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2023

2022

  • • According to a new ranking of professors, Prof. Javidi was ranked #35 among the Academic Highly Ranked Scholars™ in Electrical and Computer Engineering in United States During Lifetime:
    Highly Ranked Scholars | ScholarGPS: https://scholargps.com/https://scholargps.com/search.php?type=scholar_ranking&year=2022&p=1&p_profile=2&results=20&country%5B0%5D=United%2BStates&affiliation_type%5B0%5D=Academic&base_discipline=Electrical%20and%20Computer%20Engineering&ranking_duration=LIFETIME• Prof. Javidi delivered the Keynote Address at the Optica Imaging Congress 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts in August 2023:
    https://www.optica.org/events/congress/imaging_and_applied_optics_congress/program/invited_speakers/• According to a new ranking of scientists, Prof. Bahram Javidi is ranked #55 (in the USA) and #92 (in the world) among The Best Scientists in Electronics and Electrical Engineering for 2023.
    https://research.com/scientists-rankings/electronics-and-electrical-engineering/us

    World’s Best Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists: H-Index Electronics and Electrical Engineering Science Ranking in United States 2023 | Research.com

    • Prof. Bahram Javidi is named Fellow of the American Institute for Advancement of Science (AAAS):

    Four From UConn Named Fellows By AAAS

    • The following paper has been downloaded 15,500 times since its publication in March 2023:
    Bahram Javidi, Filiberto Pla, José M. Sotoca, Xin Shen, Pedro Latorre-Carmona, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Rubén Fernández-Beltrán, and Gokul Krishnan, “Fundamentals of automated human gesture recognition using 3D integral imaging: a tutorial,” Advances in Optics and Photonics 12, 1237-1299 (2020)
    https://opg.optica.org/aop/fulltext.cfm?uri=aop-12-4-1237&id=444727###

    • Prof. Javidi along with colleagues successfully organized an Optica conference on 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (2022):
    https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/osa_imaging_and_applied_optics_congress/

    • Prof. Javidi along with colleagues successfully organized a feature issue of Optics Express Journal (Impact Factor: 3.7) on 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (Published March 2023):

    https://opg.optica.org/oe/upcomingissue.cfm

    • Prof. Javidi was a colloquium speaker at ICFO in March 2023:
    https://www.icfo.eu/event/3232/bahram-javidi/

    • Prof. Javidi was a travelling lecturer at Optica (a. k. a. OSA) Student Chapter in University of Jaume I in Castellon, Spain in March 2023:
    • https://sites.google.com/a/uji.es/photonics-uji/

  • Prof. Bahram Javidi to deliver the Plenary Address at 2022 Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging Conference in Cambridge, UK July 2022.
    https://www.optica.org/en-us/events/topical_meetings/digital_holography_and_3-d_imaging/program_topics/invited_speakers/
  • Prof. Bahram Javidi to deliver the Keynote Address at 2022 International Commission on Optics Conference in Dresden, Germany, September 2022:
    https://www.ico25.org/
  • The following paper has been downloaded 14,500 times since its publication in December 2020:
    Bahram Javidi, Filiberto Pla, José M. Sotoca, Xin Shen, Pedro Latorre-Carmona, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Rubén Fernández-Beltrán, and Gokul Krishnan, “Fundamentals of automated human gesture recognition using 3D integral imaging: a tutorial,” Advances in Optics and Photonics 12, 1237-1299 (2020)
    https://opg.optica.org/aop/fulltext.cfm?uri=aop-12-4-1237&id=444727###
  • The following papers by Prof. Javidi and collaborators have been top downloads of journals in the past 12 months:
    1. Bahram Javidi, Artur Carnicer, Arun Anand, George Barbastathis, Wen Chen, Pietro Ferraro, J. W. Goodman, Ryoichi Horisaki, Kedar Khare, Malgorzata Kujawinska, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Pierre Marquet, Takanori Nomura, Aydogan Ozcan, YongKeun Park, Giancarlo Pedrini, Pascal Picart, Joseph Rosen, Genaro Saavedra, Natan T. Shaked, Adrian Stern, Enrique Tajahuerce, Lei Tian, Gordon Wetzstein, and Masahiro Yamaguchi, “Roadmap on digital holography [Invited],” Optics Express 29, 35078-35118 (2021). [Top Download]
    2. Bahram Javidi, Artur Carnicer, Jun Arai, Toshiaki Fujii, Hong Hua, Hongen Liao, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Filiberto Pla, Adrian Stern, Laura Waller, Qiong-Hua Wang, Gordon Wetzstein, Masahiro Yamaguchi, and Hirotsugu Yamamoto, “Roadmap on 3D integral imaging: sensing, processing, and display,” Optics Express 28, 32266-32293 (2020). [Top Download of Optics Express]
    3. Bahram Javidi, Filiberto Pla, José M. Sotoca, Xin Shen, Pedro Latorre-Carmona, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Rubén Fernández-Beltrán, and Gokul Krishnan, “Fundamentals of automated human gesture recognition using 3D integral imaging: a tutorial,” Advances in Optics and Photonics, 12, 1237-1299 (December 2020). [Top Download of AOP]
    4. Timothy O’Connor, Jian-Bing Shen, Bruce T. Liang, and Bahram Javidi, “Digital holographic deep learning of red blood cells for field-portable, rapid COVID-19 screening,” Optics Letters 46, 2344-2347 (May 2021). [Top Download of Optics Letters]
    5. Manuel Martinez-Corral and Bahram Javidi, “Fundamentals of 3D imaging and displays: A tutorial on integral imaging, Lightfield, and plenoptic systems,” Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 512-566, September 2018. [Top Download of AOP]

