Regina Eckert
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About Me
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on computational imaging algorithms for remote sensing imaging spectroscopy for Earth Science applications. The calibration and atmospheric correction algorithms I am helping develop will apply to airborne instruments such as AVIRIS-Next Gen and satellite instruments such as EMIT.
As a Ph.D. student in the Computational Imaging Lab with Prof. Laura Waller in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, I developed computational imaging systems for high-resolution and high-dimensional microscopy as a part of the Berkeley Center for Computational Imaging (BCCI) and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR). I graduated with my PhD in August 2021.
While at U.C. Berkeley, I co-founded and acted as president for Bias Busters, a student organization focused on fighting structural barriers for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM. I helped organize a public forum and policy roundtable through the Science Policy Group at Berkeley. I also volunteered to teach science lessons in local elementary schools through EEGSA Outreach and Photobears and built community as social chair of Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
I graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in May 2015. As an undergraduate, I worked as a technical intern at Sandia National Laboratories.
Sedgwick Reserve, UC Santa Barbara Natural Reserve System
September, 2022
Selby Trail in Tilden Regional Park, CA
May, 2021
Moonrise over Redondo Peak, NM
November, 2020
Sunset over Berkeley, CA
March, 2020
Sandia Mountains
January, 2020
Prague Castle
July, 2019
Point Reyes National Seashore
May, 2019
Point Reyes National Seashore
February, 2019
EECS Golden Gate Bike Ride
November, 2018
Cappadocia, Turkey
September, 2018
Research
I am interested in the joint design of sensing hardware and computational processing systems.
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Spatially Constrained Retrieval for Imaging Spectroscopy, Regina Eckert, Steffen Mauceri, Philip G. Brodrick, Jay Fahlen, David R. Thompson. (in preparation)
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Atmospheric Lengthscales for Global VSWIR Imaging Spectroscopy, David R. Thompson, Niklas Bohn, Philip G. Brodrick, Nimrod Carmon, Michael L. Eastwood, Regina Eckert, Cédric G. Fichot, Joshua P. Harringmeyer, Hai M. Nguyen, Marc Simard, Andrew K. Thorpe. J. of Geophys. Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006711 (2022)
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Robust 3D Quantitative Phase Imaging, Regina Eckert. PhD Thesis, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2022-29 (2022)
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Self-calibrated 3D differential phase contrast microscopy with optimized illumination, Ruiming Cao, Michael Kellman, David Ren, Regina Eckert, Laura Waller. Biomed. Opt. Express 13, 1671-1684 (2022)
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Measurement diversity for 3D refractive index microscopy, Regina Eckert (invited talk), CVPR Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) 2021.
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Physics-based learning for measurement diversity in 3D refractive index microscopy, Regina Eckert, Michael R. Kellman, Laura Waller. SPIE, Photonics West 2020, Proceedings Volume 11245, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXVII; 112450X.
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High-resolution 3D refractive index microscopy of multiple-scattering samples from intensity imagesy, Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Michael Chen, Regina Eckert, David Ren, Fan Wu, Nicole Repina, and Laura Waller. Optica 6, 1211-1219 (2019).
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Pupil coding for increased measurement diversity in 3D Fourier ptychography, Regina Eckert, David Ren, Michael Chen, Emrah Bostan, Laura Waller. Optical Society of America, Imaging and Applied Optics 2019, paper CW3A.1.
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Low-cost, sub-micron resolution, wide-field computational microscopy using opensource hardware, Tomas Aidukas, Regina Eckert, Andrew R. Harvey, Laura Waller, Pavan C. Konda. Nature Scientific Reports Volume 9, Article number: 7457 (2019)
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3D phase imaging for thick biological samples, Regina Eckert, Michael Chen, Li-Hao Yeh, Laura Waller. SPIE, Photonics West 2019, Proceedings Volume 10883, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXVI; 108830V.
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High-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction of multiple-scattering objects from intensity-only measurements, Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Michael Chen, Regina Eckert, David Ren, Laura Waller. SPIE, Photonics West 2019, paper 10887-6.
