Lei Tian, PhD

Associate Professor (ECE, BME)

Office 8 St. Mary’s St Boston, MA 02215, PHO 830
Email leitian@bu.edu
Phone (617) 353-1334
Website Computational Imaging Systems Lab

In the News

Evidence-Based Hope
May 18, 2026
In a pair of ceremonies leading up to BU Commencement, the College of Engineering celebrated the Class of 2026. [ More ]

Publications

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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

Departments or Divisions: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Affiliations: Materials by Design, Neuroscience & Neuroengineering, Photonics & Optical Systems, Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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