2021

  • The following paper was selected by The Optical Society (OSA) among all its journal to be showcased in Spotlight on Optics and was a Top Download of the journal:Timothy O’Connor, Jian-Bing Shen, Bruce T. Liang, and Bahram Javidi, “Digital holographic deep learning of red blood cells for field-portable, rapid COVID-19 screening,” Optics Letters 46, 2344-2347 (May 2021).
  • Javidi’s research in collaboration with UCHC colleagues was featured in IEEE Spectrum. Inexpensive 3D-Printed Microscope Can Spot Coronavirus in Blood, IEEE Spectrum, 17 August 2021 (by Spectrum Writer Kathy Pretz): https://spectrum.ieee.org/inexpensive-3d-printed-microscope-can-spot-coronavirus-in-blood
  • Recently, the following 4 papers by Prof. Javidi and collaborators have appeared as top downloads of journals:
    1. Manuel Martinez-Corral and Bahram Javidi, “Fundamentals of 3D imaging and displays: A tutorial on integral imaging, Lightfield, and plenoptic systems,” Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 512-566, September 2018. [Top Download of AOP]
    2. Bahram Javidi, Artur Carnicer, Jun Arai, Toshiaki Fujii, Hong Hua, Hongen Liao, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Filiberto Pla, Adrian Stern, Laura Waller, Qiong-Hua Wang, Gordon Wetzstein,
      Masahiro Yamaguchi, and Hirotsugu Yamamoto, “Roadmap on 3D integral imaging: sensing, processing, and display,” Optics Express 28, 32266-32293 (2020). [Top Download of Optics Express]
    3. Bahram Javidi, Filiberto Pla, José M. Sotoca, Xin Shen, Pedro Latorre-Carmona, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Rubén Fernández-Beltrán, and Gokul Krishnan, “Fundamentals of automated human gesture recognition using 3D integral imaging: a tutorial,” Advances in Optics and Photonics, 12, 1237-1299 (December 2020). [Top Download of AOP]
    4. Gokul Krishnan, Rakesh Joshi, Timothy O’Connor, Filiberto Pla, and Bahram Javidi, “Human gesture recognition under degraded environments using 3D-integral imaging and deep learning,” Opt. Express 28(13) 19711-19725 (2020). [Top Download of Optics Express]
    5. Timothy O’Connor, Jian-Bing Shen, Bruce T. Liang, and Bahram Javidi, “Digital holographic deep learning of red blood cells for field-portable, rapid COVID-19 screening,” Optics Letters 46, 2344-2347 (May 2021). [Top Download of Optics Letters]
  • Prof. Javidi along with colleagues are organizing an OSA conference on 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (2021):
    https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/osa_imaging_and_applied_optics_congress/
  • Prof. Javidi along with colleagues are organizing a feature issue of Optics Express (Impact Factor: 3.7) on 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (Submissions open in July 2021):
    https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/feature.cfm

