Höft, Thomas

Biography

Thomas Höft is an applied mathematician with research interests focusing on inverse problems in imaging. Prior to joining UST, he was a postdoc at Tufts University, a visitor at NIST, and spent the five years before that working in industry R&D at Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies just outside Boulder, CO. In his "spare" time, he can be found hiking, playing ultimate, banging on drums, or hanging out with his family. He misses the mountains but is glad to be around lakes again.

Research Interest

Inverse problems in imaging with applications to science and industry, though I'll work on most anything combining science, computing, and mathematics. Currently, I have active research projects in de-noising of remote sensing images, image formation for computational photography, automatic identification of bird song, and fast multipole methods for molecular dynamics simulations. While in industry, I worked on modeling and image analysis for laser RADAR systems, with projects ranging from image formation and reconstruction to phenomenology of laser scattering from airborne particulates. My Ph.D. thesis work used regularization techniques on inverse problems in imaging with applications to nondestructive evaluation of materials in industrial manufacturing processes.