Meet The SCI Team

With a combined 30+ years of experience in computational imaging and coded illumination techniques, our Berkeley-based team is in a unique position to lead the industry into a new era of imaging.

 
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Zack Phillips PH.D.

CEO and Chief Hardware Engineer. Zack holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. Zack has extensive experience developing high-quality hardware prototypes for computational imaging systems, including the AWARE Gigapixel Camera and Computational CellScope


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Michael Chen, Ph.D.

CFO and Chief Software and Algorithms Engineer. Michael holds a Ph.D. from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, Michael has been developing various computational microscopy techniques for quantitative phase imaging, including high-resolution 2D real-time imaging and 3D phase tomography.


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Laura Waller, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor to SCI, Laura is the Ted Van Duzer Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where she heads a world-class research group in the field of computational imaging. See more about Laura at www.laurawaller.com


We Founded SCI Microscopy with the goal of enhancing and enriching the field of optical microscopy using computational illumination. Together, we have have published over 15 journal publications and have presented at over 30 conferences in the field of computational imaging.

— SCI Team