Gavin Guo

Papers

Publications, patents, and selected projects.

Publications

AI and Language Models

Optics, Imaging, and Applied Physics

Patents

  • Pupil Engineering Method to Enhance the Signal of the Real-Time Determination of Particle Size Distribution in Powders
    Qihang Zhang, Ajinkya Pandit, Allan S. Myerson, George Barbastathis, Janaka C. Gamekkanda Gamaethige, Richard D. Braatz, Zhen Guo. US Patent Application 18/845,719 (2025).

    Pupil design that boosts the speckle signal used for real-time particle sizing.

  • System and Method for Real-Time Determination of Particle Size Distributions in Dry Powders
    Qihang Zhang, Ajinkya Pandit, Allan S. Myerson, George Barbastathis, Janaka C. Gamekkanda Gamaethige, Richard D. Braatz, Zhen Guo. US Patent Application 18/845,766 (2025).

    Optical system and method for real-time particle size distribution in dry powders.

Projects and Workshops

  • Gen-VQA: Generative Visual Question Answering with Abstract Scenes
    Yifan Yang, Zhen Guo. MIT 6.869 Advances in Computer Vision, Fall 2019.

    Answer questions about abstract scenes by generating the scene, not just classifying it.

  • Hardware Efficient Quantum Computing via Circuit Decomposition
    Tianyi Peng, Linsen Li, Kaidong Peng, Yufeng Ye, Zhen Guo. iQuHACK MIT Quantum Hackathon (first place), Winter 2019. First place, iQuHACK 2019

    Decompose circuits to fit the target hardware's native gates and connectivity.