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Efficient illumination angle self-calibration in Fourier ptychography, Regina Eckert, Zachary F. Phillips, Laura Waller. Appl. Opt. 57, 5434-5442 (2018).
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High-resolution 3D Phase Microscopy from Intensity, Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Regina Eckert, Michael Chen, Laura Waller. Optical Society of America, Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics Congress 2018, paper MF3A.5.
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3D Fourier ptychography in scattering media, Regina Eckert, Yasaman Daghighi, Hayden Taylor, Laura Waller. Focus on Microscopy 2018.
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Modeling light propagation in 3D phase objects, Regina Eckert, Nicole A. Repina, Michael Chen, Yishuang Liang, Ren Ng, Laura Waller. Optical Society of America, Imaging and Applied Optics 2017, paper DW2F.2.
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Quasi-Dome: A Self-Calibrated High-NA LED Illuminator for Fourier Ptychography, Zachary F. Phillips, Regina Eckert, Laura Waller. Optical Society of America, Imaging and Applied Optics 2017, paper IW4E. 5.
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Advances in 3D Fourier Ptychography, Regina Eckert, Kristina Monakhova, Zachary F. Philips, Yongbing Zhang, Lei Tian, Laura Waller. Poster. International Conference on Computational Photography 2017.
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Computational microscopy: illumination coding and nonlinear optimization enables gigapixel 3D phase imaging, Lei Tian, Li-Hao Yeh, Regina Eckert, Laura Waller. IEEE ICASSP 2017, p. 6225-6229.
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Algorithmic Self-calibration of Illumination Angles in Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy, Regina Eckert, Lei Tian, Laura Waller, Optical Society of America. Imaging and Applied Optics 2016, paper CT2D.3.
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Multi-Station Broad Regional Event Detection Using Waveform Correlation Megan E. Slinkard, Stephen Heck, Christopher J. Young, Regina Eckert, David Schaff, Paul Richards. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, abstract #S21B-2402.
Policy White Papers
- Establishing Privacy Advisory Commissions for the Regulation of Facial Recognition Systems at the Municipal Level Christopher Jackson, Morgan Livingston, Vetri Velan, Eric Lee, Kimberly Huynh, Regina Eckert. UC Berkeley: Science Policy Group (2020)
Work Experience
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2022 - present -
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Researcher, August 2015 - August 2021 -
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor, January 2019 - May 2019
Head of Content Team for EE16B: Designing Information Devices and Systems II -
Apple Inc.
Technical Intern, June 2018 - August 2018 -
University of New Mexico
Undergraduate Student Researcher, August 2014 - May 2015 -
Sandia National Laboratories
Technical Intern, January 2012 - July 2015
Awards & Distinctions
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EARSeL Young Scientist Second Place Best Speaker
2022 -
Rising Stars in EECS Participant
2020 -
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award
2020 -
Imaging and Applied Optics COSI 2019 Outstanding Student Paper award
2019 -
Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award
2019 -
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2016 -
Berkeley Graduate Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley, 2015 -
George E. Breece Memorial Prize
Highest GPA of the College of Engineering Graduating Class, Spring 2015
School of Engineering, University of New Mexico -
Outstanding Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of New Mexico, 2013-2015 -
National Merit Scholarship
2011
Organizations
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Science Policy Group at Berkeley
Member, 2019-present -
Bias Busters
Co-founder, 2016
President, 2016-2019
Vice President, 2019-2020
Member, 2016-present -
Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Social Chair, 2016-2017
Member, 2015-present -
EEGSA Outreach
Volunteer, 2015-2019 -
UC Berkeley Photobears
Student Chapter of SPIE, OSA, and IEEE Photonics Society
Volunteer Coordinator, 2016-2017
Member, 2016-present -
Sculpted Light in the Brain Conference 2017
Organizer, 2017 -
Optical Society of America
Student Member, 2016-present -
SPIE
Student Member, 2016-present -
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Photonics Society Member, 2016-present
Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Member, 2014-present
Student Member, 2013-present -
Tau Beta Pi
New Mexico Beta Chapter President, 2014-2015
Valles Caldera, NM
May 28, 2018
WallerLab Ski Trip at Heavenly, Lake Tahoe, CA/NV
February 24, 2018
