Alan Hsu

Dr. Alan Hsu is an assistant leader in the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He provides technical leadership of electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors, systems, and image processing for critical applications such as wide-area surveillance for threat detection.

Hsu joined Lincoln Laboratory in 2011 as a technical staff member working on systems analysis, optical signature and background modeling, imager characterization, and surveillance architectures in the Advanced Capabilities and Systems Group. In 2018, he provided leadership to the digital-pixel focal plane array (DFPA) team in the Advanced Imager Group, successfully leading and transitioning DFPA technology to several programs with U.S. Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) sponsors and with other Laboratory division partners for U.S. Army applications. In 2020, he led the development and daily operation of a wide-area fever-scanning system that remotely measured the temperature of multiple incoming people to the Laboratory as part of its COVID-19 screening approach. 

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, Hsu was a principal technical staff member at Sandia National Laboratories from 2003 to 2011, first working on the development of photonic integrated circuits and lasers and then multispectral imager characterization and architecture analysis for space applications. Hsu received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively.