Aydogan Ozcan

{{short description|Turkish-American engineer and academic}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Aydogan Ozcan | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Aydoğan Özcan | birth_date = {{birth year and age |1978}} | citizenship =  | fields = {{plainlist| *Electrical engineering *Optical engineering *Biomedical engineering }} | workplaces = {{plainlist| *Harvard Medical School *University of California, Los Angeles *Howard Hughes Medical Institute }} | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| *Bilkent University *Stanford University }} | thesis_title = Non-destructive characterization tools based on spectral interferometry and minimum phase functions | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/non-destructive-characterization-tools-based-on/docview/305443539/se-2?accountid=210906 | thesis_year = 2005 | doctoral_advisor = {{plainlist| *Gordon S. Kino *Michel J. F. Digonnet }} | known_for = {{plainlist| *Mobile sensing *Medical diagnosis *Computational imaging }} | awards = | website = {{URL|research.seas.ucla.edu/ozcan/}} }}

'''Aydogan Ozcan''' (born 1978) is a Turkish-American engineer and inventor who is Chancellor's Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at University of California, Los Angeles. Also affiliated with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he is best known for his contributions to optical mobile sensing and medical diagnosis technologies, and computational imaging techniques.

==Biography== Born in 1978, Ozcan received B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution, he became a research faculty at Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Harvard Medical School. In 2007, he became a faculty member at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering of University of California, Los Angeles.<ref name="light-people"/> In 2014, he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.<ref name="spie"/> Ozcan also serves as the associate director of California NanoSystems Institute,<ref name="uclahealth"/> as well as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal ''eLight''.<ref name="editorial"/>

Ozcan's main research interests includes computational microscopy, point-of-care testing and optical computing.<ref name="light-people"/> His research laboratory has developed low-cost photonics-based telemedicine technologies for smartphones.<ref name="nbcnews"/><ref name="spie2"/> In 2014, he was elected as an Optica Fellow "for contributions to computational imaging, sensing and holography technologies, and instrumentation impacting bio-photonics and its applications to telemedicine and global health."<ref name="optica-fellow"/> In 2025, he was elected a member of National Academy of Engineering for "for contributions to mobile sensing and telepathology for medical diagnostics."<ref name="nae"/> He is also a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, SPIE, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, IEEE, Royal Society of Chemistry, National Academy of Inventors and American Physical Society,<ref name="light-people"/> as well as a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.<ref name="uclahealth"/>

In 2009, he was listed as a laureate of Innovators Under 35 by ''MIT Technology Review''.<ref name="trl"/><ref name="innovatorsunder35"/>

==Selected publications== * {{cite journal |last1=Rivenson |first1=Yair |last2=Zhang |first2=Yibo |last3=Günaydın |first3=Harun |last4=Teng |first4=Da |last5=Ozcan |first5=Aydogan |title=Phase recovery and holographic image reconstruction using deep learning in neural networks |journal=Light: Science & Applications |date=2018 |volume=7 |pages=17141 |doi=10.1038/lsa.2017.141|pmc=6060068 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Rivenson |first1=Yair |last2=Göröcs |first2=Zoltán |last3=Günaydin |first3=Harun |last4=Zhang |first4=Yibo |last5=Wang |first5=Hongda |last6=Ozcan |first6=Aydogan |title=Deep learning microscopy |journal=Optica |date=2017 |volume=4 |issue=11 |pages=1437–1443 |doi=10.1364/OPTICA.4.001437|arxiv=1705.04709 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Lin |first1=Xing |last2=Rivenson |first2=Yair |last3=Yardimci |first3=Nezih T. |last4=Luo |first4=Yi |last5=Jarrahi |first5=Mona |last6=Ozcan |first6=Aydogan |title=All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks |journal=Science |date=2018 |volume=361 |issue=6406 |pages=1004–1008 |doi=10.1126/science.aat8084|arxiv=1804.08711 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Barbastathis |first1=George |last2=Ozcan |first2=Aydogan |last3=Situ |first3=Guohai |title=On the use of deep learning for computational imaging |journal=Optica |date=2019 |volume=8 |issue=8 |pages=921–943 |doi=10.1364/OPTICA.6.000921|hdl=1721.1/126023 |hdl-access=free }}

==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs=

<ref name="editorial">{{cite web |title=eLight: Editorial Board |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/43593/editorial-board |website=springer.com |access-date=February 26, 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="innovatorsunder35">{{cite web |last1=Bourzac |first1=Katherine |title=Innovators Under 35: Aydogan Ozcan |url=https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/the-list/aydogan-ozcan/ |website=innovatorsunder35.com |publisher=Innovators Under 35 |access-date=February 26, 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="light-people">{{cite journal |last1=Sun |first1=Tingting |title=Light People: Professor Aydogan Ozcan |journal=Light: Science & Applications |date=2021 |volume=10 |pages=208 |doi=10.1038/s41377-021-00643-1|pmc=8491441 }}</ref>

<ref name="nae">{{cite web |title=Dr. Aydogan Ozcan |url=https://www.nae.edu/331729/Dr-Aydogan-Ozcan |website=nae.edu |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=February 25, 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="nbcnews">{{cite news |last1=Diep |first1=Francie |title=Smartphone 'Lab' Detects Allergens in Food |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna50239714 |access-date=February 25, 2026 |work=NBCNews.com |date=December 18, 2012}}</ref>

<ref name="optica-fellow">{{cite web |title=Optica: 2014 Fellows |url=https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/2014_fellows/ |website=optica.org |publisher=Optica |access-date=February 25, 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="spie">{{cite web |title=Aydogan Ozcan named HHMI professor |url=https://spie.org/about-spie/spie-member-news/ozcan-hhmi-7-2-14 |website=spie.org |publisher=SPIE |access-date=February 25, 2026 |date=July 2, 2014}}</ref>

<ref name="spie2">{{cite web |title=Aydogan Ozcan video: Low-cost cellphone microscope enabled by enhanced processing capabilities |url=https://spie.org/news/ozcan |website=spie.org |access-date=February 25, 2026 |date=September 22, 2011}}</ref>

<ref name="trl">{{cite news |url=http://portal.ctrl.ucla.edu/cnsi/news/item?item_id=935314 |title=Aydogan Ozcan Recognized by Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 Listing of the World's Top Young Innovators for 2009 |publisher=UCLA |date=August 18, 2009 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006122143/http://portal.ctrl.ucla.edu/cnsi/news/item?item_id=935314 |archive-date=October 6, 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name="uclahealth">{{cite web |title=Aydogan Ozcan elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts |url=https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/aydogan-ozcan-elected-european-academy-sciences-and-arts |website=uclahealth.org |access-date=February 25, 2026 |date=December 22, 2025}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{URL|research.seas.ucla.edu/ozcan/|Ozcan Research Lab}}

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