California NanoSystems Institute
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Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D.

   
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Member, California NanoSystems Institute

Education:
Degrees:
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005
M.S., Stanford University, 2002
B.S., Bilkent University, 2000

Honors and Awards:
BMES, Outstanding Paper Award - BMES Annual Fall Meeting 2008
Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2009 Young Investigator Award
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America
Okawa Foundation, Japan, 2008 Okawa Research Award
NSF, NSF Award on Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health
IEEE Photonics Society, 2009 Young Investigator Award
2006 Gordon Research Conference, Outstanding Paper Award
1996 Ranked 25th and 26th, in mathematics and science categories, respectively, out of 1.5 million examinees in the nationwide Turkish university entrance exam

Contact Information:
Email Address: ozcan@ucla.edu
Laboratory: http://www.innovate.ee.ucla.edu/
Research Interests:

Photonics and its applications to nano and bio-technology, including but not limited to:
(a) imaging the nano-world, especially in bio-compatible settings;
(b) providing powerful solutions to global health related problems such as measurement of the cell count of HIV patients in resource limited settings;
(c) rapid and parallel detection of hundreds of thousands of molecular level binding events targeting microarray based proteomics and genomics; and
(d) monitoring of the biological state of 3D engineered tissues.



Selected Publications:

Su, T. W. Seo, S. Erlinger, A. Ozcan, A. , High-throughput lensfree imaging and characterization of a heterogeneous cell solution on a chip, Biotechnol Bioeng, 2009, 102 (3), 856-68.
Seo, S. Su, T. W. Tseng, D. K. Erlinger, A. Ozcan, A. , Lensfree holographic imaging for on-chip cytometry and diagnostics, Lab Chip, 2009, 9 (6), 777-87.
Seo, S., Su, T.W., Erlinger, A. and Ozcan, A., Multi-color LUCAS: Lensfree On-chip Cytometry Using Tunable Monochromatic Illumination and Digital Noise Reduction, Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering, 2008.
Ozcan, A. Demirci, U. , Ultra wide-field lens-free monitoring of cells on-chip, Lab Chip, 2008, 8 (1), 98-106.
Ozcan, A., Bilenca, A., Desjardin, A.E., Bouma, B.E., Tearney, G.J., A study of speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images using digital filtering, Journal of Optical Society of America, 2007, 24, 1901.
Ozcan, A., Cubukcu, E., Bouma, B.E., Capasso, F., Tearney, G.J., Differential Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy using Sensor Arrays, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2007, 13, 1721.
Bilenca, A., Cao, J., Ozcan, A., Bouma, B.E., Raftery, L., Tearney, G.J., Fluorescence Interferometry: Principles and Applications, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , 2007, Accepted.
Bilenca, A., Lasser, T., Ozcan, A., Leitgeb, R., Bouma, B.E., Tearney, G.J., Image formation in fluorescence coherence-gated imaging through scattering media, Optics Express, 2007, 15, 2810.
Ozcan, A., Tewary, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., and Kino, G.S., Observation of mode coupling in bitapered air-core fibers, Optics Communications, 2007, 271, 391.
Ozcan, A. and Demirci, U., Rewritable self-assembled long-period gratings in photonic bandgap fibers using microparticles, Optics Communications, 2007, 270, 225.
Ozcan, A., and Demirci, U., Ultra wide-field lens-free monitoring of cells on-chip, Lab Chip, 2007, DOI: 10.1039/b713695a.
Ozcan, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., Lablonde, L., Pureur, D. and Kino, G.S., A new iterative technique to characterize and design transmission fiber Bragg gratings, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2006, 24, 1913-1921.
Ozcan, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., and Kino, G.S., Characterization of fiber Bragg gratings using spectral interferometry based on minimum-phase functions, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2006, 24, 1739-1757.
Ozcan, A., Characterization of nonlinear thin films using logarithmic Hilbert transform, Electronics Letters, 2006, 42, 647-648.
Ozcan, A., Cubukcu, E., Bilenca, A., Crozier, K.B., Bouma, B.E., Capasso, F., and Tearney, G.J., Differential Nearfield scanning optical microscopy, Nano Letters, 2006, 6, 2609.
Bilenca, A., Ozcan, A., Bouma, B.E., Tearney, G.J., Fluorescence coherence tomography, Optics Express, 2006, 14, 7134-7143.
Ozcan, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., and Kino, G.S., Minimum-phase function based processing in frequency-domain optical coherence tomography systems, Journal of Optical Society of America, 2006, A 23, 1669-1677.
Ozcan, A., Bilenca, A., Bouma, B.E., Tearney, G.J., Mirror tunnel microscope, Applied Physics Letters, 2006, 89, 131124.
Ozcan, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., and Kino, G.S., Quasi-phase-matched grating characterization using minimumphase functions, Optics Communications, 2006, 269, 199.
Ozcan, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., and Kino, G.S., Detailed analysis of inverse Fourier transform techniques to uniquely infer second-order nonlinearity profile of thin films, Journal of Applied Physics, 2005, 97, 013502.
Demirci, U., and Ozcan, A., Droplet ejection by femtosecond laser micromachined multiple orifice membrane based 2-D ejector arrays, Electronics Letters, 2005, 41, 1219-1220.
Ozcan, A., Digonnet, M.J.F., Kino, G.S., Ay, F., and Aydinli, A., Characterization of thermally poled germanosilicate thin films, Optics Express, 2004, 12, 4698-4708.