{"id":1705,"date":"2023-11-28T19:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/jsu\/?page_id=1705"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:00:33","slug":"judy-su","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/our-team\/judy-su\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Su"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Associate Professor of Optical Sciences
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Judith Su<\/strong> is a Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics from Caltech. Her lab develops next-generation optical sensing platforms and applies them in collaboration with leading researchers to address critical challenges in science, medicine, and society.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is a Fellow of Optica and SPIE and is the recipient of numerous awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, the 2024 ASME Rising Star Award, the American Society of Laser Surgery and Medicine Young Investigator Award, the Journal of Physics Photonics<\/em> 2023 Early Career Award, and recognition in the 2024 Photonics100<\/em> list of the field\u2019s most innovative people. She has also been a Siegman International School on Lasers Lecturer, and was a Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell Fellow. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Human Exposome Project, which seeks to define and measure the environmental determinants of human health.<\/p>\n

Dr. Su gave a keynote talk at SPIE Photonics West in 2022 and has held leadership roles in major international conferences. She served as the General Co-Chair of Optica\u2019s Advanced Photonics Congress, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) Conference in Busan, Korea (2023), Quebec City, Canada (2024), and most recently in Marseille, France (2025).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2014
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 2004
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering; Minor: Literature, 2002<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Optica Fellow, 2026
NIH Quantum Sensing Challenge Prize, Stage 1 team winner. Team Lead: Pri Narang, 2025
SPIE Fellow, 2025
Selected Feature, Optics & Photonics News<\/em> \u201cYear in Optics\u201d (2016, 2025)<\/span> \u2014 “Each year, <\/span>Optics & Photonics News<\/em>\u2014the monthly magazine of <\/span>Optica \u2014highlights the most exciting optics research from around the world.” Recognized for FLOWER (2016) and for label-free optical mapping of single 5-nm quantum dots (2025, featured on the cover).
<\/span>American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) rising star, 2024
<\/span>NSF CAREER award, CAREER: Bioinspired optical sniffer based on microtoroid resonators and science and technology convergence, 2023
<\/span>NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, 2020
<\/span>Keynote talk at SPIE Photonics West 2022 on \u201cRecent advances in microtoroid optical molecular sensing technology for biomedical and environmental applications\u201d
<\/span>American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional Young Investigator Award, 2019
<\/span>Outstanding paper award, Light: Science & Applications, 2018
<\/span>Participant, 2nd U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2024
<\/span>Optical Society of America\u2019s Siegman International School Lecturer, August 2017
<\/span>Photonics 100, 2024, Given to the industry\u2019s most innovative people
<\/span>Journal of Phys Photonics Emerging Leaders Award, 2023
<\/span>Featured in the 2020 SPIE Women in Optics planner which highlights \u201cwomen who are making a difference through their work and other contributions to the fields of science, optics, and engineering\u201d.
<\/span>National Academy of Inventors, Senior Member, 2022
<\/span>Optical Society of America, Senior Member, 2021
<\/span>Sigma Xi Member, 2020
<\/span>Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation & Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2018
<\/span>University of Arizona, Convergence Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (Applied Research and Engineering), University of Arizona\u2019s highest research honor, 2026
<\/span>University of Arizona, Office of the Provost, and Faculty Affairs, Arizona Champion, (this honors 1-2 Arizona champions at a special football game in recognizing their achievements and contributions to the University community), 2023
<\/span>University of Arizona, University Early Career Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award, 2023
<\/span>University of Arizona, Inaugural Class, Women of Impact, 2022
<\/span>University of Arizona, Inaugural Class, Research Leadership Institute, 2022
<\/span>University of Arizona, College of Engineering, Dean\u2019s Award for Outstanding Early Career Faculty, 2022 (awarded to one for excellence in teaching, research, and service)
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Principal Investigator Academic Positions Associate Professor of Optical SciencesAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringAssociate Professor of BIO5 Institute Bio Judith Su is a Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"parent":1522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1705","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":97,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705\/revisions\/2353"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}