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Laura Waller

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Laura Waller
Waller speaks at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data, Society and Inference Seminar in 2015
Born
Laura Ann Waller
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MEng, PhD)
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Princeton University
University of Cambridge
ThesisComputational phase imaging based on intensity transport (2010)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Barbastathis[1]
Websitelaurawaller.com

Laura Ann Waller is a computer scientist and Ted Van Duzer Endowed Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3] She was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Fellowship to develop microscopes to image deep structures within the brain in 2017 and won the 2018 SPIE Early Career Award.

Early life and education

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Waller is from Kingston, Ontario.[4] She studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2004 and her Masters in 2005. During her undergraduate study she spent a year at the University of Cambridge as part of the Cambridge–MIT Institute.[4] Her Masters thesis considered the design of feedback loops and experimental testing techniques for integrated optics.[4] In 2010 she completed her doctoral studies under the supervision of George Barbastathis[5] where her thesis investigated developed new techniques to image phase and amplitude.[1] She was a Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) student.[6] She played on the MIT Women's Varsity soccer team and was president of The Optical Society student chapter.[7][8]

Career and research

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Waller works on computational imaging.[3][9] She joined Princeton University in 2010, where she worked as a research associate and lecturer.[6] She joined University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Her research group focus on phase imaging, super-resolution microscopy and lensless imaging.[10][11] She is a senior fellow of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.[12]

Waller was named as one of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow in 2014.[13] That year she was also awarded a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator.[14] She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award holder, allowing her research group to build computational and experimental software for imaging 4D partially spatially coherent light.[15] She has developed machine learning techniques for 3D microscopy.[16] She was awarded tenure at University of California, Berkeley in 2016.[17] In 2017 Waller was awarded an investigator award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.[18] Waller was awarded the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in Academia in January 2018.[19] Through the development of hardware for computational imaging, Waller has made several contributions to biomedical and industrial sciences.[19] Her group develop open source software for imaging.[20] She was one of the MIT EECS Rising Stars for 2018.[21]

Awards and honors

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  • 2019 Fellow of The Optical Society[22]
  • 2018 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in Academia[19]
  • 2016 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Junior Faculty[23]
  • 2016 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computational Photography[24]
  • 2012 The Optical Society Ivan P. Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize [8][25]
  • 2021 The Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Medal for important contributions to the advancement of computational microscopy and its applications[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b Waller, Laura Anne (2010). Computational phase imaging based on intensity transport (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/60821. OCLC 696796127. Free access icon
  2. ^ "Computational Imaging Lab »". www.laurawaller.com.
  3. ^ a b Laura Waller publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ a b c Waller, Laura A. (2005). Feedback loop design and experimental testing for integrated optics with micro-mechanical tuning (MEng thesis). OCLC 62558888.
  5. ^ "Laura Waller | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  6. ^ a b "Professor Laura Waller". stanford.edu. Stanford University. 2012-12-11. Archived from the original on 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  7. ^ "MIT Women's Technology Program". wtp.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  8. ^ a b "OSA Names Inaugural Outstanding Young Professionals". OSA. 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  9. ^ SPIETV (2015-05-29), Laura Waller: Integrating optics and processing in design of imaging systems, retrieved 2018-08-22
  10. ^ "Research » Computational Imaging Lab". laurawaller.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  11. ^ CITRIS (2017-03-08), "Computational Microscopy", youtube.com, retrieved 2018-08-22
  12. ^ "Laura Waller". Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  13. ^ "2014 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Eighteen Researchers - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  14. ^ "Home - Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation". www.moore.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  15. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1351896 - CAREER:Optical Coherence Engineering". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  16. ^ Waller, Laura; Tian, Lei (2015). "Computational imaging: Machine learning for 3D microscopy". Nature. 523 (7561): 416–417. Bibcode:2015Natur.523..416W. doi:10.1038/523416a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26201593. Free access icon
  17. ^ Waller, Laura (2016). "Laura gets tenure! » Computational Imaging Lab". laurawaller.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  18. ^ "CZ Biohub awards nearly $14.5 million to Berkeley researchers". Berkeley News. 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  19. ^ a b c "Laura Waller honored with SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Academia". spie.org. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  20. ^ "Open Source » Computational Imaging Lab". laurawaller.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  21. ^ "Laura Waller". EECS Rising Stars 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  22. ^ "OSA Fellow Profiles". The Optical Society. 2020-05-11.
  23. ^ "Award Recipients | Graduate Mentoring Awards". mentoringawards.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  24. ^ "ICCP 2016 | International Conference on Computational Photography". compphotolab.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  25. ^ "Ivan P. Kaminow Prize". The Optical Society. 2020-05-11.
  26. ^ "Adolph Lomb Medal". OSA.
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