Aydogan Ozcan

Aydogan Ozcan
Chancellor’s Professor and HHMI Professor
Primary Area: Physical and Wave Electronics

Office: 68-119 Engr. IV
Phone: (310) 825-0915
E-mail:
Research Lab: Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory


Research and Teaching Interests: Bioimaging, nano-photonics, nonlinear optics

Awards and Recognitions

2019	Fellow, The American Physical Society
2018	Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2018	Fellow, AAAS
2018	The Stillman Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2018	TASSA President’s Service Award, TASSA
2017	Biocom Life Science Catalyst Award
2017	Guggenheim Fellow, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2017	Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2017	Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
2017	Fellow, IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2016	Rahmi M. Koç Science Medal, Koç University & Vehbi Koç Foundation {Inaugural Recipient}
2016	U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium – Committee Member, Session Chair
2016	Mary Kay Foundation, Cancer Research Award
2016	Ernst Abbe Lecture and Award, Carl Zeiss Foundation
2016	Vodafone Americas Foundation, Wireless Innovation Award
2016	IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award
2016	U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Arab-American Frontiers of Science Fellowship
2015	ICO Prize, International Commission for Optics
2015	The World Economic Forum, Technology Pioneers List
2015	Postdoctoral Scholars Mentoring Award, UCLA
2015	The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Microbiome Workshop, Invited Participant/Panelist
2015	Microscopy Today, Innovation Award
2015	The Kavli Foundation, Kavli Futures Symposium on Microbiome, Invited Participant/Panelist
2014	HHMI Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2014	The Optical Society (OSA) Fellow
2014	National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium – Invited Participant
2013	Microscopy Today Innovation Award
2013	Selected Among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of The Year JALA Ten (presented by Journal of Laboratory Automation),
2013	UCLA Chancellor.s Professorship
2013	Fellow, SPIE
2013	SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award .for his seminal contributions to computational imaging, sensing and bio-photonics technologies impacting telemedicine and global health challenges..
2012	IEEE NANOMED Conference, Best Paper Award, 2012
2012	National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award
2012	World Technology Award on Health & Medicine, presented by the World Technology Network in association with TIME, CNN, AAAS, Science, Technology Review, Fortune and Kurzweil
2012	Popular Science, Brilliant 10 Award
2011	The Scientist, Top Innovation of the Year
2011	SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to non-destructive nonlinear material characterization techniques, nearfield and on-chip imaging and diagnostic systems.
2011	Rockefeller Foundation and mHealth Alliance, Innovators Challenge Winner
2011	Regional Health Care Innovation Challenge Award, The von Liebig Center, UCSD
2011	Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2011	National Academy of Engineering (NAE), U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium – Invited Participant
2011	Innovation Competition Award, World Reconstruction Conference, Geneva
2011	Army Research Office (ARO), Young Investigator Award
2010	Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award
2010	PopTech Science and Public Leaders Fellowship
2010	NSF CAREER Award
2010	Netexplorateur Award, Netexplorateur Observatory and Forum, France
2010	National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award
2010	LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, Department of State, and NIKE
2010	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Explorations Award
2009	Vodafone Americas Foundation, Wireless Innovation Award
2009	Office of Naval Research (ONR), Young Investigator Award
2009	NIH Director.s New Innovator Award
2009	MIT.s Technology Review Magazine, TR 35 Award
2009	IEEE LEOS Young Investigator Award for his pioneering contributions to non destructive nonlinear material characterization techniques, near-field and on-chip imaging and diagnostic systems.
2008	Outstanding paper award, Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), 2008
2008	Okawa Foundation Award, Japan
2006	Outstanding paper award, Gordon Research Conference, Lasers in Medicine and Biology

Selected Publications

A. Greenbaum, Y. Zhang, A. Feizi, P. Chung, W. Luo, S.R. Kandukuri, and A. Ozcan, “Wide-field Computational Imaging of Pathology Slides using Lensfree On-Chip Microscopy,” Science Translational Medicine (AAAS) DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009850 (2014)
O. Mudanyali, E. McLeod, W. Luo, A. Greenbaum, A.F. Coskun, Y. Hennequin, C. Allier and A. Ozcan, “Wide-field optical detection of nano-particles using on-chip microscopy and self-assembled nano-lenses,” Nature Photonics DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2012.337 (2013)
Q. Wei, H. Qi, W. Luo, D. Tseng, S. Jung Ki, Z. Wan, Z. Göröcs, L.A. Bentolila, T. Wu, Ren Sun, and A. Ozcan, “Fluorescent Imaging of Single Nanoparticles and Viruses on a Smart-Phone,” ACS Nano DOI:10.1021/nn4037706 (2013)
A. Greenbaum, W. Luo, T-W. Su, Z. Göröcs, L. Xue, S.O. Isikman, A.F. Coskun, O. Mudanyali, and A. Ozcan, “Imaging without lenses: achievements and remaining challenges of wide-field on-chip microscopy,” Nature Methods DOI:10.1038/nmeth.2114 (2012)
S.O. Isikman, W. Bishara, S. Mavandadi, F.W. Yu, S. Feng, R. Lau and A. Ozcan, “Lensfree Optical Tomographic Microscope with a Large Imaging Volume on a Chip,” DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015638108 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (2011)
Q. Wei, W. Luo, S. Chiang, T. Kappel, C. Mejia, D. Tseng, R. Chan, E. Yan, H. Qi, F. Shabbir, H. Ozkan, S. Feng, and A. Ozcan, “Imaging and Sizing of Single DNA Molecules on a Mobile-Phone,” ACS Nano DOI: 10.1021/nn505821y (2014)
Q. Wei, R. Nagi, K. Sadeghi, S. Feng, E. Yang, S. Ki, R. Caire, D. Tseng, and A. Ozcan, “Detection and Spatial Mapping of Mercury Contamination in Water Samples using a Smart-Phone,” ACS Nano DOI: 10.1021/nn406571t (2014)
S. Feng, R. Caire, B. Cortazar, M. Turan, A. Wong, and A. Ozcan, “Immunochromatographic Diagnostic Test Analysis using Google Glass,” ACS Nano DOI:10.1021/nn500614k (2014)
E. McLeod, W. Luo, O. Mudanyali, A. Greenbaum, and A. Ozcan, “Toward Giga-pixel Nanoscopy On a Chip: A computational wide-field look at the nano-scale without the use of lenses,” Lab on a Chip DOI:10.1039/C3LC50222H (2013)
T-W. Su, L. Xue and A. Ozcan, “High-throughput lensfree 3D tracking of human sperms reveals rare statistics of helical trajectories,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212506109 (2012)