Fei Xia

Fei Xia completed her Ph.D. at Cornell and her postdoc at École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. She leads a research team working at the interface of 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. Fei has been recognized with several major awards and honors, including the 2024 Rising Star in Light, 2023 Optica Foundation Challenge Award, 2022 Seal of Excellence for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, 2022 SPIE Women in Optics, 2020 Data Open Championship and the 2019 Mong NeuroTech Fellowship.