Lei Tian, PhD Associate Professor (ECE, BME)
Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010Primary Appointment Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest Computational imaging and sensing
Computational microscopy
Imaging in scattering media
Phase retrieval
Neurophotonics
Publications
Honors and Awards Optica Fellow, 2025
Early Career Excellence in Research, BU College of Engineering, 2021
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Boston University, 2019
Dean’s Catalyst Award, College of Engineering, Boston University, 2018
The Fumio Okano Best 3D Paper Prize, SPIE Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display conference, Apr. 2018
Invited Participant, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Nov. 2017
Nanotechnology Pilot Grant Award, Boston University Nanotechnology Innovation Center, 2017
Best Paper Award, OSA Imaging Systems and Applications, Seattle, WA, 2014
Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award, OSA Frontier in Optics, San Jose, CA, 2011
Topical Editor, Optics Letters (09/2020 – present)
Topical Editor, Applied Optics (04/2016 – 05/2019)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (11/2019 – present)
Classes Taught EC401 Signals & Systems
EC522 Computational Optical Imaging
Additional Affiliations Neurophotonics Center
Photonics Center
Center for Information & System Engineering
Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
Nanotechnology Innovation Center
Department of Biomedical Engineering
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