Aydogan Ozcan

Aydogan Ozcan

PROFESSOR
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
BIOENGINEERING

Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation
HHMI Professor

68-119 Engr. IV

Email: ozcan@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-0915

Websites

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Deep Learning Optics and Optical Computing
  • Computational Imaging and Microscopy
  • Bio-sensing and Mobile Health
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
https://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/refereed-journal-publications.html
IN THE NEWS
EDUCATION
  • 2005, Ph.D. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Electrical Engineering Department
  • 2002, M.S. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Electrical Engineering Department
  • 2000, B.S. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Federal Awards & Honors • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2011 • Army Research Office (ARO), Young Investigator Award, 2011 • NSF CAREER Award, 2010 • NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2009 • Office of Naval Research (ONR), Young Investigator Award, 2009 Professional Society Awards • Dennis Gabor Award, The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2023 • Joseph Fraunhofer Award & Robert M. Burley Prize, Optica (OSA), 2022 • Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2021 • Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2019 • Fellow, The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2018 • Fellow, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018 • Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2017 • Fellow, IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017 • Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2017 • Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Photonics Society, 2016 • ICO Prize, The International Commission for Optics (ICO), 2015 • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA), 2014 • Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2013 • Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2013 {Inaugural Recipient} • Early Career Achievement Award, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2011 • IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, 2009 Foundation Awards & Honors • Guggenheim Fellow, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2017 • Rahmi M. Koç Science Medal, Koç University & Vehbi Koç Foundation, 2016 {Inaugural Recipient} • Ernst Abbe Lecture and Award, Carl Zeiss Foundation, 2016 • Vodafone Americas Foundation, Wireless Innovation Award, 2016 • Mary Kay Foundation, Cancer Research Award, 2016 • National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award, 2012 • Rockefeller Foundation and mHealth Alliance, Innovators Challenge Winner, 2011 • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Explorations Award, 2010 • Vodafone Americas Foundation, Wireless Innovation Award, 2009 • Okawa Foundation Award, Japan, 2008 Other Awards & Honors • Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science – Clarivate, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 • Researcher of the Year Award, The Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), 2020 • Blavatnik Awards, National Award Finalist, 2020 • Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation, UCLA, 2019 • UCLA Health Innovation, Med-Tech Challenge Winner, 2019 • UCLA Innovation Fund Competition Winner, 2018 • The Stillman Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2018 • TASSA President’s Service Award, TASSA, 2018 • Turkish Science Academy, Member, 2017 • Biocom Life Science Catalyst Award, 2017 • U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium – Committee Member, Session Chair, 2016 • U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Arab-American Frontiers of Science Fellowship, 2016 • Blavatnik Awards, National Award Finalist, 2016 • Technology Pioneer, The World Economic Forum, 2015 {Holomic LLC is selected as a Technology Pioneer, among the most promising early-stage companies in the world} • Postdoctoral Scholars Mentoring Award, UCLA, 2015 • U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, Invited Speaker, 2015 • The President’s Cancer Panel, The Connected Cancer Patient Workshop, Invited Speaker and Panelist, 2015 • The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Microbiome Workshop, Invited Participant and Panelist, 2015 • NIH Common Fund, Strategic Planning Workshop, Invited Participant and Panelist, 2015 • The Kavli Foundation, Kavli Futures Symposium on Microbiome, Invited Participant and Panelist, 2015 • Microscopy Today Innovation Award, 2015 • Blavatnik Awards, National Award Finalist, 2015 • Best Paper Award, SPIE Translational Research Symposium (Photonics West Conference), 2015 • HHMI Professor, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), 2014 • National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium - Invited Participant, 2014 • Blavatnik Awards, National Award Finalist, 2014 • Chancellor’s Professorship (UCLA), 2013 • Microscopy Today Innovation Award, 2013 • JALA Ten (presented by the Journal of Laboratory Automation), Selected Among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of The Year, 2013 • World Technology Award on Health & Medicine, presented by the World Technology Network in association with TIME, CNN, AAAS, Science, Technology Review, Fortune and Kurzweil, 2012 • Popular Science, Brilliant 10 Award, 2012 • IEEE NANOMED Conference, Best Paper Award, 2012 • The Scientist, Top Innovation of the Year, 2011 • Regional Health Care Innovation Challenge Award, The von Liebig Center, UCSD, 2011 • National Academy of Engineering (NAE), U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium - Invited Participant, 2011 • Innovation Competition Award, World Reconstruction Conference, Geneva, 2011 • Outstanding Young Person of the Year - Medical Innovations, JCI (Junior Chamber International) Turkey, 2011 • LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, Department of State, and NIKE, 2010 • National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, 2010 • Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 2010 • Netexplorateur Award, Netexplorateur Observatory and Forum, France, 2010 • PopTech Science and Public Leaders Fellowship, 2010 • University of Southern California - Body Computing Slam Prize, 2010 • MIT’s Technology Review Magazine, TR 35 Award, 2009 • Outstanding paper award, Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), 2008
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  • Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2019
  • Fellow, The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2018
  • Fellow, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
  • Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2017
  • Fellow, IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017
  • Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2017
  • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA), 2014
  • Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2013