Laura Ann Waller is a computer scientist and Ted Van Duzer Endowed Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

[4] Her Masters thesis considered the design of feedback loops and experimental testing techniques for integrated optics.

[4] In 2010 she completed her doctoral studies under the supervision of George Barbastathis[5] where her thesis investigated developed new techniques to image phase and amplitude.

[6] She played on the MIT Women's Varsity soccer team and was president of The Optical Society student chapter.

[14] She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award holder, allowing her research group to build computational and experimental software for imaging 4D partially spatially coherent light.