Judith Su is a Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Judith received her B.S. and M.S. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and her Ph.D. from Caltech in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics. Her lab focuses on building next generation optical sensing platforms and, with these sensors, collaborating with top researchers to solve the most significant and pressing problems in science, medicine, and issues confronting society. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, a 2024 ASME rising star award, an American Society of Laser Surgery and Medicine Young Investigator Award, the Journal of Physics Photonics 2023 Early Career Award, and is one of the 2024 Photonics100 which recognizes the industry’s most innovative people. She was a Siegman International School on Lasers Lecturer and a Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell Fellow. She was on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She gave a keynote talk at SPIE Photonics West 2022 and in 2023 served as the general co-chair for Optica’s Advanced Photonics Congress, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) Conference in Busan, Korea. In 2024, she was the general co-chair of the same conference in Quebec City, Canada, and will continue in this role for the 2025 meeting in Marseille, France.

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