George Barbastathis
George Barbastathis received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993 from the National Technical University of Athens (Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο) and the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 1997, respectively, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). After post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined […]
Randy Bartels
Randy A. Bartels is an investigator of the Morgridge Institute for Research and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prof. Bartels has been awarded the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Sloan Research Fellowship in physics, an Office of […]
Liang Gao
Dr. Liang Gao is a Professor of Bioengineering at UCLA. His lab develops high-speed, multidimensional optical imaging technologies—combining computational optics, novel sensing, and advanced reconstruction—to probe dynamic biological systems in vivo. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nature, Nature Methods, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS. He is the […]
Rajesh Menon
Rajesh Menon is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univ. of Utah and Chief Technology Officer of Oblate Optics, which is commercializing flat-optics technologies pioneered in his laboratory. His research combines nanofabrication, computational design, and optical engineering to develop inverse-designed photonics, flat lenses, and unconventional imaging systems. He holds more than 45 […]
John Miao
Jianwei (John) Miao is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. He pioneered computational microscopy by unifying crystallography with microscopy using coherent diffraction and algorithms, replacing lenses with computation. In 1999, he achieved the first experimental coherent diffractive imaging, laying the foundation for modern ptychography and transforming nanoscale and atomic-scale imaging across synchrotrons, XFELs, HHG, […]
Laura Waller
Laura Waller is the Charles A. Desoer Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She received B.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004, 2005 and 2010. Following her doctorate, she held the role of Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer of Physics at Princeton University from 2010-2012. She […]