Adam Wax is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He is also the member of Optical Society of America. His research interests include optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.

Developed a set of novel spectroscopic techniques for measuring spatial, temporal and refractive structure on sub-hertz and sub-wavelength scales based on using low-coherence interferometry (LCI) to detect scattered light. This work has potential as a diagnostic method for early cancer detection

He completed PhD and MA from Duke University and BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.