Michael Chen
Image Scientist at Spectral Coded Illumination
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Chen is an image scientist and computational imaging specialist with a decade of experience designing optical systems, automating image acquisition, and building algorithms that enable Giga-pixel 2D/3D quantitative imaging for practical applications. He co-founded Spectral Coded Illumination to deliver hardware and software add-ons for microscopes and currently applies his expertise at Apple, translating advanced research into product-ready imaging systems. His PhD work at UC Berkeley produced single-shot color-multiplexed phase imaging and 3D refractive-index recovery techniques that push resolution beyond objective NA and enable micron-scale depth imaging in thick samples. Comfortable across optics, GPU-accelerated inverse algorithms, and end-to-end system integration, he bridges lab prototypes and scalable implementations. An inventor-entrepreneur by practice, he pairs deep academic contributions with hands-on hardware development and startup execution in the Bay Area.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Imaging, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Imaging at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (MS), Photonics, 4.00, Master of Science (MS), Photonics, 4.00 at National Chiao Tung UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
opt9
quantitative9
contrast8
microscopy8
dpc7
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Waller-Lab/DPC_withAberrationCorrection
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
M. Chen, Z. F. Phillips, and L. Waller, Quantitative differential phase contrast (DPC) microscopy with computational aberration correction, Opt. Express 26(25), 32888-32899 (2018).
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
chendpcexpressoptcorrection
Waller-Lab/3DQuantitativeDPC
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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