Joey is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received his degrees from Rice University (BSEE) and UC-Berkeley (MS and PhD). His group explores optical materials, directed energy technologies, infrared and terahertz detectors and imaging, and nano-optical systems. Among his honors, Joey is a fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America) and has received the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States. This year, he is the Texas Instruments Visiting Professor at Rice University.
Joey’s Fulbright research at the University of Western Australia strives to overcome a performance limit that has blocked progress in thermal infrared cameras (night vision cameras that see heat) for decades. His collaboration will create meta-optics (structures with patterns smaller than the wavelength of light) that can absorb more light with less solid material than ever before.