2020

  • Prof. Javidi along with Professors Hong Hua, Prof. Oliver Bimber, and Dr. Yi-Pai Huang have organized a feature issue of Optics Express (Impact Factor: 3.7) on 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (2020): https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/virtual_issue.cfm?vid=474
  • In 2020, the following papers by Prof. Javidi and collaborators have appeared as top downloads of journals:
    1. Manuel Martinez-Corral and Bahram Javidi, “Fundamentals of 3D imaging and displays: A tutorial on integral imaging, Lightfield, and plenoptic systems,” Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 512-566, September 2018. [Top Download of AOP]
    2. Bahram Javidi, Artur Carnicer, Jun Arai, Toshiaki Fujii, Hong Hua, Hongen Liao, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Filiberto Pla, Adrian Stern, Laura Waller, Qiong-Hua Wang, Gordon Wetzstein, Masahiro Yamaguchi, and Hirotsugu Yamamoto, “Roadmap on 3D integral imaging: sensing, processing, and display,” Optics Express 28, 32266-32293 (2020)
  • Professor Bahram Javidi was selected as a finalist to the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis 2020.
  • Prof. Javidi along with Prof. Hong Hua (University of Arizona), Prof. Manuel Martinez-Corral (University of Valencia, Spain), Prof. Osamu Matoba (Kobe University, Japan), Prof. Adrian Stern (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), and Prof. Simon Thibault (Universite Laval, Canada) will chair the Optical Society (OSA) Conference on 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications at the 2021 Imaging and Applied Optics Congress in Vancouver, Canada, July 2021:https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/osa_imaging_and_applied_optics_congress/

 

2019

  • Prof. Javidi Wins 2019 C.E.K. Mees Medal from The Optical Society (OSA) — Learn More @ UConn Today
  • Prof. Javidi Wins 2019 IEEE William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award from The IEEE Photonics Society. For more information, please visit their website.
  • Prof. Javidi is named Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
  • The Optical Society (OSA) made a Press release on the following article by Prof. Javidi and his student: Timothy O’Connor, Ana Doblas, and Bahram Javidi, “Structured illumination in compact and field-portable shearing digital holographic microscopy for resolution enhancement,” Optics Letters, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 2326-2329, May 1, 2019.
    For more information, please click here.

2018

2017

  1. For coverage of our work on secure QR codes, please see, “UConn, faculty researcher issued patent on secure QR Codes,”  https://innovation.uconn.edu/news/239
  2. Our research on bio photonics and holographic field portable microscope for disease identification was recently featured on the NSF’s news website, The Scientist, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and IEEE among others:
    https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=243651
    http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50874/title/Image-of-the-Day–Malaria-Hologram/
    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uoc-hfm110117.php
    http://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/10267/fast-diagnosis-in-the-field-with-portable-holographic-microscope
  3. Prof. Javidi has organized a special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE Journal on 3-D Imaging and Display Technologies, click for more information
  4. The following paper has been a top download of the Advances in Optics and Photonics (Impact Factor 21.3):
    Artur Carnicer and Bahram Javidi, entitled “Optical Security and Authentication using Nanoscale and Thin Film structures,” Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP), vol 9, issue 2, pp 218-256, June 30, 2017.
    https://www.osapublishing.org/aop/abstract.cfm?uri=aop-9-2-218

2016

  1. The paper by Artur Carnicer and Bahram Javidi, “Optical Security and Authentication using Nanoscale and Thin Film structures,” Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP), vol 9, issue 2, pp 218-256, June 30, 2017 has been a Top download of AOP.
  2. B. Javidi has received The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Hall of Fame Award, the university’s highest honor for its alumni in engineering, October 2016.

2015

  1. The Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize for Applied Aspects by the European Physical Society (2015) was awarded to Prof. Javidi in June 2015.
  2. The Most Cited Researchers: Developed for ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 by Elsevier. According to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of universities by Academic Subjects and The Most Cited Researchers List (2016), the University of Connecticut is listed as #85 globally in terms of citations in Electrical & Electronic Engineering grouped by university. The ranking identifies Prof. Javidi from the University of Connecticut on this global list; he has 36,000 citations per Google Scholar. http://www.shanghairanking.com/The-Most-Cited-Researchers-Developed-for-ShanghaiRanking-Global-Ranking-of-Academic-Subjects-2016-by-Elsevier.html
  3. The following paper was awarded the Fumio Okano Best Paper Prize sponsored by Japan Broadcast Co [NHK-ES]; Pla, P. Latorre-Carmona, E. Salvador-Balaguer, B. Javidi,”Integral imaging acquisition and processing for human gesture recognition,” in Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display Conference 2015, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9495 (2015).

