Judy Su

Judith Su is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Judith received her B.S. and M.S. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and her Ph.D. from Caltech in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics. Her background is in sensing, imaging, microfabrication, and optical instrument building for biological and medical applications. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, and an American Society of Laser Surgery and Medicine Young Investigator Award. She was a Siegman International School on Lasers Lecturer, and is a Scialog Fellow, a senior member of the Optical Society of America, a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, a senior member of SPIE, and a full member of Sigma Xi.  She is on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, the Editorial Advisory Board of Translational Biophotonics, an associate editor of Optics and Laser Technology, an associate editor of SPIE’s Journal of Optical Microsystems, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Femtorays Technologies, and was on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She gave a keynote talk at SPIE Photonics West 2022 and is on the technical program committee for CLEO (2022-Present), IEEE Photonics (2022-Present), and SPIE Photonics West (Label-free biomedical imaging and sensing, 2024-Present). She was co-general chair for Optica’s 2023 Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) Conference in Busan, Korea and is co-general chair for IPR in 2024 in Quebec City, Canada. Her work has been funded by the NIH, NSF, DTRA, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, Flinn Foundation, Partnership for Clean Competition, Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, Cargill, Incorporated, and the University of Arizona Cancer Center.