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Assistant Professor, Northwestern University 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics and Astronomy (CIERA) | BOBA Group (Wang Exoplanet Imaging Lab) @ Northwestern
Summary:

Wang's BOBA group directly images young, self-luminous exoplanets by suppressing host-star glare with coronagraphy, extreme adaptive optics, and long-baseline optical interferometry (e.g. Keck/KPIC, VLTI), combined with physics-based computational signal-processing and machine-learning algorithms to extract faint planetary signals. He led early JWST direct-imaging detections of exoplanets and studies their orbits, formation, and atmospheres via high- and low-resolution spectroscopy. This is offered as an astronomy pivot on the filter: the enabling technology is increasingly complex opto-mechanical and computational instrumentation pushing spatial and spectral resolution, rather than a quantum sensor per se.

Created at: July 10, 2026, 2:45 a.m. Updated at: July 10, 2026, 2:45 a.m. Metadata: Reviewed July 2026 via Northwestern CIERA and jasonwang.space.