{"id":218,"date":"2016-08-13T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:53:44","slug":"lei-tian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/people\/lei-tian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lei Tian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>APPOINTMENTS<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Boston University<\/strong><br \/>\nElectrical and Computer Engineering (07\/2016 \u2013 present)<br \/>\nBiomedical Engineering<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/\">Photonics Center<br \/>\n<\/a><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/\">BU Neurophotonics Center<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/\">BU Center for Information &amp; System Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/\">Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<br \/>\n<\/a><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/\">BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>Postdoc<\/strong>, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (07\/2013 &#8211; 06\/2016)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Advisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurawaller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Waller<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>EDUCATION<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D.<\/strong>\u00a0 (01\/2010 &#8211; 06\/2013)<br \/>\nAdvisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/meche.mit.edu\/people\/faculty\/gbarb@mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Barbastathis<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Thesis<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/81756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Compressive phase retrieval<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>M.S.<\/strong>\u00a0(08\/2008 &#8211; 01\/2010)<br \/>\nAdvisor: George Barbastathis<br \/>\nThesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/57789#files-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phase-space representation of digital holographic and light field imaging with\u00a0application to two-phase flows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tsinghua University\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>B.S.<\/strong>\u00a0(09\/2004 &#8211; 06\/2008)<\/p>\n<h4><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>HONORS &amp; AWARDS<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Provost\u2019s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award, Boston University, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, Optica, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, Scialog: Advancing BioImaging, 2023<\/li>\n<li><em>Early Career Excellence in Research<\/em>, BU College of Engineering, 2021<\/li>\n<li><em>NSF CAREER Award, <\/em>2019<\/li>\n<li><em>Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award, <\/em>Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering, Boston University, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Boston University College of Engineering Dean&#8217;s Catalyst Award, 2018<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/conferences-and-exhibitions\/defense--commercial-sensing\/highlights-photos-and-more\/best-3d-paper-awards?SSO=1\">The Fumio Okano Best 3D Paper Prize<\/a>, SPIE Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display conference, Apr. 2018<\/li>\n<li>Invited Participant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naefrontiers.org\/Symposia\/USFOE\/17105\/54726.aspx\">National Academy of Engineering (NAE) EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium<\/a>, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Boston University Nanotechnology Pilot Grant Award, Boston University Nanotechnology Innovation Center, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Best Paper Award, OSA Imaging Systems and Applications, Seattle, WA, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osa.org\/en-us\/foundation\/competitions_prizes\/#40976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award<\/a>, OSA Frontier in Optics, San Jose, CA, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Gold Prize Project for Undergraduate Student Research Training,Tsinghua University, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Daimler Chrysler Scholarship,Tsinghua University, 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>PROFESSIONAL SERVICE<\/h4>\n<h5>Editorial:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/biological-imaging\">Biological Imaging<\/a>, <span>the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/\">Cambridge University Press<\/a>, 12\/2020 &#8211; present<\/li>\n<li><strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> of OSA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osapublishing.org\/ol\/home.cfm\">Optics Letters<\/a>, 09\/2020 &#8211; present<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guest Editor<\/strong> of special issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/optics-communications\/call-for-papers\/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-computational-microscopy\">Computational Microscopy<\/a> in Optics Communications, 2\/2020 &#8211; present<\/li>\n<li><strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/signalprocessingsociety.org\/publications-resources\/ieee-transactions-computational-imaging\">IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging<\/a>, 11\/2019 &#8211; present<\/li>\n<li><strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> of OSA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osapublishing.org\/ao\/home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Applied Optics,<\/a> 03\/2016 &#8211; 03\/2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guest Editor<\/strong> of special section on <a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/publications\/journals\/optical-engineering\/oe-editorial-schedule?wt.mc_id=zpublicationgb#Computational_Imaging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Optical Computational Imaging in SPIE Optical Engineering<\/a>, 04\/2016 \u2013 04\/2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guest Editor<\/strong> of Springer Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/ascimaging.springeropen.com\/ih\">inline holography, Ptychography and other variants of wavefront sensing with photons, electrons, or neutrons<\/a>, 06\/2016 &#8211; present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong><em>Technical Committee:<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>10\/2018 \u2013 present,\u00a0Technical Committee Member of <a href=\"https:\/\/signalprocessingsociety.org\/get-involved\/computational-imaging\/home\"><strong>IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>01\/2017 \u2013 10\/2018, Technical Committee Member of <strong>IEEE Computational Imaging Special Interest Group<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Conference Chair:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span>2018, OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osa.org\/en-us\/meetings\/osa_meetings\/osa_imaging_and_applied_optics_congress\/mathematics_in_imaging\/\">Mathematics in Imaging<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>2016 \u2013 present, SPIE Commercial+Scientific Sensing &amp; Imaging Symposium, <a href=\"https:\/\/spie.org\/SIC\/conferencedetails\/computational-imaging?SSO=1\"><em>Computational Imaging <\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>2015 OSA\/APS Annual Laser Science Conference, Computational Optical Imaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong><em>Conference Area Chair:<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>2018, Industry Chair<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iccp2018.ece.cmu.edu\/\">IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography<\/a> (ICCP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Program Committee Member:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>2016 \u2013 present, OSA <em>Digital Holography &amp; 3D Imaging <\/em>conference<\/li>\n<li>2016 \u2013 present, SPIE Defense + Security Symposium, <em>Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays <\/em><\/li>\n<li>2017 \u2013 present, SPIE Defense + Security Symposium, <em>Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications <\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016 \u2013 present, SPIE Photonics West BiOS, <em>High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and Big Data Management<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016 \u2013 present, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)<\/li>\n<li>2016 \u2013 present, SPIE Photonics Asia, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPOINTMENTS Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering (07\/2016 \u2013 present) Biomedical Engineering Photonics Center BU Neurophotonics Center BU Center for Information &amp; System Engineering Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center University of California, Berkeley Postdoc, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (07\/2013 &#8211; 06\/2016) Advisor: Laura Waller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12228,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/profiles.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions\/2435"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}