Last updated: December 2025
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Past seminars:
| Event Info | Time & Location | Event Type |
|---|---|---|
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Taming Priors for Scientific Computational Imaging Speaker: Dr. Berthy Feng Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Dec 10th, 2025 12:00-1:00pm 293 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Fabrication of Scalable and Electrically Injected Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers Speaker: Emma Martin PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley | Dec 8th, 2025 3:30-4:30pm 293 Cory | Dissertation Talk |
| 2D-3D Photonics for Scalable Quantum Computing Speaker: Daniel Tai Klawson PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley | Dec 5th, 2025 10:00-11:00am 380 Soda | Dissertation Talk |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Neural Field Representations of Mobile Computational Photography Speaker: Dr. Ilya Chugunov Research Scientist, Adobe NextCam | Nov 17th, 2025 12:00-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Moving beyond localization in fluorescence microscopy: mapping function with lifetime and polarization Speaker: Julia Lazzari-Dean Senior Scientist, Calico Life Sciences LLC | Oct 14th, 2025 12:00-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Quantum Emitters in Silicon for Scalable Quantum Photonics Speaker: Yertay Zhiyenbayev PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley | Aug 11th, 2025 1:00-2:00pm 540AB Cory | Dissertation Talk |
| Computational Hyperspectral Microscopy for Bioimaging Speaker: Neerja Aggarwal PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley | May 7th, 2025 10:00-11:00am 510 Soda | Dissertation Talk |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Computer Vision 2.0: seeing and understanding more than meets the eye Speaker: Prof. Mark Sheinin Assistant Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science | Apr 25th, 2025 1:00pm-2:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Scalable Nonlinear Optics on Chip: From Fundamentals to Applications Speaker: Prof. Mengjie Yu Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley | Apr 11th, 2025 12:00pm-1:00pm 430 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Career Development Seminar Innovation and Product Development in Ultrafast Lasers Speaker: Dr. Jim Kafka Optica President and Emeritus Fellow at MKS and Spectra-Physics | Apr 3rd, 2025 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Adaptive Optical Multi-Spectral Matrix Approach for Label-free High-resolution Imaging through Complex Scattering Media Speaker: Minh Dinh PhD Student at University of Southern California | Jan 17th, 2025 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Member Lightning Talk Lunch Speaker: Photobears Community | Dec 5th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 212 Cory | Professional Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Twisting Light with Nanomachines Speaker: Prof. Haoning Tang Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley | Aug 27th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam Speaker: Photobears Community UC Berkeley | Aug 8th, 2024 253M Cory | Mock Prelim |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Imaging Anytime Anywhere All at Once: Capturing Dynamic Scenes from Seconds to Picoseconds Speaker: Prof. David Lindell Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto | Jun 14th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 540AB Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Resume Workshop | Apr 25th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 212 Cory | Professional Development |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar How to have more fun and be more useful as a scientist, by immersing yourself in other people’s problems Speaker: Andrew York Principal Investigator and Head of Microscopy at Calico Life Sciences | Mar 14th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar NIR light sheet co-illumination reduces photobleaching in green fluorescent proteins Speaker: Tanner Fadero Altos Labs | Feb 12th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Holographic Tomography – Techniques and Biomedical Applications Speaker: Vinoth Balasubramani Senior researcher at KAUST | Feb 6th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar White-Box