Welcome! My name is William Li. I am currently a medical student at Harvard in the MD-PhD program working with Xiaowei Zhuang on 3D-genome imaging of the human brain. I completed my undergraduate studies at MIT, where I double majored in physics and computer science and worked on research with the groups of Marin Soljačić, Steven Johnson, and Manolis Kellis. My interests lie in the development of imaging and computational methods to study neurological diseases.

You can learn more about my work on the Research page and view my published papers under Publications. For more about me, please see my CV, Google Scholar, and LinkedIn. Feel free to reach out by email if you would like to get in touch.

Selected publications

Li WF, Arya G, Roques-Carmes C, Lin Z, Johnson SG, Soljačić M
Transcending shift-invariance in the paraxial regime via end-to-end inverse design of freeform nanophotonics

In Optics Express, 2023.

We present a method for the nanophotonic inverse design of compact imaging systems whose resolution is not constrained by paraxial shift-invariance. Our design is done end-to-end, integrating density-based full-Maxwell topology optimization with a fully iterative elastic-net reconstruction algorithm.

CitePDF

@article{li2023transcending,
 author = {Li, William F and Arya, Gaurav and Roques-Carmes, Charles and Lin, Zin and Johnson, Steven G and Soljačić, Marin},
 year = {2023},
 month = {07},
 pages = {24260-24272},
 title = {Transcending shift-invariance in the paraxial regime via end-to-end inverse design of freeform nanophotonics},
 volume = {31},
 journal = {Optics Express},
 doi = {10.1364/OE.492553}
 }