About Aydoğan Özcan

Prof. Özcan is a professor at the UCLA Electrical Engineering & Bioengineering departments and HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also the vice Director for the California NanoSystems Institute and the founder of Holomic/Cellmic LLC. His research aims at introducing fundamentally new imaging and sensing architectures that enable photonics based telemedicine technologies necessary for the next generation smart global health systems. For example, his UCLA research team has invented a way to turn common cell phones into imaging tools that will bring accurate medical diagnoses to the most remote, resource-poor corners of the planet. Blending an engineer’s discipline and a social entrepreneur’s heart, Prof. Özcan argues that such technologies may transform global healthcare in powerful, practical ways we’ve never before imagined.

Prof. Özcan is the recipient of numerous awards including NIH Director’s New Innovator Award 2009 and MIT’s TR35 Award 2009. He holds 22 issued patents (all licensed) and more than 15 pending patent applications for his inventions in imaging. He has published more than 350 peer reviewed research articles in major scientific journals and conferences. Prof. Özcan is elected Fellow of SPIE and OSA, and is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of AAAS and BMES.