Leaderboards/Digital Holography and Microscopy

Digital Holography and Microscopy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Christoffer Edlund
Sartorius (Germany)
2
Zhengzhong Huang
Tsinghua University
3
Malte Plidschun
Schott (Germany)
4
Vinoth Balasubramani
National Taiwan Normal University
5
Hanlong Chen
California NanoSystems Institute
6
Daixuan Wu
South China Normal University
7
Nils Wagner
Technical University of Munich
8
Luzhe Huang
University of California, Los Angeles
9
Pierre Jouchet
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Gustavo de Medeiros
ETH Zurich

Rising Stars Papers

1
Quantitative phase imaging based on holography: trends and new perspectives
Light Science & Applications|2024
236 cit.
2
Ultrahigh-throughput single-pixel complex-field microscopy with frequency-comb acousto-optic coherent encoding (FACE)
Light Science & Applications|2025
12 cit.
3
Active manipulation of the optical spectral memory effect via scattering eigenchannels
Advanced Photonics Nexus|2025
4 cit.
4
Electrothermal-coupled flexible microwave resonant icing sensor Array
Microelectronic Engineering|2025
2 cit.
5
Refractive index analysis of KCl treated neurons using holographic tomography
Unknown Journal|2024
1 cit.
6
Research on stress mutation of fiber optic gyroscope
Microelectronic Engineering|2025
1 cit.
7
Single-molecule orientation and position measurement assisted by deep learning and point spread function engineering
Biophysical Journal|2024
0 cit.
8
Experiment-data-free self-supervised neural network for holographic microscopy imaging
Unknown Journal|2024
0 cit.
9
Optimized measurement of the 3D position and orientation of single molecules thanks to deep learning and PSF engineering
Unknown Journal|2024
0 cit.
10
Neural network uncertainty quantification in inverse imaging problems based on cycle consistency
Unknown Journal|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Adam Markman
Konica Minolta (United States)
2
Felix Heide
Stanford University
3
Lingzhi Fu
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
4
Chengfei Guo
University of Connecticut
5
Rickard Sjögren
Umeå University
6
Mustafa Mir
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
7
Greta Babakhanova
National Institute of Standards and Technology
8
Xiaomeng Sui
University of Cambridge
9
Robert Prevedel
Italian Institute of Technology
10
Angika Bulbul
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
High-resolution line-scan Brillouin microscopy for live imaging of mechanical properties during embryo development
Nature Methods|2023
97 cit.
2
Diffusion-SDF: Conditional Generative Modeling of Signed Distance Functions
Unknown Journal|2023
89 cit.
3
Instance Segmentation in the Dark
International Journal of Computer Vision|2023
86 cit.
4
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography
Light Science & Applications|2024
72 cit.
5
Pulsed stimulated Brillouin microscopy enables high-sensitivity mechanical imaging of live and fragile biological specimens
Nature Methods|2023
56 cit.
6
Neural étendue expander for ultra-wide-angle high-fidelity holographic display
Nature Communications|2024
47 cit.
7
Neural Point Light Fields
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
42 cit.
8
Seeing through obstructions with diffractive cloaking
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2022
34 cit.
9
Depth-multiplexed ptychographic microscopy for high-throughput imaging of stacked bio-specimens on a chip
Biosensors and Bioelectronics|2022
33 cit.
10
Spectral-envelope modulated double-phase method for computer-generated holography
Optics Express|2022
29 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Bahram Javidi
University of Connecticut
2
Aydogan Özcan
California NanoSystems Institute
3
Gabriel Popescu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
Christian Depeursinge
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
5
YongKeun Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
6
Pietro Ferraro
TomTom (Netherlands)
7
Michael S. Feld
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
8
Miles J. Padgett
University of Glasgow
9
Changhuei Yang
California Institute of Technology
10
Xiaowei Zhuang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)
Nature Methods|2006
8.3k cit.
2
Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
Physical Review Letters|1997
6.7k cit.
3
Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications
Advances in Optics and Photonics|2011
3.2k cit.
4
Spatially resolved, highly multiplexed RNA profiling in single cells
Science|2015
3.1k cit.
5
Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy
Science|2008
2.9k cit.
6
Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier plane random encoding
Optics Letters|1995
2.6k cit.
7
All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks
Science|2018
2.4k cit.
8
Tweezers with a twist
Nature Photonics|2011
2.2k cit.
9
Wide-field, high-resolution Fourier ptychographic microscopy
Nature Photonics|2013
1.8k cit.
10
Quantitative phase imaging in biomedicine
Nature Photonics|2018
1.8k cit.

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