Professor Lei Tian (ECE, BME) Granted Award by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Boston University Professor Lei Tian (ECE, BME) was a part of one of nine multidisciplinary teams that will receive a combined $1 million in funding from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RSCA), the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, the Walder Foundation, and Scialog: Advancing BioImaging, a group dedicated to advancements in imaging technology.
Scialog, short for “science and dialog,” supports the efforts of engineers, scientists, and more by sparking conversation about the global importance of science. The award is just one of many ways Scialog hopes to accelerate research through dialog and community growth. The Scialog award and grant will support Tian’s work in developing a new form of 3D microscopy technology in his Computational Imaging Systems Lab at BU.
The lab develops next-generation imaging systems that combine optics and computation. The new and improved systems overcome physical limitations that prior systems could not. At the core of the lab is the joint between the physical layer and the computational layer of the imaging systems. The lab’s work aims to play an important role in the fields of biomedical microscopy and neuroscience.
Tian, along with University of San Diego professor Ryan McGorty, Ph.D., will continue to develop their project titled “3D Dynamics Quantification with Differential Dynamic Light-Field Microscopy.”
More information about Professor Tian and his award can be found here.