John_Miao

Coherent Imaging Group at UCLA

Office: 3-939 PAB
Phone: (310) 825-1140
email

Coherent Imaging Group Website
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Education

• Ph. D., Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 12/1999
• M. S., Computer Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 5/1999
• Advanced Graduate Certificate, Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 5/1999
• M. S., Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7/1994
• B. S., Physics, Hangzhou University, P. R. China, 7/1991

Professional Experience

• Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California NanoSystems Institute, the University of California, Los Angeles, 7/2009 - Present
• Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California NanoSystems Institute, the University of California, Los Angeles, 7/2007 - 7/2009
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 8/2004 - 7/2007
• Staff Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, 1/2000 - 7/2004

Honors, Awards

• Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA, 2006-2007
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2006
  
• Guest Scientist, RIKEN (the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan, 2001 – Present.
• Co-recipient of Werner Meyer-Ilse Memorial Award at the 6th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy, for “his contributions to the development of X-ray image formation based on the recording and reconstruction of the diffraction pattern from a non-crystalline object”, 1999.
• Whitaker Foundation Scholarship, 1997-1999.
• Outstanding Student of the Year Award, Hangzhou University, 1990-1991.

Professional Activities

• Co-team leader of the Coherent Diffraction Imaging experiment on the Linac Coherent Light Source,
  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2005 - present
  
• Proposal Review Panel, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 2002 – 2004.
• International Advisory Board for the 2nd International Workshop on Noncrystallographic Phase Retrieval, Australia, July, 2003.
• Chair, X-ray Imaging and Spectro-Microscopy Workshop, SLAC, Stanford, Oct. 8-9, 2002.
• Chair, Microsymposium on Holography and X-ray Microscopy, XIX Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 8-15, 2002.
• Session Chair, the 28th Annual SSRL Users Meeting, SLAC, Stanford, Oct. 18-19, 2001.
• Co-chair, International Phasing Workshop: New Approaches to the Phase Problem, Berkeley, May 17-19, 2001.
• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Member, American Physical Society

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the interplay of physics, nanoscience and biology. I am particularly interested in developing new physical methods for quantitative imaging of nanoscale materials and biological specimens in three dimensions. I have played a major role in pioneering a three-dimensional imaging approach based upon the principle of using coherent diffraction in combination with a method of direct phase recovery called oversampling. I, together with my graduate students and postdocs, will continue to improve the spatial resolution of this imaging technique and pursue its applications in nanoscience and biology by using optical lasers, coherent X-rays and electrons.