Kevin Eliceiri, Ph.D., is the RRF Walter H. Helmerich Professor of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is an investigator in the Morgridge Institute for Research and member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center. He is also associate director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute and director of the Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging. His laboratory (known as the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI)) is a biophotonics research group dedicated to the development and application of optical and computational technologies for cell studies. They are contributing lead developers to several open-source imaging software packages including FIJI, ImageJ2 and μManager. His open hardware instrumentation efforts involve novel forms of polarization, laser scanning and multiscale imaging. Eliceiri has authored more than 260 scientific papers on various aspects of optical imaging, image analysis, cancer and live cell imaging.
Research Statement
Innovation in scientific instrumentation is an important aspect of research at UW–Madison, in part due to efforts of researchers such as Kevin Eliceiri, professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering.
Since 2000, Eliceiri has been lead investigator of his lab known as the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI), with a research focus developing novel optical imaging methods for investigating cell signaling and cancer progression, and the development of software for multidimensional image analysis. LOCI has been contributing lead developers to several open-source imaging software packages including FIJI, ImageJ2 and μManager. His open hardware instrumentation efforts involve novel forms of polarization, laser scanning and multiscale imaging.
Using the open hardware laser scanning platform known as OpenScan Eliceiri plans to evaluate what are the most relevant best practices from open source software that can be applied to hardware and what are unique open hardware criterion needs that have to be implemented for successful sharing of open hardware.
Eliceiri, a highly cited researcher, has authored more than 260 scientific papers on various aspects of optical imaging, image analysis, cancer and live cell imaging