Florian Willomitzer is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Northwestern University, IL. He graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics with honors (‘summa cum laude’) in 2017. During his doctoral studies (PhD advisor: Prof. Gerd Häusler) Florian investigated physical and information theoretical limits of optical 3D-sensing and implemented sensors that operate close to these limits. Concurrent with his Ph.D. activity, he was a freelancer in the research group’s spin-off company ‘3D Shape GmbH’ (now part of ISRA Vision) and he worked as a high school part time teacher for physics. Florian joined Northwestern University as Postdoc (Postdoc advisor: Prof. Oliver Cossairt) in Fall 2017, where he further shaped his current research profile. He became Research Assistant Professor in 2019.
Florian is General Chair of the OSA COSI conference, Optics Chair of the IEEE ICCP conference, and served/serves as reviewer for IEEE, OSA, SPIE, CVPR, and the Nature Portfolio. He is a recipient of the NSF CRII grant and his Ph.D. thesis was awarded with the Springer Theses Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Research.
He is currently teaching the courses ‘CS331: Introduction to Computational Photography’, ‘EE420: Digital Image Processing’, and ‘EE395/495: Computational Photography Seminar