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\"\"Principle Investigator<\/p>\n

Xiaojun Cheng, PhD,<\/p>\n

Research Assistant Professor<\/p>\n

xcheng17@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

EDUCATION<\/span>
\nPeking University, China, Physics, BS<\/span>
\nCity University of New York, Physics, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Current<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Tom Cheng<\/p>\n

Graduate Student<\/p>\n

tomcheng@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Research focus: SCOS, DCS for human brain measurements<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Alexander Howard<\/p>\n

Graduate Student<\/p>\n

ach12345@bu.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Research focus: SCOS, fNIRS for human brain measurements, tomography<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Byungchan (Kenny) Kim<\/p>\n

Graduate Student<\/p>\n

tomcheng@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Research focus: SCOS, DCS, fNIRS for human brain measurements<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Allen Zhou<\/p>\n

Research Associate<\/p>\n

agzhou@bu.edu<\/p>\n

Research focus: functional ultrasound<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Emily Long<\/p>\n

Research Assistant<\/p>\n

elong@bu.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Focus: Animal measurements, Laser speckle contrast imaging<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Chenyi Jiang<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Researcher<\/p>\n

chenyij@bu.edu<\/p>\n

Research Focus: human brain optical imaging<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Heewon Park<\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate Researcher<\/p>\n

heewon@bu.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Focus: Optode engineering<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Sreekanth Kura<\/p>\n

Research Fellow<\/p>\n

skura@bu.edu<\/p>\n

Research focus: data analysis, software development, machine learning<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Alumni<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Bingxue Liu<\/p>\n

Graduate Student<\/p>\n

Senior Scientist, Hologic<\/p>\n

bliu97@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Research focus: microscopy, OCT, SCOS for mouse brain imaging, functional ultrasound<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Sharvari Zilpelwar, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Optical Sensing Engineer, ASML<\/span><\/p>\n

sharz@bu.edu<\/p>\n

Research focus: SCOS, LSCI, computational modeling<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Teah Serani<\/p>\n

Graduate Student (MS)<\/span><\/p>\n

tserani@bu.edu<\/p>\n

Research focus: fNIRS data processing, machine learning<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Shangzhou Yin<\/p>\n

Graduate Student (MS)<\/span><\/p>\n

syin10@bu.edu<\/p>\n

Research focus: fNIRS data processing, machine learning<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principle Investigator Xiaojun Cheng, PhD, Research Assistant Professor xcheng17@bu.edu EDUCATION Peking University, China, Physics, BS City University of New York, Physics, PhD   Current Tom Cheng Graduate Student tomcheng@bu.edu Research focus: SCOS, DCS for human brain measurements   Alexander Howard Graduate Student ach12345@bu.edu Research focus: SCOS, fNIRS for human brain measurements, tomography   Byungchan (Kenny) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14271,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}