Fei Xia, Ph.D., Principle Investigator.

Ph.D. Cornell University, 2021.

Fei Xia is an incoming Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University and is completing her postdoc at Department of Physics at École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. During her postdoc, she has been a frequent visiting researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research intersects optics, computation, and the brain, with a particular interest in designing advanced optical systems to image, sense, and process biomedical information probed by light. She aims to provide innovative solutions to challenging biomedical needs through the co-design of hardware and software. She is in the program committee of Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence of SPIE Optics + Photonics, co-Chair of the Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and co-Chair of Neurophotonics session of Annual NeuroTech Conference of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics. Fei has been recognized by several major awards and honors, including the 2024 Rising Star in Light Finalist, 2023 Optica Foundation Challenge Award, 2022 Seal of Excellence for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, the 2022 SPIE Women in Optics, 2020 Data Open Championship and the 2019 Mong NeuroTech Fellowship.