Ni Chen

Transdisciplinary optimist, Diversity & inclusion optimist

Meinel 645, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA

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Experiences

• 2023.01~Present: Associate Research Professor, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona.
• 2019.11~2023.01: Researcher, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
• 2017.09~2019.10: Visiting Scholar (17–18) / Brain Korea 21 Assistant Professor (18–19), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University.
• 2016.07~2017.09: Assistant / Associate Professor, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• 2014.09~2016.05: Research Scientist, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong.

Education

• Ph.D., OEQE Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee.
• M.E., OIP Lab, Computer and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Advisors: Prof. Nam Kim and Prof. Jae-Hyeung Park.
• B.E., Computer Software Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai).

Professional Activities

• 2022: Session Chair of Advances in Holography of Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)
• 2022: Guest Associate Editor of Optics Express - Augmented and Virtual Reality: Optics & Photonics
• 2022: Program Committee of OPTICA topical meeting, Digital Holography and 3D Imaging
• 2021~2023: Executive committee of OPTICA Technical Group: Optics in Digital Systems (ID)
• 2021.05 ~: Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Photonics – Research Topic of 3D/4D Optical Imaging and Displays
• 2021: Session Chair of Digital Holography and 3D Imaging
• 2021: Program Committee of OSA topical meeting, Digital Holography and 3D Imaging
• 2020: Program Committee of OSA topical meeting, Digital Holography and 3D Imaging
• 2018.02~2020.02: Committee of OSA Technical Group: Image Sensing and Pattern Recognition (IR)
• 2017.10: Program Secretary of SPIE Optoelectronic Imaging / Spectroscopy and Signal Processing Technology, Optical Instrument and Technology (OIT’ 2017)
• 2017.09: Program Secretary of Xiangshan science conference: “Computational Optical Imaging – Opportunities and Challenges”
• 2017.06~: Topic Editor of Acta Optica Sinica
• 2013.05~: Reviewer for
  • - Biomedical Optical Express, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Optics, Journal of Optical Society of America A
  • - Measurements, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Optics Communications, Optik, Results in Optics, Applied Physics B,
  • - Scientific Reports
  • - Applied Science
  • - IEEE Access, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Photonics Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • - ETRI Journal
  • - Journal of Information Display
  • Light Publishing Group - Light: Advanced Manufacturing
  • - Chinese Journal of Lasers, Acta Optica Sinica
  • - National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
• 2009~: Member of Optical Society of Korea (OSK), Optical Society of America (OSA), International Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (SPIE)

Honors and Awards

• Senior Member of OPTICA, Jun. 2022
• Finalists (5/300), Resilience Challenge of Winter Enrichment Program (WEP), Jan. 2022
• Student Paper Award, International Optical Design Conference of OPTICA, Jul. 2021
• Best Paper Award, Chinese Laser Press, Sep. 2017
• Special awards, NCRCAPS Lab., Seoul National University, Korea, Dec. 2012
• Outstanding Poster Paper Award, 12th International Meeting on Information Display, Aug. 2012
• Outstanding Paper Award, 18th Conference on Optoelectronics and Optical Communication, May 2011
• Brain Korea 21 Outstanding Master Course Student, Chungbuk National University, Feb. 2010
• Outstanding Graduates Award, Harbin Institute Technology University, Jul. 2008
• National Encouragement Scholarship, China, Sep. 2007
• National Scholarship, China, Mar. 2006