Lei Tian
APPOINTMENTS
Boston University
Electrical and Computer Engineering (07/2016 – present)
Biomedical Engineering
Photonics Center
BU Neurophotonics Center
BU Center for Information & System Engineering
Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center
University of California, Berkeley
Postdoc, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (07/2013 – 06/2016)
Advisor: Laura Waller
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. (01/2010 – 06/2013)
Advisor: George Barbastathis
Thesis: Compressive phase retrieval
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. (08/2008 – 01/2010)
Advisor: George Barbastathis
Thesis: Phase-space representation of digital holographic and light field imaging with application to two-phase flows
Tsinghua University
B.S. (09/2004 – 06/2008)
HONORS & AWARDS
- Fellow, Scialog: Advancing BioImaging, 2023
- 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
- Boston University College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award, 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, 2017
- Boston University 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
- Gold Prize Project for Undergraduate Student Research Training,Tsinghua University, 2007
- Daimler Chrysler Scholarship,Tsinghua University, 2005
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial:
- Associate Editor of Biological Imaging, the Cambridge University Press, 12/2020 – present
- Associate Editor of OSA Optics Letters, 09/2020 – present
- Guest Editor of special issue on Computational Microscopy in Optics Communications, 2/2020 – present
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 11/2019 – present
- Associate Editor of OSA Applied Optics, 03/2016 – 03/2019
- Guest Editor of special section on Optical Computational Imaging in SPIE Optical Engineering, 04/2016 – 04/2017
- Guest Editor of Springer Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging in the area of inline holography, Ptychography and other variants of wavefront sensing with photons, electrons, or neutrons, 06/2016 – present
Technical Committee:
- 10/2018 – present, Technical Committee Member of IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee.
- 01/2017 – 10/2018, Technical Committee Member of IEEE Computational Imaging Special Interest Group
Conference Chair:
- 2018, OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, Mathematics in Imaging
- 2016 – present, SPIE Commercial+Scientific Sensing & Imaging Symposium, Computational Imaging
- 2015 OSA/APS Annual Laser Science Conference, Computational Optical Imaging
Conference Area Chair:
- 2018, Industry Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)
Program Committee Member:
- 2016 – present, OSA Digital Holography & 3D Imaging conference
- 2016 – present, SPIE Defense + Security Symposium, Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays
- 2017 – present, SPIE Defense + Security Symposium, Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications
- 2016 – present, SPIE Photonics West BiOS, High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and Big Data Management
- 2016 – present, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)
- 2016 – present, SPIE Photonics Asia, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology