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Ryan Hastings

Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1981
Advanced Optical Sensing TechnologiesRandom lasers and scattering mediaOptical Imaging and Spectroscopy TechniquesAtmospheric aerosols and cloudsComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques

Publications

17

Citations

15

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

45

Publishing since 1981

Research summary
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Ryan Hastings works on optical imaging methods for seeing through fog, smoke, and other heavily light-scattering environments, using laser speckle patterns (the grainy interference patterns produced when coherent light scatters off rough or turbulent media) and object motion to detect, locate, and image hidden or moving objects. This work combines laser physics, optics, and computational imaging techniques, with applications such as fog-chamber testing and sensing through scattering aerosols.

Imaging through scattering media (fog, aerosols)Laser speckle correlation techniquesMotion-based and structured illumination imagingSuper-resolution optical sensingComputational imaging for object localization

Publication output rose from essentially none before 2019 to a peak of six items in 2021, then settled into a steadier pace of one to three publications per year through 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
17182019: 1 publication192020: 1 publication202021: 6 publications6212022: 3 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 3 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics×3
  • Optica×1
  • Physical review. A/Physical review, A×1
  • Optics Letters×1
  • Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science APS/DLS×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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