubey, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India
High-Speed 3D Tomographic Microscopy via Symmetric Multi-GHz Comb Sweep and Fourier Fringe Analysis

Benjamin David Hunt, National Institute of Standards & Technology, United States
Two-photon Doppler-free Spectroscopy of the 6s6s 1S0 → 6s23s 1S0 Rydberg Transition for Quantum Sensing in Ytterbium

Lukas Klein, Technical University of Liberec, Institute of Plasma Physics of CAS, Czechia
Thin Layer Defects Characterization Through Compressive Hyperspectral Imaging

Joseph C Klug, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Visualizing Transparent Gas Leaks with Inverse Backscatter Absorption Gas Imaging (iBAGI)

Haesung Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Etch-Free Photoluminescence Enhancement of InSe with an Epsilon-Near-Zero TiN Film

John McCauley, University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, United States
Advancing Dual-Comb Spectroscopy to the VUV

Daniel Santiago Penagos Molina, Helmholtz Institute Jena, Institute of Applied Phyisics - FSU Jen, Germany
High Throughput Material-Resolved Surface Metrology Enabled by Tabletop EUV Reflection Ptychography

Anna Stevenson, University of Virginia, United States
Improved Spectral Selectivity of fs/ps CARS using Phase-modulated Excitation

Marina Vasileva, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Time-Domain Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy using SPAD Gated Camera for Deep Tissue Blood Flow Monitoring

Vilde Vraalstad, SINTEF, Norway
NIR Interaction Spectroscopy for Determining Total Soluble Solids in On-the-plant Strawberries Under Daylight Conditions

Congratulations to the 2026 Finalists!

Hanin Ayash, Tue, Netherlands
Achromatic Hybrid Metalens for Visible-NIR Wavelengths Using Inverse-Designed Bilayer Metasurfaces

Jui-Chi Chang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Deep Neural Network-based Dispersion Identification and Compensation for Multi-Line TFMPM

Florian Dötzer, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Full-Field Vibrometry Through Scattering Media Using Synthetic Wavelength Imaging

Sakshi Dubey, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India       
Speckle Reduction for Atmospheric Turbulence Channel using Stress-Engineered Optical Element

Vytautas Gradauskas, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Minimally Invasive Optical Head Implants for Brain Sensing

Leona Licht, GSI Helmholtz für Schwerionenforschung, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Germany
Quantitative Nanoscale Material Mapping based on EUV Ptychography

Yiming Liu, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Topology of Image Distortion Fields Driven by Optical Misalignment

Isey Bekele Meka, Scuola Superiore SantAnna, University of Trento, Italy
Signal Processing Algorithms for Improved OFDR-based Distributed Fiber Sensing

Bastian Werner Rüppel, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Insights into Automotive Fuel Cell Operation through Raman Spectroscopy of Gas Streams

Sander Senhorst, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Thin-sample Limits in Reflection Ptychography: When 2D Models Fail and How to Fix Them

Minghui Shi, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Polarization Multiplexing for High-contrast Volumetric Two-photon Microscopy

Hang Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Image Feature-Assisted Robotic Optical Coherence Tomography System for Ophthalmic Applications

Jacob Trzaska, University of Arizona, United States
Subdiffraction Object Discrimination via Point Spread Function Rejection

Xiaoxiao Wen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Multicolor Three-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy with Fiberized Mamyshev Oscillator at 1.7 μm

Jonas Maximilian Wollenberg, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Optical Intracavity Feedback for Boosting Magnetic Sensitivity

Xunzhou Xiao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Neural Network-Enhanced FMCW Spectroscopy for Multicomponent Gas Detection