Biography
Keisuke Goda is currently a program manager at UCLA. He is a member of Photonics Laboratory directed by Prof. Bahram Jalali in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Microfluidic Biotechnology Laboratory directed by Prof. Dino Di Carlo in the Department of Bioengineering, and California NanoSystems Institute.He obtained a B.S. degree summa cum laude from University of California, Berkeley in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007, both in physics. His thesis work at MIT was on the development of techniques for quantum-enhanced laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) group, which earned him the Gravitational Wave International Committee Thesis Award in 2008. He spent about two years before graduation at California Institute of Technology for his LIGO research. His thesis can be downloaded from this page. In 2007, he joined Photonics Laboratory at UCLA as a postdoctoral researcher and then became a program manager in the same group in 2011. In addition to this group, he also has been a member of Microfluidic Biotechnology Laboratory and California NanoSystems Institute since early 2011.
His research focuses on the development of novel platform technologies for a diverse range of biomedical and defense applications. His education and research background lie in the fields of precision measurement, biomedical imaging, communication technology, microfluidic biotechnology, biophysics, and ultrafast optics. Specifically, he is currently working on the development of novel high-throughput methods, techniques, and instruments for multi-parameter analysis, screening, manipulation, and elimination of large heterogeneous populations of cells. Applications of such technologies include drug discovery, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, global health, food science, environmental science, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics, impacting advanced research, industrial, and clinical settings.
In 2009, he developed an entirely new type of imaging technology that enables us to take pictures at a rate of more than 6 million pictures per second, which was published in Nature and later featured in numerous media articles. For his contribution to UCLA, he was awarded UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research in 2010. In 2011, he was awarded Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface - a highly competitive and prestigious award that will support the first three years of his faculty service as well as his interdisciplinary research and teaching.
He currently serves as the co-chair of IEEE Photonics Society Los Angeles Chapter. He is also the president of Southern California Japanese Scholars Forum which is a network of Japanese scientists, engineers, and medical doctors at universities (UCLA, Caltech, UCI, UCSB, UCSD, USC, etc.) and companies (Sony, Toshiba, Sharp, Olympus, etc.) in Southern California. He is also the founder and president of Los Angeles Sea Urchin Club. He is a member of OSA, SPIE, IEEE, American Physical Society, and Sigma Xi. Before joining UCLA, he was the founder and president of SPIE Student Chapter and the founder and vice-president of OSA Student Chapter at MIT.
He is a co-author of more than 60 journal publications (including two Nature and one Nature Physics papers) and 4 pending U.S. patents. He has been featured innumerous media articles including Nature, BBC, Wired Magazine, Discover Magazine, OPN, and LaserFocusWorld.
He is originally from Sapporo, Japan. He loves sushi and sake and enjoys playing soccer, skiing, and traveling. He can be reached at goda@ee.ucla.edu. His CV can be viewed here.
Grants and Awards
+ Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (2011)
+ UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research (2010)
+ Gravitational Wave International Committee Thesis Award (2008)
+ OSA's New Focus/Bookham Award Finalist (2007)
+ SPIE's F-MADE Scholarship (2005)
+ JAXA Satellite Design Contest Grant Prize (2002)
+ Graduate Research Poster Competition Award at MIT (2002)
+ Watters Scholarship at UC Berkeley (2000)
+ Pomerants Scholarship at UC Berkeley (2000)
+ Centuria of Excellene (2000)
+ Robert DeHart Memorial Scholarship (1999)
+ FODARA Scholarship (1999)
+ AMATEC Mathematics Award (1999)