Shaobai Li Wins 2022 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition

Shaobai Li's project, advised by Dr. Rongguang Liang, "Modeling of DMD-Based Chromatic Confocal Microscope with Freeform Prisms" was selected for the 2022 Synopsys Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. The competition is overseen by Synopsys, a Wyant College Industrial Affiliates member, and honors the memory of Bob Hilbert (1941-2008), former President and Chief Executive Officer of Optical Research Associates. See the official announcement.

A student from Wyant College has won this award nearly every year for the last 22 years. Past years' winners at Wyant College include:

2021: Elliot Kwan, and as a team: Jace Malm, Avalon McLeod, Sebastian Valencia,  and Lam Nguyen

2020: Jieun Ryu

2018: Caleb Gannon and Miaomiao Xu

2017: Hekun Huang

2016: Weichuan Gao

2015: Yi Qin, and as a team: Stephanie Guzman, Travis Sawyer, Nicholas Lyons, and Fabian Wildenstein

2014: Xinda Hu

2013: Tzu-Yu Wu

2010: Joshua Kim 

2009: Dewen Cheng

2008: Rob Bates

2007: Joshua Jin Kim