Stephen Boppart

Professor Stephen A. Boppart Ph.D., M.D.
Professor Stephen Boppart sitting in front of optical table in the Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advance Science and Technology on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus
Born	1968 Harvard, Illinois
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S.)(M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) Harvard Medical School (M.D.)
Awards	Soma Weiss Biomedical Research Award (1999) Technology Review Magazine Top 100 Young Innovators (2002) NSF Career Award (2004) Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award (2011) Abel Bliss Professorship in Engineering (2011) Hans Sigrist Prize (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Biophotonics
Institutions	Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carle Foundation Hospital
Thesis	Surgical diagnostics, guidance, and intervention using optical coherence tomography (1998)
Doctoral advisor	James Fujimoto
Other academic advisors	Bruce Wheeler
Website	biophotonics.illinois.edu

Stephen A. Boppart is a principal investigator at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he holds an Abel Bliss Professorship in engineering.^[1] He is a faculty member in the departments of electrical and computer engineering, bioengineering, and internal medicine. His research focus is biophotonics, where he has pioneered new optical imaging technologies in the fields of optical coherence tomography, multi-photon microscopy, and computational imaging.^[2]