Meta-Optics @ Tsinghua University | Yuanmu Yang Research Group

Welcome

Welcome to the Meta-Optics Group at Tsinghua University. Affiliated with the Department of Precision Instrument, we are based in Beijing, China.

AI systems are outgrowing the cameras that feed them: high-performance vision still relies on bulky optics, while intelligent machines need sensors that are compact, efficient, and natively computational. We close this gap with meta-optics and minimalist multidimensional imaging—encoding light at the subwavelength scale and co-designing optical front-ends with end-to-end neural decoding. Our vision is an AI-native sensing stack for next-generation machine vision and embodied intelligence.

Prospective PostDocs, PhD students, and research interns are encouraged to review the Openings page before applying.

Recent Research Highlights

Bypassing the imaging thickness limit with a translationally-invariant nonlocal thin film

$Extended-scene monocular 3D imaging via the fusion of diffraction- and polarization-based depth cues$

Extended-scene monocular 3D imaging via the fusion of diffraction- and polarization-based depth cues

Optica 12(6), 872 (2025)

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Recent News

2026-07
Yuanmu delivered invited talks at multiple conferences throughout the summer, including META, PIERS, CLEO-PR, and CITA, presenting our recent progress in nonlocal optics for imaging systems.
2026-05
Bohan Zhang delivered two talks at CLEO 2026, presenting his recent work on addressing fundamental scaling constraints in imaging systems via nonlocal optics.
2026-05
Zicheng, Yiying, Chenchen, and Xinyuan successfully defended their Ph.D. theses. Congratulations!
2026-01
Bohan Zhang delivered two talks at SPIE Photonics West 2026. Yuanmu Yang delivered a special seminar at Stanford University. Both presented our recent work on addressing fundamental scaling constraints in imaging systems via nonlocal optics.
2025-06
Liu Li and Shun Wen successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
2024-12
Wenhe and Yibo successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
2024-09
Our group's work on metasurface-based monocular 3D camera has been selected as Triennial Outstanding Achievement in Optical Metamaterial and Triennial Outstanding Achievement in Computational Imaging by the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering (CSOE). Triennial Outstanding Achievement in Optical Metamaterial Triennial Outstanding Achievement in Computational Imaging
2024-09
Yuanmu received the Early Career Faculty Award at Tsinghua University. Early Career Faculty Award at Tsinghua University
2024-06
Liu won the Outstanding Award at the Light Doctoral Academic League (ranked 8th out of over 800 participating PhD students nationwide). Replay of the league final
2024-03
Yuanmu is listed as a “Highly-cited Researcher in China” by Elsevier in 2023. “Highly-cited Researcher in China” by Elsevier
2023-12
Yun successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
2023-10
Yuanmu gave a talk at iCANX Youth Talks along with Prof. Howard Lee at UC Irvine and Prof. Pin-Chieh Wu at National ChengKung University on the recent development and application of meta-optics. Replay of the event (in English)
2023-09
Yuanmu received the Young Scientist Award at the IEEE Optoelectronics Global Conference 2023 held in Shenzhen, China. IEEE Optoelectronics Global Conference 2023
2023-08
Wenhe won the 2nd prize at the Light Doctoral Academic League (ranked 4th out of over 800 participating PhD students nationwide). Thanks to him, Yuanmu received the outstanding mentor award. Light Doctoral Academic League Replay of the league final
2023-08
Shun and Wenhe won the Best Student Paper Award, Ruiqi (an undergraduate student in our group) won the Best Poster Award at the Light Conference Week held in Changchun, China. Light Conference Week
2023-07
Yuanmu is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Tsinghua. Huge thanks to all group members, colleagues, and mentors.
2023-06
Yuanmu gave a webinar organized by Advanced Photonics/Chinese Laser Press on extreme nonlinear optics in ENZ materials. Replay of the webinar (in Chinese)
2023-05
Yibo and Zicheng were both selected in the Forbes Asia “30 Under 30” list for their work developing the next-generation monocular 3D cameras. Forbes Asia “30 Under 30”