Biography:Mini Das
Mini Das is an Indian and American interdisciplinary applied physicist and engineer specializing in image processing, with applications in biology, medicine, and materials science. She is a Moores Professor at the University of Houston, with appointments in the departments of physics, biomedical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering.[1]
Education and career
Das has a 1998 master's degree in optoelectronics and lasers from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in India. She completed a Ph.D. in 2003 at IIT Delhi, with a dissertation on inverse scattering transforms that also involved work as a visiting researcher at Bell Labs.[2]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut, and then beginning in at the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. She obtained a regular-rank assistant professorship in radiology at UMass in 2010, before moving to the University of Houston as an assistant professor in 2011.[2]
Recognition
Das was named as a Fellow of SPIE in 2022, and as a 2026 Fellow of Optica.[3] Her Optica fellowship honored her "for pioneering contributions to low-coherence X-ray phase retrieval, imaging system development, spectral X-ray computed tomography, and image perception".[4]
References
- ↑ "Mini Das", Physics faculty profiles (University of Houston), https://www.uh.edu/nsm/physics/people/profiles/mini-das/index.php, retrieved 2026-04-10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Candidate biographies", IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Election (IEEE): p. 9, 2014, https://ieee-npss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2016-NPSS-Election-Candidates.pdf, retrieved 2026-04-10
- ↑ Smith, Kristoffer (December 1, 2025), "Mini Das Named 2026 Optica Fellow", News & Events (University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics), https://www.uh.edu/nsm/news-events/stories/2025/1201-optica-fellow.php, retrieved 2026-04-10
- ↑ "Meet the 2026 Optica Fellows", Elected Fellows (Optica), https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/, retrieved 2026-04-10
External links
- Imaging Innovations Laboratory (Das Laboratory)
- Mini Das publications indexed by Google Scholar
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