Computational Imaging: Measurements to Images to Insights Speaker: Sara Fridovich-Keil Stanford | Jan 29th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Spatio-Angular Microscopy Speaker: Talon Chandler Chan Zuckerberg Biohub | Jan 16th, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Computational microscopy and motion modeling Speaker: Ruiming Cao UC Berkeley | Nov 7th, 2023 12:30pm-1:30pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar Beat Pilot Tone: A System Exploitation for Simultaneous Radio-Frequency Motion Sensing and Imaging at Arbitrary Frequencies in MRI Speaker: Suma Anand UC Berkeley | Oct 12th, 2023 12:00pm-1:00pm 531 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam Speaker: Photobears Community UC Berkeley | Aug 10th, 2023 12:30pm-2:30pm 253M Cory | Mock Prelim |
| Computational microscopy methods for correlative imaging of biological dynamics Speaker: Ivan Ivanov Senior R&D Engineer, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub | Jul 20th, 2023 11am-12pm 531 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Neural Cameras and Displays: Building Machine Learning Frameworks for Optical System Design Speaker: Ethan Tseng Princeton Computational Imaging Lab, Princeton University | Jul 6th, 2023 11am-12pm 531 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Mapping Synaptic Inputs in Large Population with Engineered Bessel-Beam Two-Photon Microscope Speaker: Dr. Wei Chen UC Berkeley | Apr 20th, 2023 10am-11am 531 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Multimodal 3D Vision Speaker: Philip Jacobson UC Berkeley | Mar 16th, 2023 11am-12pm 531 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Novel lensless multicore fiber endoscopy for biomedicine Speaker: Juergen Czarske TU Dresden, Germany | Jan 27th, 2023 11am-12pm 299 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Analyzing biological architecture at scale with computational imaging and deep learning Speaker: Dr. Shalin Mehta Chan Zuckerberg Biohub | Nov 4th, 2022 11:30am-12:30pm 521 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| Putting a DSLR in your pocket: Computational Imaging for Next-Gen Smartphone Cameras Speaker: Tom Bishop CTO of Glass Imaging | Oct 27th, 2022 11:30am-12:30pm 299 Cory | Academic Seminar |
| High-throughput computational 3D imaging with a camera array Speaker: Dr. Kevin Zhou UC Berkeley Simultaneous holographic image reconstruction and blind source spectrum estimation using an untrained neural network Speaker: Dr. Iksung Kang UC Berkeley | Sep 30th, 2022 11:30am-12:30pm 521 Cory | Lightning Talks |
| Rapid Bacterial Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Speaker: Dr. Loza Tadesse UC Berkeley | Apr 6th, 2022 11:30am- 12:30 pm 510 Soda | Academic Seminar |
| A nanophotonic interface for atoms in optical tweezers Speaker: Dr. Polnop Samutpraphoot UC Berkeley | Nov 30th, 2021 12pm-1pm 253M Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
| Color Center in Silicon: From Ensembles to Single Qubit Speaker: Dr. Walid Redjem UC Berkeley | Oct 26th, 2021 12pm-1pm 253M Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
| Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam Speaker: Photobears Community UC Berkeley | Aug 12th, 2021 4pm-6pm Online | Mock Prelim |
| Infrared Detector Applications for Safe and Healthy Living Speaker: Prof. Unil Perera Georgia State University, Atlanta | Nov 5th, 2020 12pm-1pm Online | Academic Seminar |
| Breaking the bounds of imaging inlabel-free nanoscopy, micro-endoscopy and ophthalmology Speaker: Prof. Zeev Zalevsky Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel | Oct 13th, 2020 9am-10am, Online | Academic Seminar |
| Compressive snapshot hyperspectral Imaging using a diffuser and a spectral filter array Speaker: Kristina Monakhova UC Berkeley | Oct 2nd, 2020 12pm-12:30pm Online | Academic Seminar |
| Ultraviolet Optoelectronics for a Better Living Speaker: Prof. Zetian Mi University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | Aug 20th, 2020 12pm-1pm Online | Academic Seminar |
| Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam Speaker: Photobears Community UC Berkeley | Aug 18th, 2020 1pm-2:30 pm Online | Mock Prelim |
| Multifunctional Materials for Emerging Technologies Speaker: Prof. Frederico Rosei Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada | Aug 12th, 2020 4pm-5:30 pm, Online | Academic Seminar |
