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Hong Hua

  • Professor, Optical Sciences
  • Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Professor, Computer Science
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Endowed Chair, Jean M Bennett Optica - Optical Sciences
Contact
  • hhua@optics.arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Optical engineering
    • Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P.R. China
    • Techniques of Immersion Enhancement and Interaction for Virtual Reality
  • B.S. Optical engineering
    • Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P.R. China

Work Experience

  • University of Central Florida (2009)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2003 - Ongoing)
  • University of Hawaii at Mãnoa (2002 - 2003)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999 - 2002)

Awards

  •  Finalist for the Innovator of the Year (Academia Category), Governor’s Celebration of Innovation
    • Arizona Tech Council, Fall 2021 (Award Finalist)
  • Best Student Paper Award
    • OSA, Summer 2021
  • Finalist for the Innovator of the Year (Academia Category), Governor’s Celebration of Innovation
    • Fall 2020 (Award Finalist)
  • NAI Fellow
    • National Academy of Inventors, Fall 2019
  • OSA Fellow
    • OSA, Fall 2019
    • Optical Society of America, Fall 2018
  • Fumio Okano Best Paper Prize
    • SPIE, Spring 2018
    • SPIE Conference, Spring 2015
  • Distinguished Student Paper Award
    • Society of Information Display, Display Week 2017, Summer 2017
  • Best Paper Award
    • SPIE Conference, Spring 2015

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Research

3D Visualization and Imaging Systems Laboratory (3DVIS Lab) specializes in a wide variety of optical technologies enabling advanced 3D displays, 3D visualization systems and collaborative immersive virtual and augmented environments, and novel imaging systems for medicine and surveillance applications. 3DVIS lab also pursues research projects to gain better understanding of human visual perception and visual artifacts via 3D displays, and to investigate design principles for effective human-computer interface in augmented environments. Examples of systems and technologies we have been researching on include, but not limited to, head-worn displays (aka head-mounted displays or HMD), multi-focal plane fixed-viewpoint volumetric displays, eye movement tracking, eyetracked head-worn displays, head-mounted projection displays, autostereoscopic displays, large-scale heterogeneous display environments for collaboration (SCAPE and Hybrid-SCAPE), multi-touch interface and gesture-based interface, endoscopy, microscopy, and panoramic video systems. 3DVISLab provide students training on a full range of multidisciplinary skills, from creation of novel system concepts and advanced optical system designs (such as freeform optical surfaces, diffractive optical element, aspherics), to system instrumentation, calibration and testing, programming, as well as user-in-the-loop subjective and objective assessment techniques.

Teaching

Optical engineering related coursesdisplay science and technology

Courses

2026-27 Courses

  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2026)

2025-26 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2026)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2026)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2026)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2025)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2025)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2025)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2024)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Intermed Optics Lab I
    OPTI 380A (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2023)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2023)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Summer I 2023)
  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2023)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2023)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Spring 2023)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2023)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2023)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2022)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2022)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Fall 2022)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Summer I 2022)
  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2022)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2022)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2022)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2022)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2021)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2021)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2021)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Fall 2021)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2021)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2021)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2021)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2020)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2020)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2020)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2020)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2020)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Fall 2019)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Summer I 2019)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Summer I 2019)
  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2019)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Spring 2019)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2019)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2019)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2018)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2018)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2018)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2018)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2018)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2017)
  • Intro to Display Science
    OPTI 588 (Fall 2017)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2017)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2017)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2016)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Adv Optics Laboratory
    OPTI 471B (Spring 2016)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2016)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2016)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2016)

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