James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
He has been part of the MIT faculty since 1985 and is currently Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
He contributed to the invention of optical coherence tomography.
[1] In addition to his work on OCT he has also contributed to the development of femtosecond lasers.
[2][3] Professor Fujimoto was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.