2014

  1. The Optical Society of America [OSA] made a press release on the paper, A. Markman, J. Wang, and B. Javidi, “3D Integral Imaging Displays Using a Quick-Response Encoded Elemental Image Array,” Optica, November 2014:
    http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2014/smartphones_team-up_with_qr_codes_for_secure_3-d_d/
  2. The following paper was awarded the Fumio Okano Best Paper Prize sponsored by Japan Broadcast Co [NHK-ES]: Manuel Martínez-Corral, Adrián Dorado, Hector Navarro, Anabel Llavador, Genaro Saavedra, Bahram Javidi,”From the plenoptic camera to the flat integral-imaging display,” in Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display Conference 2014, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9117, (2014).
  3. The paper, I. Moon, A. Anand, M. Cruz, and B. Javidi, “Identification of Malaria Infected Red Blood Cells via Digital Shearing Interferometry and Statistical Inference,”IEEE Photonics Journal, Volume 5, Number 5, October 2013 was selected by the editors to be highlighted at the IEEE Photonics Conference 2014, La Jolla, California in the ‘Hot Papers and Meet the Editors’ session, 12 October 2014.
  4. The paper entitled “Digital holographic microscopy for automated 3D cell identification: an overview” published in 2014 was chosen for the “2014′ Editor-in-Chief Choice Award” of Chinese Optics Letters, published by Optical Society of America.
  5. Xiao Xiao, Bahram Javidi, Manuel Martinez-Corral, and Adrian Stern, “Advances in three-dimensional integral imaging: sensing, display, and applications [Invited],” Applied Optics 52, 546-560 (2013) was named in March 2015 as the #2 top cited article according to Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science™ Science Citation Index Expanded over the last 2 years.
  6. The paper [V. Javier Traver, Pedro Latorre-Carmona, Eva Salvador-Balaguer, Filiberto Pla, and Bahram Javidi, “Human gesture recognition using three-dimensional integral imaging,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 31, pp 2312-2320 (2014)] was #1 among the Top Downloads of the Journal in October 2014.
  7. The paper [Manuel Martínez-Corral, Adrián Dorado, Héctor Navarro, Genaro Saavedra, and Bahram Javidi, “Three-dimensional display by smart pseudoscopic-to-orthoscopic conversion with tunable focus,” Applied Optics, Vol. 53, Issue 22, , E19-E25 (2014)], Appeared on the Cover of Applied Optics-Display Technology-Optics Infobase, August 2014.
  8. The paper [Hong Hua and Bahram Javidi, “A 3D integral imaging optical see-through head-mounted display,” Journal of Optics Express, 22, issue 11, pp 13484-13491, June 2, 2014] was showcased on the cover of the OSA Digital Library Optics Infobase WEB Site under the heading “New goggle-like device may lead to 3-D augmented reality technology that minimizes visual fatigue”]
  9. The paper [Hong Hua and Bahram Javidi, “A 3D integral imaging optical see-through head-mounted display,” Journal of Optics Express, 22, issue 11, pp 13484-13491, June 2, 2014] was #2 among the Top Downloads of the Journal in June 2014.
  10. Light in Focus, The Optical Society News Release entitled, “Sight for Sore Eyes: Augmented Reality without the Discomfort-New goggle-like device may lead to 3-D augmented reality technology that minimizes visual fatigue,” based on the paper “A 3-D integral imaging optical see-through head-mounted display,” H. Hua and B. Javidi,Optics Express, vol. 22, Issue 11, pp. 13484-13491 (2014).
    http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2014/sight_for_sore_eyes_augmented_reality_without_the/
  11. The paper, Wen Chen, Bahram Javidi, and Xudong Chen, “Advances in optical security systems,” Advances in Optics and Photonics 6, 120-15 (2014) was a top (#3) download article. [http://www.opticsinfobase.org/aop/issue.cfm]
  12. Our new Book has been published jointly by Wiley and IEEE: Multi-dimensional Imaging (Wiley – IEEE) – May 12, 2014 by Bahram Javidi, Enrique Tajahuerce, Pedro Andres