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George Barbastathis

Contact Info

room 3-461C

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Education

  • 1993

    NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

    B.Eng.
  • 1994

    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    M.Sc.
  • 1998

    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    Ph.D.

Research Interests

  • Optical imaging
  • Holography
  • Statistical optics
  • Compressive imaging
  • Artificial dielectrics
  • Nonlinear Hamiltonian optics
     

Honors + Awards

  • 2011, Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • 2015, China One Thousand Scholar Award
  • 2022, Ruth and Joel Spira Award
  • 2022, SPIE Fellow 

Memberships

  • Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Society for Photo Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Professional Service

  • program/general chair at numerous conferences and conference committees

MIT Service

  • 2014-present, Area Head for Controls, Instrumentation and Robotics

Teaching

  • Optics (2.71 / 2.710)
  • Optical Engineering (2.717)
  • Instrumentation (2.671)
  • Systems and Control (2.004, 2.04A)
  • Mechanics (2.001)