Last Updated: Aug 2023
Optics Research at Berkeley
Berkeley faculty who are actively involved in optics research are from the departments of Astronomy, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics, and Vision Science and Optometry. Selected optical faculty members along with their personal and/or lab websites are listed below. Prospective graduate students who are interested in studying optics at UC Berkeley are suggested to first identify a faculty member whose research program is of interest and the department to which he/she belongs. Each department has its own application process so please visit each affiliated department’s website for more information on how to apply.
Research Groups
Faculty Departments Research Area Boubacar Kante EECS wave-matter interaction , nanophotonics , nanoscale photon management , biophysics Constance Chang-Hasnain EECS semiconductor optoelectronic devices , nano-optoelectronics , broadband communications , high throughput biosensing Laura Waller EECS computational optical imaging , digital holography , light field cameras , metrology and inspection , phase retrieval , inverse problems in imaging , phase-space optics , optical coherence theory , nonlinear optics , 3d imaging and display Ming C. Wu EECS silicon photonics , mems , photonic integrated circuits , data center networks , 3d sensing , solid state lidar , optofluidics Eli Yablonovitch EECS optoelectronics , physical electronics , high speed optical communications , nanocavity lasers , photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies , quantum computing and communication Rikky Muller EECS integrated circuits , biosystems and computational biology , micro/nano electro mechanical systems Vladimir Stojanovic EECS integrated circuits , silicon photonics , VLSI Alp Sipahigil EECS, Physics solid-state devices and technology , quantum technologies Ren Ng EECS imaging systems , computational photography , graphics , optics , computer vision , human vision , signal processing , artificial intelligence Xiang Zhang MechE mechanical engineering , rapid prototyping , semiconductor manufacturing , photonics , micro-nano scale engineering , 3d fabrication technologies , microelectronics , micro and nano-devices , nano-lithography , nano-instrumentation , bio-mems Aaron Streets Bioengineering biological systems , microfluidics , microscopy , genomics Daniel Fletcher Bioengineering bioengineering , optical and force microscopy , microfabrication , biophysics , mechanical properties of cells Markita Landry Chemistry nanomaterials , fluorescence microscopy , sensors , imaging , neuroscience , plant engineering Ke Xu Chemistry biophysical chemistry , cell biology at the nanoscale , super-resolution microscopy , single-molecule spectroscopy Austin John Roorda Optometry adaptive optics , eye , vision , ophthalmoscopy , scanning laser ophthalmoscope , ophthalmology Jacob Yates Optometry optometry William Tuten Optometry optometry Hillel Adesnik Molecular & Cell Biology neuroscience , neurobiology Srigokul Upadhyayula Molecular & Cell Biology bioimaging , microscopy , multimodel imaging system , artificial intelligence Na Ji Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics neuroscience , microscopy techniques , in vivo imaging , biophotonics , biophysics , adaptive optics , optics Eric Betzig Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics, HWNI imaging microscopy , biophysics Jessica Lu Physics, Astronomy black holes , star and cluster formation , galactic centers , adaptive optics , astronomy , infrared instrumentation Naomi Ginsberg Physics atomic molecular and optical physics , biophysics , condensed matter physics and material science Feng Wang Physics condensed matter physics , photonics , nanoscience Dan Stamper-Kurn Physics atomic physics , the use of ultra-cold neutral atoms , studies of microscopic and macroscopic quantum phenomena , cavity quantum electrodynamics , bose-einstein condensation , precision and quantum measurement Eric Yue Ma Physics atomic , molecular and optical physics , condensed matter physics and materials science Joseph Orenstein Physics physics , optics , electromagnetic radiation , probe condensed matter systems , light waves , transmission and reflection coefficients , high-tc superconductors organic molecular crystals , quasiparticles , origin of superconductivity , terahertz spectroscopy Jack Gallant Psychology computational neuroscience , vision science, attention , fMRI , language , natural scene perception , brain encoding , brain decoding
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