Luke Hellwig
PhD Student in Color Science
Skills
MATLAB
Adobe Suite
Python
Arduino
Microsoft Suite

I’m a Color Science PhD student with excellent programming skills and a strong research background. I’m interesting in understanding visual perception and applying that knowledge to color technology.

Publications
Luke Hellwig, Mark D. Fairchild
Using Gaussian Spectra to Derive a Hue-linear Color Space2020

Journal of Perceptual Imaging (preprint)

Xingyue Peng, Yiming Yang, Yasen Hou, Henry C. Travaglini, Luke Hellwig, Sahar Hihath, Klaus van Benthem, Kathleen Lee, Weifeng Liu, and Dong Yu
Efficient and Hysteresis-Free Field Effect Modulation of Ambipolarly Doped Vanadium Dioxide Nanowires2016

Physical Review Applied 5, 054008
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.5.054008

 

Education
PhD in Color Science
Munsell Color Science Laboratory, RIT2018-Present

Projects:

– Studying object color perception under variable illumination conditions.
– Using Gaussian spectra to derive a hue-linear color space.
– Developing colorimetry algorithms for camera-based color measurement device
.
– Visually coherent warm-CCT nighttime computer graphics rendering.
– Computational modeling of human visual contrast sensitivity using ISETBIO.

Skills:
Matlab, Psychophysics, Colorimetry, Image Processing, Color Spaces/Color Management, Visual Perception.

Expected completion of degree in 2022.

The Art Students League of New York2015-2018

– Awarded Ruth Katzman Merit Scholarship for Abstract Art.
– Designed and built Arduino-based light sculpture.

BA in Physics
Carleton College2011-2015

– Graduated summa cum laude.
– Senior thesis on photon up-conversion and down-conversion in solar cells
.
– Advanced coursework in Physics, Mathematics, English, and Spanish.
– Exemplary rating on Sophomore Writing Portfolio.

Reseach Experience
GRA Color Metrology Specialist
Munsell Color Science Laboratory, RIT2020-Present

– Teach students how to use color measurement equipment.
– Created and contribute to departmental Github repository for color science MATLAB code
.
– Maintain and track lab equipment.

REU Student Researcher
UC Davis Physics Department2014

– Designed and fabricated VO2 nanowires.
– Characterized electronic behavior of nanowires with scanning photocurrent microscopy.

– Delivered 15-minute presentation to department on research findings
– Discovery of ambipolar VO2 led to publication in Phys. Rev. Appl.

Student Researcher
Carleton College Physics Department2012-2013

– Pioneered new growth method for EuO think films for this lab.
– Used glancing incidence X-ray diffraction to verify composition of thin films.

– Presented research posters at 2013 and 2014 American Physical Society March Meetings.

Work Experience
Math & Physics Tutor, Director Level
Tutor Associates2016-2018

– Tutored middle- and high-school students one-on-one in academic subjects and standardized tests.
– Trained and advised incoming tutors to implement learni
ng tools.
– Promoted twice, up to highest level of tutor at the firm, due to positive client feedback.
– Discovery of ambipolar VO2 led to publication in Phys. Rev. Appl.