Prof. Bahram Javidi is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at University 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 photonics, and he has made seminal contributions to passive and active multi-dimensional imaging from nano to micro and macro scales. Prof. Javidi’s research has been recognized by awards and prizes from major scientific societies. He has been awarded The Optica Society (a. k. a. OSA) Emmett Leith Medal, and C. E. K. Mees Medal (2019); The IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award (2019); The Optica Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize (2018); and the European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics (2015). He was awarded the IEEE Donald G. Fink Paper Prize (2008), chosen from among all, that is over 130 IEEE transactions, journals, and magazines; the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow Award (2008); the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prize (2007); the SPIE Technology Achievement Award (2008); and the 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 Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award, the university’s highest honor for its alumni in all disciplines. He has been named Fellow of several societies, including IEEE, Optica (OSA), SPIE, American Inst. for Medical & Biological Eng, European Optical Society, National Academy of Inventors, and Institute of Physics.
Prof. Javidi was selected in 2003 as one of the nation’s top 160 engineers between the ages of 30-45 by the National Academy of Engineering to be an invited speaker at The Frontiers of Engineering Conference. He is an alumnus of the Frontiers of Engineering of National Academy of Engineering since 2003. Early in his career, the National Science Foundation (USA) named him a Presidential Young Investigator; and he received the Engineering Foundation and IEEE Faculty Initiation Awards.
Prof. Javidi has over 1100 publications, including 9 books, 58 book chapters, 538 peer reviewed journal articles, and 522 conference proceedings. He has given over 250 plenaries, keynotes, and invited conference papers. His publications have been cited over 49000 times (h-index=104, i10-index=716) according to Google Scholar. He is on The Most Cited Researchers List in Electrical & Electronic Engineering according to Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. He has supervised 175 Master’s and PhD students, post-doctoral students, visiting professors and scholars. He is a strong believer in international scientific exchange and collaboration, and has co-authored publications with over 300 different students, scientists, and engineers from Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Prof. Javidi has served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE Journal (ranked number one among all electrical engineering journals with impact factor of 9.1); the Founding Editorial Board of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology; and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the IEEE Photonics Journal (impact factor of 2.6). In 2008-2011, he was elected by the members to serve on the Board of Directors of the SPIE. He is the founding chair of several conferences in optics & photonics sponsored by OSA, IEEE, and SPIE, and has chaired over 75 international conferences. His papers have appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE Journal, Journal of the Royal Society, Physics Today, Advances in Optics and Photonics, and Nature. His research has been cited in Nature Physics, IEEE Spectrum, Science, New Scientist, OE Magazine, SPIE Newsroom, Optics and Photonics News Magazine, IEEE Photonics, NASA, and National Science Foundation Newsletters. He received the BS degree from George Washington Univ, and PhD degree from The Pennsylvania State University.