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SUMMARY:ICFO | BAHRAM JAVIDI
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis seminar is an overview of recent and reported r
 esearch in rapid automated disease identification with low-cost field port
 able bio-photonics systems through the analysis of blood cells with multid
 imensional digital holographic systems. Statistical and/or deep learning a
 lgorithms are used to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of 
 the reconstructed blood cells for automated disease identification. Recent
  applications of digital holography and dedicated algorithms for rapid COV
 ID-19 detection will be presented. We present a variety of bio-photonics s
 ensors including 3D printed thin lensless sensors using pseudo-random phas
 e encoding. Conventional holographic systems require a stable optical tabl
 e for reliable performance. Self-referencing holographic systems show much
  greater stability and are field portable. Experimental results are presen
 ted to illustrate the performance of these instruments in the field such a
 s health clinics for COVID-19 detection\, Sickle Cell disease detection\, 
 etc. Dedicated algorithms to inspect and classify cells such as blood cell
 s reconstructed using field portable holographic systems for automated dis
 ease identification will be presented. Recent advances in the proposed bio
 -photonics sensors give this approach a great potential for success.\nBio:
 \nProf. Bahram Javidi is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at Univ
 ersity of Connecticut\, the highest rank and honor bestowed on faculty by 
 UConn\, based on research\, teaching\, and service. His interests are in a
  broad range of transformative imaging approaches using optics and photoni
 cs\, and he has made seminal contributions to passive and active multi-dim
 ensional imaging from nano to micro and macro scales. His recent research 
 activities include digital holography\, polarimetric 3D imaging at low lig
 ht\, 3D visualization and recognition of objects in photon-starved environ
 ments\; automated disease identification using biophotonics with compact d
 igital holographic sensors for use in developing countries\; optical infor
 mation security\, encryption\, and authentication\; non-planar flexible 3D
  image sensing\, and bio-inspired imaging. He has 35 patents some of which
  have been licensed by industry. Prof. Javidi&rsquo\;s research has been r
 ecognized by awards and prizes from major scientific societies. He has bee
 n awarded The Optical Society (OSA) Emmett Leith medal (2021)\, OSA C. E. 
 K. Mees Medal (2019)\; The IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scienti
 fic Achievement Award (2019)\; The OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M.
  Burley Prize (2018)\; and the European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for A
 pplied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics (2015). He was awarded th
 e IEEE Donald G. Fink Paper Prize (2008)\, chosen from among all\, that is
  over 130 IEEE transactions\, journals\, and magazines\; the John Simon Gu
 ggenheim Foundation Fellow Award (2008)\; the Alexander von Humboldt Found
 ation Prize (2007)\; the SPIE Technology Achievement Award (2008)\; and th
 e SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Wave Technologies (2005). He was 
 named an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2004 and 2005\; 
 and was the 2010 recipient of the George Washington University's Distingui
 shed Alumni Scholar Award\, the university&rsquo\;s highest honor for its 
 alumni in all disciplines. He has been named Fellow of 8 societies\, inclu
 ding IEEE\, OSA\, SPIE\, American Inst. for Medical &amp\; Biological Eng\
 , European Optical Society\, National Academy of Inventors\, and Institute
  of Physics. Prof. Javidi has over 1100 publications\, including 9 books\,
  58 book chapters\, 540+ peer reviewed journal articles\, and 520+ confere
 nce proceedings. His publications have been cited 42800 times (h-index=104
 ) according to Google Scholar. He is on The Most Cited Researchers List in
  Electrical &amp\; Electronic Engineering according to Shanghai Academic R
 anking of World Universities.
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