Mini Das
Applied physicist
About Mini Das
Mini Das was an applied physicist.
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.
Education and career 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.
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.
Recognition Das was named as a Fellow of SPIE in 2022, and as a 2026 Fellow of Optica. 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".
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