Judith Su

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 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. 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 2023 Early Career Award, and recognition in the 2024 Photonics100 list of the field’s 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. 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’s Advanced Photonics Congress, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) Conference in Busan, Korea (2023), Quebec City, Canada (2024), and most recently in Marseille, France (2025).