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Mini Das is an Indian and American interdisciplinary applied physicist and engineer specializing in image processing, with applications in biology, medicine, and materials science. She is a Moores Professor at the University of Houston, with appointments in the departments of physics, biomedical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Das has a 1998 master's degree in optoelectronics and lasers from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in India. She completed a Ph.D. in 2003 at IIT Delhi, with a dissertation on inverse scattering transforms that also involved work as a visiting researcher at Bell Labs.[2]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut, and then beginning in at the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. She obtained a regular-rank assistant professorship in radiology at UMass in 2010, before moving to the University of Houston as an assistant professor in 2011.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Das was named as a Fellow of SPIE in 2022, and as a 2026 Fellow of Optica.[3] Her Optica fellowship honored her "for pioneering contributions to low-coherence X-ray phase retrieval, imaging system development, spectral X-ray computed tomography, and image perception".[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Mini Das", Physics faculty profiles, University of Houston, retrieved 2026-04-10
- 1 2 "Candidate biographies" (PDF), IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Election, IEEE, p. 9, 2014, retrieved 2026-04-10
- ↑ Smith, Kristoffer (1 December 2025), "Mini Das Named 2026 Optica Fellow", News & Events, University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, retrieved 2026-04-10
- ↑ "Meet the 2026 Optica Fellows", Elected Fellows, Optica, retrieved 2026-04-10
External links
[edit]- Imaging Innovations Laboratory (Das Laboratory)
- Mini Das publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- Indian physicists
- Indian women physicists
- Indian engineers
- 21st-century Indian women engineers
- 21st-century American engineers
- 21st-century Indian engineers
- American physicists
- American women physicists
- American engineers
- American women engineers
- Applied physicists
- Cochin University of Science and Technology alumni
- IIT Delhi alumni
- UMass Chan Medical School faculty
- University of Houston faculty
- Fellows of SPIE
- Fellows of Optica (society)