Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Ozcan, who holds the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA Samueli, was elected to the academy’s technical and environmental sciences cohort for his major contributions to mobile sensing, computational imaging, microscopy and medical diagnostics. He also has a faculty appointment at the bioengineering department, serves as an associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and a member of the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
One of the pioneers in computational optics, Ozcan brings high-resolution imaging and sensing techniques to mobile phones and other lower-cost portable devices, eliminating the need for bulky and expensive equipment. He has developed a series of innovative microscopy techniques that use algorithms to replace traditional optical lenses for rapid high-volume, high-resolution imaging in biomedical sensing and diagnostics.
A member of the UCLA faculty since 2007, Ozcan previously held a research faculty position at Harvard Medical School and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where he earned his doctorate.
