Please congratulate Rosario Porras-Aguilar, for her 2021 NSF CAREER AWARD: Smart Imaging and Metrology enabled by Liquid Crystal. This CeFO related project addresses the critical need for a reconfigurable imaging system that provides the required image information with quantitative attributes and high specificity by smart and adaptive selectivity of spatial frequency content. The spatial frequency content of an image carries information on the size, shape, and orientation of the object or features to be analyzed. Selective enhancement, or isolation of key spatial frequencies, for the object will include background noise from small-angle scatter, for example, which reduces visibility. The goal of this project is to address these issues and provide a new mathematical framework for wavefront, and hence spatial frequency, shaping to enhance those spatial frequencies relevant to improved imaging. This framework will provide new fundamental knowledge to advance nonlinear imaging and smart adaptive methods based on nonlinear effects for general imaging needs. Read More…
She was also awarded the prestigious Cottrell Award outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy.Read More…