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Biography

Aydogan Ozcan received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2005. After a short post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford, he was appointed as a Faculty Member at the rank of Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ozcan joined UCLA in the summer of 2007, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, leading the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory.

Dr. Ozcan holds 10 licensed and 9 pending US patents for his inventions in nanoscopy, wide-field imaging, nonlinear optics, fiber optics, and optical coherence tomography. He is also the co-author of more than 60 peer reviewed research articles in major scientific journals and conferences.

Dr. Ozcan is a member of IEEE, LEOS, OSA, SPIE and BMES.

Research Interests

Photonics and its applications to nanoand bio-technology, including but not limited to (a) imaging the nano-world, especially in bio-compatible settings; (b) providing powerful solutions to global health related problems such as measurement of the cell count of HIV patients in resource limited settings; (c) rapid and parallel detection of hundreds of thousands of molecular level binding events targeting microarray based proteomics and genomics; and (d) monitoring of the biological state of 3D engineered tissues.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2008 Okawa Foundation Award

• 2006 Outstanding Poster Award, Gordon Research Conference.