Laura Waller

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Contact Information

514 Cory Hall

tel: (510) 642-2753

waller@berkeley.edu

Office Hours

Tuesday and Thursdays 11:00-11:30am, 514 Cory

Links

Personal Homepage

Publications

Dissertations

Research Support

Tracee Jackson
tmjackson@berkeley.edu

Biography

Laura Waller leads the Computational Imaging Lab, which develops new methods for optical imaging, with optics and computational algorithms designed jointly. She holds the Ted Van Duzer Endowed Professorship and is a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS), with affiliations in Bioengineering and Applied Sciences & Technology. Laura was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer of Physics at Princeton University from 2010-2012 and received BS, MEng and PhD degrees from MIT in 2004, 2005 and 2010, respectively. She is a Moore Foundation Data-Driven Investigator, Bakar fellow, Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring awardee, NSF CAREER awardee, Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, SPIE Early Career Achievement Awardee and Packard Fellow.

Education

2010, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

2005, M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

2004, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Research Areas

Physical Electronics (PHY)

Signal Processing (SP)

Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)

Graphics (GR)

Computational imaging

Optics

Research Centers

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR)

Integrated Modeling Process and Computation for Technology (IMPACT)

Teaching Schedule

EE 290-5. Computational Imaging, TuTh 11:00-12:29, Cory 540AB

N. Antipa, P. Oare, E. Bostan, R. Ng, and L. Waller, "Video from stills: Lensless imaging with rolling shutter," IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, May 2019.
N. Pegard, H. Liu, N. Antipa, M. Gerlock, H. Adesnik, and L. Waller, "Compressive light-field microscopy for 3D neural activity recording," Optica, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 517--524, 2016.
J. Kim, X. Zhang, L. Waller, B. A. Barsky, and R. Ng, "Free Your Eyes: Retinal Image Deblurring Display with Enlarged Viewing Zone," in International Conference on Computational Photography, May 2016.
N. Antipa, S. Necula, R. Ng, and L. Waller, "Single-Shot Diffuser-Encoded Light Field Imaging," in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2016, pp. 1--11.
L. Waller and L. Tian, "Computational imaging: Machine learning for 3D microscopy," Nature, vol. 523, no. 7561, 2015.
L. Tian, Z. Liu, L. Yeh, M. Chen, J. Zhong, and L. Waller, "Computational illumination for high-speed in vitro Fourier ptychographic microscopy," Optica, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 904--911, 2015.
L. Tian and L. Waller, "3D intensity and phase imaging from light field measurements in an LED array microscope," Optica, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 104--111, Jan. 2015.
Z. Jingshan, L. Tian, J. Dauwels, and L. Waller, "Partially coherent phase imaging with simultaneous source recovery," Biomed. Opt. Express, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 257--265, Dec. 2014.
L. Waller, G. Situ, and J. Fleischer, "Phase-space measurement and coherence synthesis of optical beams," Nature Photonics, vol. 6, pp. 474-479, July 2012.
L. Waller, S. S. Kou, C. J. R. Sheppard, and G. Barbastathis, "Phase from chromatic aberrations," Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 22, pp. 22817--22825, Oct. 2010.

Max Planck-Humboldt Medals, 2024
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, 2021
OSA Adolf Lomb Medal, 2021
SPIE Early Career Achievement Award - Academic, 2018
Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2016
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2014
Moore Investigator in Data Driven Discovery, 2014
Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering, 2014
Bakar Fellows Spark Award, 2014

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