Biography:Laura Waller
Laura Waller | |
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.jpg) Waller speaks at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data, Society and Inference Seminar in 2015 | |
| Born | Laura Ann Waller |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MEng, PhD) |
| Awards | National Science Foundation CAREER Award Adolph Lomb Medal (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Berkeley Institute for Data Science Princeton University University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Computational phase imaging based on intensity transport (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Barbastathis[1] |
| Website | laurawaller |
Laura Ann Waller is a Canadian-American computer scientist and the Ted Van Duzer Endowed Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Computational Imaging Lab.[2][3] Her research focuses on computational imaging, developing techniques that integrate optical hardware design with computational processing to advance microscopy and phase imaging. She is a Fellow of The Optical Society and a senior fellow of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.[4]
Early life and education
Waller grew up in Kingston, Ontario, where she attended Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School.[5][6] She pursued all three of her degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2004 and a Master's degree in 2005.[5] During her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the University of Cambridge as part of the Cambridge–MIT Institute.[5] Her Master's thesis examined the design of feedback loops and experimental testing techniques for integrated optics.[5]
While at MIT, Waller was active in campus life: she played on the Women's Varsity soccer team, served as president of The Optical Society student chapter, and participated in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) programme.[7][8][9]
She completed her doctorate in 2010 under the supervision of George Barbastathis, with a thesis that developed new techniques to image phase and amplitude.[10][1]
Career and research
Following her doctorate, Waller joined Princeton University in 2010 as a research associate and lecturer.[9] She moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, where she was awarded tenure in 2016.[11]
Waller's research group specialises in computational imaging, an approach that integrates optical system design with computational processing.[3][12] Their work spans phase imaging, super-resolution microscopy, and lensless imaging, with applications in both biomedical and industrial sciences.[13][14][15] She has developed machine learning techniques for 3D microscopy and her group maintains open source software for imaging applications.[16][17]
In 2014, she received both a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship and a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator award.[18][19] Her National Science Foundation CAREER Award supports her research group's work building computational and experimental software for imaging 4D partially spatially coherent light.[20] In 2017, she was awarded an investigator award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop microscopes capable of imaging deep structures within the brain.[21]
Waller was recognised as one of the MIT EECS Rising Stars in 2018.[22]
Awards and honours
- 2021 Adolph Lomb Medal, for important contributions to the advancement of computational microscopy and its applications[23]
- 2019 Fellow of The Optical Society[24]
- 2018 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in Academia[15]
- 2016 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Junior Faculty[25]
- 2016 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computational Photography[26]
- 2012 Ivan P. Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize, The Optical Society[8][27]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Waller, Laura Anne (2010). Computational phase imaging based on intensity transport (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/60821. OCLC 696796127.
- ↑ "Computational Imaging Lab »". http://www.laurawaller.com.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ "Laura Waller" (in en). https://bids.berkeley.edu/people/laura-waller.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Waller, Laura A. (2005). Feedback loop design and experimental testing for integrated optics with micro-mechanical tuning (MEng thesis). OCLC 62558888.
- ↑ "Holy Cross graduate receives $1.5M grant". The Kingston Whig-Standard. Postmedia. October 8, 2014. https://www.thewhig.com/2014/10/08/holy-cross-graduate-receives-15m-grant.
- ↑ "MIT Women's Technology Program". http://wtp.mit.edu/eecs/staff2006.html.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "OSA Names Inaugural Outstanding Young Professionals". 2012-02-07. https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2012/osa_names_inaugural_outstanding_young_professional/.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Professor Laura Waller". Stanford University. 2012-12-11. https://scien.stanford.edu/index.php/professor-laura-waller/.
- ↑ "Laura Waller | EECS at UC Berkeley" (in en). https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/waller.html.
- ↑ Waller, Laura (2016). "Laura gets tenure! » Computational Imaging Lab" (in en-US). http://www.laurawaller.com/7116-laura-gets-tenure/.
- ↑ SPIETV (2015-05-29), Laura Waller: Integrating optics and processing in design of imaging systems, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEKhC_pZMXk, retrieved 2018-08-22
- ↑ "Research » Computational Imaging Lab" (in en-US). http://www.laurawaller.com/research/.
- ↑ CITRIS (2017-03-08), Computational Microscopy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCGnxRoUr4, retrieved 2018-08-22
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Laura Waller honored with SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Academia". https://spie.org/about-spie/press-room/press-releases/laura-waller-honored-with-spie-early-career-achievement-award-%E2%80%93-academia?SSO=1.
- ↑ Waller, Laura; Tian, Lei (2015). "Computational imaging: Machine learning for 3D microscopy" (in En). Nature 523 (7561): 416–417. doi:10.1038/523416a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26201593. Bibcode: 2015Natur.523..416W. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n25n0c0.
- ↑ "Open Source » Computational Imaging Lab" (in en-US). http://www.laurawaller.com/opensource/.
- ↑ "2014 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Eighteen Researchers - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation" (in en-US). The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 2014-10-15. http://www.packard.org/2014/10/2014-packard-fellowships-in-science-and-engineering-awarded-to-eighteen-researchers/.
- ↑ "Home - Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation" (in en). http://www.moore.org/programs/science/data-driven-discovery/investigators.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1351896 - CAREER:Optical Coherence Engineering". https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1351896.
- ↑ "CZ Biohub awards nearly $14.5 million to Berkeley researchers" (in en-US). Berkeley News. 2017-02-08. http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/08/cz-biohub-awards-nearly-14-5-million-to-berkeley-researchers/.
- ↑ "Laura Waller" (in en-US). EECS Rising Stars 2018. https://risingstars18-eecs.mit.edu/speaker-waller/.
- ↑ "Adolph Lomb Medal". https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/adolphlomb/.
- ↑ "OSA Fellow Profiles". 2020-05-11. https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/fellow_profiles/laura_waller/.
- ↑ "Award Recipients | Graduate Mentoring Awards" (in en-US). http://mentoringawards.berkeley.edu/award-recipients/.
- ↑ "ICCP 2016 | International Conference on Computational Photography" (in en-US). http://compphotolab.northwestern.edu/ICCP2016/.
- ↑ "Ivan P. Kaminow Prize". 2020-05-11. https://www.osa.org/en-us/foundation/competitions_prizes/ivan_p_kaminow_outstanding_early_career_profession/.
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