Preza Featured with an OSA Fellow Profile

For outstanding and sustained research contributions

Dr. Chrysanthe Preza, Kanuri professor and chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently featured with an Optical Society (OSA) profile. Preza’s research in computational imaging is interdisciplinary, involving mathematics, optics, computer science and biology. Her current research focus is on different microscopy modalities, working to extract useful information by processing the acquired data with new computational approaches and often by altering how data is collected by making changes to the imaging instruments. Her lab works to design the instrument and the computations at the same time so that you can achieve optimal imaging system performance. Preza shares that currently machine learning used in computational imaging shows promising results, but neural networks are still very much a “black box” and require large training data sets. She believes that it is important to use imaging models developed over the years to guide neural networks and make them more interpretable. Physics-guided neural networks are better suited for computational imaging, and her current research is contributing to that effort.

The OSA Fellow is a membership designation of The Optical Society (OSA) that denotes distinguished scientific accomplishment. An OSA member can only become an OSA Fellow when nominated by a peer group of other current, OSA Fellows. Review of the nomination is then passed to the OSA Fellow Members Committee. This committee then nominates the candidate to the Board of Directors on an annual basis. The purpose of this award is to designate a member as one who has been identified as making significant contributions to the advancement of optics.

Read full OSA profile here.