Laura Waller

Research Areas

Physical Electronics (PHY)
Signal Processing (SP)
Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
Graphics (GR)
Computational imaging
Optics

Research Centers

Teaching Schedule

Fall 2024

EE 290-5. Computational Imaging, TuTh 15:30-16:59, Cory 521

Spring 2025

EE 120. Signals and Systems, MoWe 14:00-15:59, Dwinelle 145

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

Selected Publications

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.