Laura Waller wins 2018 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award

Waller (2nd from right) at the 2018 Opto Symposium

Associate Prof. Laura Waller has won the 2018 Early Career Achievement Award–Academic focus–from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). The award, which is paired with an industry-focused award, is presented annually in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions in the engineering or scientific fields of relevance to SPIE.  Waller, who heads the Computational Imagaing Lab, was recognized for “her contributions to biomedical and industrial science through development of computational imaging hardware and software for phase retrieval, 3D imaging and partially coherent systems.”  The award was presented at the Opto Symposium, co-chaired by colleague Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain, on January 29th,