Aydogan Ozcan

Aydogan Ozcan
Born
Aydoğan Özcan

1978 (age 47–48)
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisNon-destructive characterization tools based on spectral interferometry and minimum phase functions (2005)
Doctoral advisor
Websiteresearch.seas.ucla.edu/ozcan/

Aydogan Ozcan (born 1978) is a Turkish-American engineer and inventor who is Chancellor's Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at University of California, Los Angeles. Also affiliated with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he is best known for his contributions to optical mobile sensing and medical diagnosis technologies, and computational imaging techniques.

Biography

Born in 1978, Ozcan received B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution, he became a research faculty at Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Harvard Medical School. In 2007, he became a faculty member at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering of University of California, Los Angeles.[1] In 2014, he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.[2] Ozcan also serves as the associate director of California NanoSystems Institute,[3] as well as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal eLight.[4]

Ozcan's main research interests includes computational microscopy, point-of-care testing and optical computing.[1] His research laboratory has developed low-cost photonics-based telemedicine technologies for smartphones.[5][6] In 2014, he was elected as an Optica Fellow "for contributions to computational imaging, sensing and holography technologies, and instrumentation impacting bio-photonics and its applications to telemedicine and global health."[7] In 2025, he was elected a member of National Academy of Engineering for "for contributions to mobile sensing and telepathology for medical diagnostics."[8] He is also a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, SPIE, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, IEEE, Royal Society of Chemistry, National Academy of Inventors and American Physical Society,[1] as well as a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.[3]

In 2009, he was listed as a laureate of Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review.[9][10]

Selected publications

  • Rivenson, Yair; Zhang, Yibo; Günaydın, Harun; Teng, Da; Ozcan, Aydogan (2018). "Phase recovery and holographic image reconstruction using deep learning in neural networks". Light: Science & Applications. 7: 17141. doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.141.
  • Rivenson, Yair; Göröcs, Zoltán; Günaydin, Harun; Zhang, Yibo; Wang, Hongda; Ozcan, Aydogan (2017). "Deep learning microscopy". Optica. 4 (11): 1437–1443. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.4.001437.
  • Lin, Xing; Rivenson, Yair; Yardimci, Nezih T.; Luo, Yi; Jarrahi, Mona; Ozcan, Aydogan (2018). "All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks". Science. 361 (6406): 1004–1008. doi:10.1126/science.aat8084.
  • Barbastathis, George; Ozcan, Aydogan; Situ, Guohai (2019). "On the use of deep learning for computational imaging". Optica. 8 (8): 921–943. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.6.000921.

References

  1. ^ a b c Sun, Tingting (2021). "Light People: Professor Aydogan Ozcan". Light: Science & Applications. 10: 208. doi:10.1038/s41377-021-00643-1.
  2. ^ "Aydogan Ozcan named HHMI professor". spie.org. SPIE. July 2, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  3. ^ a b "Aydogan Ozcan elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts". uclahealth.org. December 22, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  4. ^ "eLight: Editorial Board". springer.com. Retrieved February 26, 2026.
  5. ^ Diep, Francie (December 18, 2012). "Smartphone 'Lab' Detects Allergens in Food". NBCNews.com. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  6. ^ "Aydogan Ozcan video: Low-cost cellphone microscope enabled by enhanced processing capabilities". spie.org. September 22, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  7. ^ "Optica: 2014 Fellows". optica.org. Optica. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  8. ^ "Dr. Aydogan Ozcan". nae.edu. National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  9. ^ "Aydogan Ozcan Recognized by Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 Listing of the World's Top Young Innovators for 2009". UCLA. August 18, 2009. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  10. ^ Bourzac, Katherine. "Innovators Under 35: Aydogan Ozcan". innovatorsunder35.com. Innovators Under 35. Retrieved February 26, 2026.
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