Gender: Male
Title: Permanent Associate Professor/Special Researcher
Education: Doctoral student
Discipline: Optical Engineering
Research interests: Optical Design, free-form surface Optics, Optical and Computational Imaging, Diffraction and Micro and Nano Optics, Augmented Reality display
E-mail: yangtong@bit.edu.cn
Yang Tong, male, Doctor, Associate Professor/Special Researcher, doctoral supervisor, School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology. He has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of optical imaging and optical design for a long time, and his main research directions include optical design, free-form surface optics, optical and computational imaging, diffraction and micro and nano optics, augmented reality display, etc.

Yang Tong, male, Doctor, Associate Professor/Special Researcher, doctoral supervisor, School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology. He has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of optical imaging and optical design for a long time, and his main research directions include optical design, free-form surface optics, optical and computational imaging, diffraction and micro and nano optics, augmented reality display, etc.
He has presided over national key research and development projects, National Natural Science Foundation projects and youth projects, Beijing Natural Science Foundation projects and other national and provincial projects, as well as a number of horizontal projects in cooperation with research institutes/enterprises. Published more than 50 papers, among which the first or corresponding author in Light: Science & Applications, Optics Express, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Applied Optics, JOSA A and other journals published 25 SCI papers. It has obtained more than 40 authorized invention patents, including 16 U.S. patents. He has won the Jin Guofan Young Student Award and the National Excellent doctoral dissertation in optical engineering. Selected in the 5th China Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Lifting project (Green care).
He taught the undergraduate courses "Optical System Design and Technology" and "Complex variable Functions and Mathematical Equations", and the graduate course "Optical free-form surface Technology". The graduate students under my guidance have won many honorary titles such as national scholarships, municipal and university-level outstanding graduates, excellent dissertation, or won awards in optical design competitions.
OPTICA, SPIE, EOS member. Light: Science & Applications, Optics Express, Applied Optics, JOSA A, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Optics and Laser Technology and other nearly 20 journal reviewers.
Lab website: bitopiclab.com

Optical Design, Freeform Optics, Optical and Computational Imaging, Diffraction and micro and Nano Optics, augmented reality display, Machine learning, etc.

2008.09-2012.06, Tianjin University, (Optoelectronics) Information Engineering, Bachelor;
2012.08-2017.07, PhD, Optical Engineering, Tsinghua University.

2017.08-2022.07, Pre-appointed Assistant Professor/Special Associate Researcher, School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology;
07/2022.-present, Associate Professor/Special Researcher, School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology.

【 National and provincial research projects 】
01. National Key Research and Development Plan, Full-color Micro-LED AR glasses System integration technology, 2022-2025;
02. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on Key Technologies of Free-form Surface Imaging System Design Based on Machine Learning, 2023-2026;
3. Beijing Natural Science Foundation Project, Design and Research of Augmented Reality Display System Based on Free wave Front controlled Holographic Elements, 2022-2024;
04. Young Talent Lift Project of China Association for Science and Technology, Freeform Surface Imaging Optical System Design, 2019-2021;
05. National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project, Design and Research of Structural Compact Free-form Surface Reflection Imaging System, 2019-2021;
【 Paper 】
01.Tong Yang, Lina Gao, Dewen Cheng*, and Yongtian Wang, "Design method of imaging optical systems using confocal flat phase elements," Optics Express, 30, 45895-45909 (2022);
02.Tong Yang, Yongdong Wang, Dongwei Ni, Dewen Cheng*, and Yongtian Wang, "Design of off-axis reflective imaging systems based on freeform holographic elements," Optics Express, 30, 20117-20134 (2022);
03.Tong Yang, Lijun Zhou, Dewen Cheng*, and Yongtian Wang, "Designing reflective imaging systems with multiple-surfaces-integrated elements using a Gaussian function freeform surface," Applied Optics, 61, 5215-5225 (2022);
04.Wenchen Chen, Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang, 04.Wenchen Chen, Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang, "Generating starting points for designing freeform imaging optical systems based on deep learning," Optics Express, 29, 27845-27870 (2021). (Editors' Pick);
05.Junhao Ni, Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang, "Design method of wide field-of-view imaging systems using Gaussian radial basis functions freeform surfaces," Applied Optics, 60, 4491-4501 (2021);
06.Tong Yang, Dewen Cheng*, Yongtian Wang, "Designing freeform imaging systems based on reinforcement learning," Optics Express, 28, 30309-30323 (2020);
07. Yang Tong, Duan Maya Zhe, Cheng Dewen, Wang Yongtian *. "Design of optical system for free-form surface imaging: Theory, Development and Application," Acta Optica Sinica, 41(1): 71-764. 0108001, 2020. (Invited review, Chief Editor's Recommendation Award of China Laser Magazine in 2021, Top 10 Download of Acta Optica in 2021);
08.Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang, "Direct generation of starting points for freeform off-axis three-mirror imaging system design using neural network based deep learning," Optics Express, 27, 17228-17238 (2019);
09.Junhao Ni, Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang, "Description and tolerance analysis of freeform surface figure error using specific-probability-distributed Gaussian radial basis functions," Optics Express, 27, 31820-31839 (2019);
10.Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang*, "Design method of nonsymmetric imaging systems consisting of multiple flat phase elements," Optics Express, 26, 25347-25363 (2018);
11.Yingzhe Duan, Tong Yang*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang, "Design method for nonsymmetric imaging optics consisting of freeform-surface-substrate phase elements," Optics Express, 28, 1603-1620 (2020);
12.Tong Yang, Dewen Cheng*, and Yongtian Wang, "Aberration analysis for freeform surface terms overlay on general decentered and tilted optical surfaces," Optics Express, 26, 7751-7770 (2018);
13.Tong Yang, Guofan Jin, and Jun Zhu*, "Automated design of freeform imaging systems," Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17081 (2017). (Journal of Nature, 2021 Impact factor 20.257);
14.Tong Yang, Jun Zhu*, Xiaofei Wu, and Guofan Jin, "Direct design of freeform surfaces and freeform imaging systems with a point-by-point three-dimensional construction-iteration method," Optics Express, 23, 10233-10246 (2015);
15.Tong Yang, Jun Zhu*, Wei Hou, and Guofan Jin, "Design method of freeform off-axis reflective imaging systems with a direct construction process," Optics Express, 22, 9193-9205 (2014).