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Aydogan Ozcan, Assistant Professor

NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2009
MIT's TR35 Award, 2009
Wireless Innovation Project Award, Vodafone Americas Foundation, 2009
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, 2009
IEEE LEOS Young Investigator Award, 2009
Okawa Award, 2008

Research Group: Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory

Office: 66-127D Engr. IV,  Phone: 310.825.0915, Email

Biography

Prof. Aydogan Ozcan received his Ph.D. degree at Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department in 2005. After a short post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he is appointed as a Research Faculty Member at Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine in 2006. Dr. Ozcan joined UCLA in the summer of 2007, where he is currently leading the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory at the Electrical Engineering Department. Prof. Ozcan’s research group is also part of UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), where he is currently serving as a member of the research committee.

Dr. Ozcan holds 14 US patents, 1 UK patent and another 9 pending patent applications for his inventions in nanoscopy, wide-field imaging, nonlinear optics, fiber optics, and optical coherence tomography. All of his patents are currently licensed by Northrop Grumman Corporation, which is the leading defense company in US. Dr. Ozcan is also the co-author of more than 70 peer reviewed research articles in major scientific journals and conferences.

Dr. Ozcan is serving in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, and is a member of the program committee of SPIE Photonics West Conference. He also serves as a panelist and a reviewer for National Science Foundation and for Harvard-MIT Innovative Technology for Medicine Program.

For his work on lensfree on-chip imaging and diagnostic tools, Prof. Ozcan received the prestigious 2008 Okawa Foundation Research Award, given by the Okawa Foundation, in Japan. Prof. Ozcan also received the 2009 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2009 IEEE Photonics Society’s (LEOS) Young Investigator Award for his pioneering contributions to non-destructive nonlinear material characterization and near-field and on-chip imaging & diagnostics. He is also the receipient of a National Science Foundation Award on “Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health” for his on-chip plasmonic microscopy work. Dr. Ozcan was also awarded the Presidential Fellowship from the Turkish Ministry of Education in 1996 (declined).

Dr. Ozcan is a member of IEEE, LEOS, EMBS, 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

• 2009 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

• 2009 MIT's TR35 Award

• 2009 Wireless Innovation Project Award, Vodafone Americas Foundation

• 2009 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award

• 2009 IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Young Investigator Award

• 2008 Okawa Foundation Research Award

• 2008 Outstanding paper award, BMES Annual Fall Meeting, October

• 2008 National Science Foundation Award on "Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health"

• 2006 Outstanding Paper Award, Gordon Research Conference, Lasers in Medicine and Biology

Books

• A. Ozcan, Non-destructive Optical Characterization Tools, Verlag DM Publishing House, 2008