Tianlab Alums
Ph.D. Students
1. Alex Matlock (2016 – 2021)
Now: Postdoc @ MIT, Peter So Group
Thesis: Model and learning-based strategies for intensity diffraction tomography
Awards:
– 2020 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award, OSA Frontier in Optics
– 2019 BU ECE Travel Grant
– 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
– 2017 BU Photonics Center Student Travel Award
2. Waleed Tahir (2016 – 2021)
First Job: Imaging Scientist @ PathAI
Thesis: Deep learning for large-scale holographic 3D particle localization and two-photon angiography segmentation
Awards:
– 2020 Best Summer Intern Award for Outstanding Innovation in Nokia Bell Labs Global Intern Program
– 2017 BU Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award
– 2017 BU Photonics Center Student Travel Award
3. Yujia Xue (2017 – 2022)
First job: Imaging Scientist @ Apple
Thesis: Computational miniature mesoscope for large-scale 3D fluorescence imaging
Awards:
– 2020 IEEE Photonics Conference Best Student Paper Finalists
– 2020 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award
– 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
– 2021 Best Summer Intern Award, Nokia Bell Labs
4. Yunzhe Li (2017 – 2022)
Now: Postdoc @ UC Berkeley, Laura Waller Group
Thesis: Model and learning-based strategies for intensity diffraction tomography
Awards: Robust Deep Learning for Computational Imaging through Random Optics
– Hariri Graduate Student Fellow (2020)
M.S. Students (* joined Tian lab for PhD)
- Weichen Jiang, 2022
- Hongyi Rao, 2022
- Kehan Guo, 2021, Next stop –> PhD @ University of Notre Dame
- Elise Weir, 2021 Summer
- Simon Gilbert, 2020 – 2021
- * Joe Greene, 2018 – 2019
- MS thesis: Miniscope Pupil Engineering using Binary Diffractive Optics
- Ruilong Ling, 2016 – 2017
- Kasim Patel, 2016 – 2017, Next stop –> Data Scientist @ Dataiku
Undergraduate Students
- Stephen Sweet, 09/2021 – 12/2021
- Euijin Jung, 09/2021 – 12/2021
- Jin San Yoon, 09/2021 – 12/2021
- Antonio Alonso, 05/2021 – 12/2021
- Yang Yu, 05/2021 – 12/2021
- Grayson Wiggins, 2020 – 2021
- Yousuf Baker, 2020 – 2021, Next stop –> MS @ Columbia University
- Benjamin Wong, UROP 2018 – 2020
- Lin Zhang, UROP 2018 – 2020
- David Kirk, UROP 2016 – 2017
- Rahul Rajaram, UROP Spring 2018
- Hung-Ching Lin, UROP Fall 2017
- Napassorn Lerdsudwichai, UROP 2016 – 2017
- Yen Pham, UROP Fall 2016
Visiting Students (* joined Tian lab for PhD)
- David Belman, NSF REU, 06/2022 – 08/2022 (Santa Monica College).
- *Suet (Rachel) Chan, BUPC PURSUE program, 06/2021 – 08/2021 (University of Rochester).
- Jennifer Figueroa, NSF REU, 06/2021 – 08/2021 (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico).
- Benedict Diederich, 11/2018 – 04/2019 (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany).
- Joy Muthami, NSF REU 2017, University of Delaware
- Ángel David Rodríguez, 07/2016 – 12/2016 (Photonics Research Group GROC·UJI, Universitat Jaume I, Spain).
High School Students
- Vivian Li, RISE intern 2022
- Anthony Jiang, RISE intern 2019
- Karena Kong, RISE intern 2017
- Kelly Pu, Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) program intern 2017