Laura Waller
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Laura Waller | |
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.jpg) Waller speaks at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data, Society and Inference Seminar in 2015 | |
| Born | Laura Ann Waller |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MEng, PhD) |
| Awards | National Science Foundation CAREER Award Adolph Lomb Medal (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Berkeley Institute for Data Science Princeton University University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Computational phase imaging based on intensity transport (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Barbastathis[1] |
| Website | laurawaller |
Laura Ann Waller is a Canadian-American computer scientist and the Ted Van Duzer Endowed Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Computational Imaging Lab.[2][3] Her research focuses on computational imaging, developing techniques that integrate optical hardware design with computational processing to advance microscopy and phase imaging. She is a Fellow of The Optical Society and a senior fellow of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.[4]
Waller grew up in Kingston, Ontario, where she attended Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School.[5][6] She pursued all three of her degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2004 and a Master's degree in 2005.[5] During her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the University of Cambridge as part of the Cambridge–MIT Institute.[5] Her Master's thesis examined the design of feedback loops and experimental testing techniques for integrated optics.[5]
While at MIT, Waller was active in campus life: she played on the Women's Varsity soccer team, served as president of The Optical Society student chapter, and participated in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) programme.[7][8][9]
She completed her doctorate in 2010 under the supervision of George Barbastathis, with a thesis that developed new techniques to image phase and amplitude.[10][1]