| Seminar by Zachary Penrod from Aerotech Speaker: Zachary Penrod Aerotech | Mar 5th, 2020 11:30am-12:30pm 320 Soda | Industry Seminar |
| Nanoscale Engineered Silicon Imagers Reaching Theoretical Limit Performance and their Application in Space Exploration and Synergistic Fields Speaker: Dr. Shouleh Nikzad Caltech / NASA JPL | Mar 4th 2020 11am-12pm 521 Cory Hall, Berkeley | Industry Seminar |
| Changing Paradigms in Optics Through Engineered Nanostructures Speaker: Dr. Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, UC Berkeley | Feb 24th, 2020 1 pm-1pm 253M Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
| Photobears lightning talks #11 Speaker: Sidney Buchbinder and Maruf Ahmed, UC Berkeley UC Berkeley | Dec 11th, 2019 12pm-1pm, 253 Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
| Brillouin Microscopy and Endoscopy Speaker: Prof. Peter Török Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. | Oct 29th, 2019 12pm-1 pm, 293 Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
| Coded Illumination for Multidimensional Quantitative Phase Microscopy Speaker: Michael Chen UC Berkeley | May 8th, 2019 12:30-1:30pm, 510 Soda hall. | Dissertation Talk |
| Nanophotonics by Design: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions Speaker: Prof. Owen D. Miller Yale University. | May 8th, 2019 3pm-4pm, 212 Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
| Computational speckle structured illumination for high-content microscopy Speaker: Li-Hao Yeh UC Berkeley | May 9th, 2019 9am-10am, 540 A/B Cory Hall | Dissertation Talk |
| A Hierarchical Approach to the Design and Optimization of Silicon Photonics Speaker: Andrew Michaels UC Berkeley | May 13th, 2019 3pm-4pm, 540 A/B Cory Hall. | Dissertation Talk |
| Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide NanoLEDs: Towards High Speed and High Efficiency Speaker: Kevin Han UC Berkeley | May 14th, 2019 2:30pm-3:30pm, 540AB Cory Hall. | Dissertation Talk |
| Design and Physics of VCSELs for Emerging Applications Speaker: Jonas Kapraun UC Berkeley | May 14th, 2019 2:30pm-3:30pm, 400 Cory hall. | Dissertation Talk |
| Optoelectronics for refrigeration and analog circuits for combinatorial optimization Speaker: T. Patrick Xiao UC Berkeley | Apr 29th, 2019 1pm-2pm, 540 Cory hall. | Dissertation Talk |
| Quantum photonics in the frequency domain Speaker: Prof. Alexander Gaeta Columbia University. | Apr 8th, 2019 11am-12pm, 531 Cory Hall | Academic Seminar |
Past social & outreach events:
| Event Info | Time & Location | Event Type |
|---|---|---|
| Fall Welcome Lunch | Sept 23rd, 2025 12:30pm-1:30pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Holiday Social | Dec 10th, 2024 3:00pm-4:00pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Fall Welcome Lunch | Aug 29th, 2024 12:30pm-1:30pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Tea Time | Monthly on last Thurs 3:00pm-4:00pm Summer 2024 | Social |
| Spring Celebration: Lawrence Hall of Science & Dinner | May 2nd, 2024 3:00pm-7:30pm Lawrence Hall of Science | Social |
| Spring Social Lunch | Mar 21st, 2024 12:00pm-1:00pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| CRS Day of Science | Mar 15th, 2024 9:00am-2:30pm Reach Academy, Oakland | Outreach |
| Holiday Social | Dec 5th, 2023 4:00pm-5:00pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Tea Time | Monthly on Thurs 4:00pm-5:00pm Summer 2023 | Social |
| Fall Welcome Lunch | Aug 24th, 2023 12:00pm-1:00pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Photobears @ Exploratorium After Dark | Apr 27th, 2023 6:00pm-10:00pm Exploratorium, San Francisco | Social |
| Spring Welcome Lunch | Feb 23rd, 2023 12:30pm-1:30pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Fall Welcome Lunch | Aug 25th, 2022 11:30am-12:30pm Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Tea Time | Alternating Thurs 4:00pm-5:00pm Summer 2022 Cory Courtyard | Social |
| Photobears Summer 2019 BBQ: Welcome reception of Prof Boubacar Kante and his group to UC Berkeley | May 18, 2019 5-8pm | Social |
| NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences | Nov 29, 2018 6-10pm Golden Gate Park, SF | Social |
| Cal Day 2018 Optics Demonstrations | April 21, 2018 9am-3pm, Upper Sproul Plaza | Outreach |
| Exploratorium After Dark: GLOW | Dec 7, 2017 6:30-10:00pm, The Exploratorium, SF | Social |
| Star-gazing at Chabot Observatory | April 28, 2017 8:30-10:30pm, Chabot Observatory, Oakland | Social |