Prof. Stephen Boppart

Stephen Boppart received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, followed by a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2000. Currently Prof. Boppart is a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Nanoelectronics and Biophotonics Group as well as an associate professor in the UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Bioengineering Department. In January 2007, he was named the Founding Director of the Mills Breast Cancer Institute at Carle Foundation Hospital. Within the ECE department, he has taught ECE 414 - Biomedical Instrumentation, ECE 415 - Biomedical Instrumentation Lab, ECE 460 - Optical Imaging and ECE 498 - Biophotonics. Dr. Boppart is also a Clinical Research Physician in the UI College of Medicine-Urbana. His fields of professional interest include optical imaging (specifically in Optical Coherence Tomography) and biophotonics in medicine and biology.

Contact Information: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 405 North Mathews Avenue, Room 4155 Urbana, IL 61801 TEL (217) 244-7479, FAX (217) 244-1995 boppart@uiuc.edu Mills Breast Cancer Institute 611 West Park Street Urbana, IL 61801 TEL (217) 326-6224, FAX (217) 326-0285 Stephen.Boppart@carle.com