The Foundation helps organizing the best paper/presentation competition at
the Quantitative Phase Imaging Conference, BIOS, Photonics West and
provides a financial award to the winner
in Gabi's memory.
Year
Gariel Popescu Award winner
Finalists - Best Presentation Awards
2026
Hyobin Cho, The University of Texas at Austin
Inverse-scattering for joint refractive-index reconstruction and adaptive field-of-view expansion from samples undergoing simultaneous angled illumination and translational motion
Yang, Hyobin, Mihaela Josh, Yang, Mihaela
Josh Lerner, Duke University
Extremely high-throughput quantitative phase imaging of live cells with a multi-camera array microscope”
Zih-Ying Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Computational aberration correction for epi-mode intensity-based QPI systems
2025
Alex Matlock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Snapshot sickle cell biophysical parameter recovery and analysis using Interferometric phase and amplitude microscopy (iPAM)
Yunhui, Mircea, Alex, Yang, Yoonjae
Yoonjae Chung, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Three-dimensional imaging of absorptive microscopic objects using partially coherent illumination
Yunhui Gao, Tsinghua University, China
Exploiting spatiotemporal priors for motion-resolved computational microscopy
2024
Herve J. Hugonnet, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Aberration Corrected Reflection Tomography for Ultra-High Resolution and Versatile Reflection Measurement
Yang, Yuechuan, Herve, Geon, Paul, Mircea
Yuechuan Lin, MIT, USA
Single-Shot Full-Field Reflection-Mode Off-Axis Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Temporal Focusing
Geon Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Label-Free Cytological Characterization of Blasts with NPM1 Mutation Using Holotomography and Machine Learning