James Fujimoto
James G. Fujimoto | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Japanese-American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | optical coherence tomography; |
| Awards | Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (2001) (2011) Champalimaud Vision Award (2012) Frederic Ives Medal (2015) Russ Prize (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He has been part of the MIT faculty since 1985 and is currently Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is known for his leading role in the invention of a novel medical imaging modality named optical coherence tomography[1] that is now a standard of care for diagnosis and treatment of several diseases with widespread adoption in ophthalmology.[2]
Professor Fujimoto was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for pioneering contributions to and commercialization of optical coherence tomography (OCT). He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published over 400 journal articles.
Awards & Honors[]
- 2001 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- 2001 Fellow of the American Physical Society[3]
- 2001 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics
- 2011
- 2012 Champalimaud Vision Award[4]
- 2013 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award[5]
- 2014 IEEE Photonics Award
- 2015 Frederic Ives Medal
- 2017 Russ Prize.
References[]
- ^ Huang D, Swanson EA, Lin CP, Schuman JS, Stinson WG, Chang W, Hee MR, Flotte T, Gregory K, Puliafito CA, Fujimoto JG (1991). "Optical Coherence Tomography". Science. 254 (5035): 1178–1181. doi:10.1126/science.1957169. PMC 4638169. PMID 1957169.
- ^ Boyd, Kierstan (14 October 2015). "What Is Optical Coherence Tomography?". American Academy of Ophthalmology. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award". Champalimaud Foundation. 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ "BioMedical Optics Award - SPIE". spie.org. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
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- Living people
- MIT School of Engineering faculty
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Optical coherence tomography
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Optical engineers
- Electrical engineering academics
- American electrical engineers
- American academics of Japanese descent