Dr. David Brady, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke Kunshan University and Fitzpatrick Family Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Duke University, was recently selected for the Jiangsu Province 100-Talent Program, according to Jiangsu Provincial Bureau for Foreign Experts Affairs.
Dr. David Brady obtained his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Caltech in Applied Physics. Before he joined Duke University as the founding director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics in 2001, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A widely cited and internationally respected expert in the areas of optical imaging and spectroscopy, computational imaging and compressive measurement, Dr. Brady is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dr. David Brady’s Nature paper on gigapixel cameras and array camera video was among the top 100 science stories of 2012 by Discover and Popular Science magazines. He is also the inventor of some foundational US patents in compressive measurement. In 2013, he won the Dennis Gabor award in recognition of his development of compressive holographic and tomographic imaging systems and for advances in the physical and information science of imaging and spectroscopy.
Currently, Dr. David Brady is working on building a new degree program on digital camera technology at Duke Kunshan University. Looking to align his research with industry needs in China, Dr. Brady is spearheading a partnership between Duke Kunshan University and local Kunshan companies as well as Chinese universities to reduce the power requirements, the volume and the costs of camera manufacturing by an order of magnitude.
The 100 Talent Program aims to introduce global high-end talents to Jiangsu province. Winners of the program will receive a fund of up to 500,000 RMB from the Jiangsu government as well as other policy benefits.
Among the 35 scholars who received the honor this year, Dr. Brady is the only one from a Sino-foreign joint venture university, a recognition of research excellence for Dr. Brady, Duke University and Duke Kunshan University.
