Tianlab Alums

Postdocs

1. Shuying Li (2023-2025)
Now: Assistant Professor @ Miami University

 

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: 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
Internship: PathAI, Nokia Bell Labs

3. Yujia Xue (2017 – 2022)
First job:  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
Internship: Nokia Bell Labs

4. Yunzhe Li (2017 – 2022)
Now: Postdoc @ UC Berkeley, Laura Waller Group
Thesis:Robust Deep Learning for Computational Imaging through Random Optics
Awards: 
– Hariri Graduate Student Fellow (2020)

5. Shiyi Cheng (2018 – 2023)
First job: Apple
Thesis: Augmenting Label-free Imaging Modalities with Deep Learning based Digital Staining
Awards:
– nac Image Technology Best Presentation Award at SPIE Photonics West BIOS (2021)
Internship: Philips

6. Joseph Greene (2018 – 2024)
First job: Georgia Tech Research Institute
Thesis: Computational Extended Depth of Field Fluorescence Microscopy in Miniaturized and Tabletop Platforms
Awards:
– BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship (2020)
– NSF NRT fellowship in NSF NRT UtB: Neurophotonics National Research Traineeship Program (2020)
Internship: MIT Lincoln Labs, Georgia Tech Research Institute

7. Hao Wang (2019 – 2024)
First job: Huawei
Thesis: Advancing Optical Metrology Through Computational Imaging Techniques
Awards:
– Hariri Graduate Student Fellow (2021)
– Best Student Paper Award, Optica Imaging Congress (2023).
Internship: Meta

8. Chang Liu (2020-2025)
First job: Apple
Thesis: Pushing the Limits of SNR and Resolution for In Vivo Neural Imaging via Self-supervised Learning

9. Jiabei Zhu (2019 – 2025)
First job: Nordson
Thesis: Advancing Intensity Diffraction Tomography with Multiple Scattering Models in Transmission and Reflection Systems
Awards:
– Best Student Paper Award, Optica Imaging Congress (2023).
Internship: Nordson

10. Jeffrey Alido (2020 – 2025)
First job: Relace.ai
Thesis: Deep Learning Approaches for Imaging Inverse Problems with Structured Noise
Awards:
– 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Internship: Google, Insitro

11. Qianwan Yang
First job: Apple
Awards:
– Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award, Optica Frontier in Optics (2022).
Internship: Apple

12. Mitchell Gilmore (2023 – 2025) 
First job: Relace.ai

 

M.S. Students 

  1. Jiaqi Zhang, 2024 –> Huawei
  2. Yicun Wu, 2024 –> PhD @ Rutgers
  3. Huaizhen Chen, 2024
  4. Ellen Burhansjah, 2024
  5. Wenyuan Cui, 2024
  6. Phuong (Jade) Tran, 2024
    * 2024 ECE MS Research Award
  7. Maxwell Malamut, 2024 –> Toyon Research Corporation
  8. John McDonough, 2024
  9. Jiayu Lu, 2024 –> PhD @ University of New Hampshire
  10. Nicholas Rabines, 2023
  11. Jiahui Zhu, 2022 –> PhD @ Washington State University
  12. Haolin Ye, 2022
  13. Weichen Jiang, 2022
  14. Hongyi Rao, 2022
  15. Kehan Guo, 2021 –> PhD @ University of Notre Dame
  16. Elise Weir, 2021
  17. Simon Gilbert, 2020 – 2021
  18. Joe Greene, 2018 – 2019 –> Tianlab PhD
    * MS thesis: Miniscope Pupil Engineering using Binary Diffractive Optics
  19. Ruilong Ling, 2016 – 2017
  20. Kasim Patel, 2016 – 2017 –> Dataiku

Undergraduate Students

  1. Kyuna Park, 5/2025 – present
  2. Ryan Rodriguez, 2/2025 – present
  3. Nguyen Nguyen, 2/2025 – present
  4. Andrew Xin, 9/2024 – present
  5. Rayan Syed, 2/2024 – present
  6. Siara Patel, 2/2024 – 08/2024
  7. Robert Bona, 2/2024 – 08/2024
  8. Nikhil Krishna, 12/2023 – 05/2024
  9. Camila Aragón, 12/2023 – 05/2024
  10. Mitchell Gilmore, 12/2022 – 06/2023 –> PhD @ Tian lab
  11. Sunni Lin, 08/2022 – 05/2024 (UROP) –> MS @ Harvard Medical School
  12. Stephen Sweet, 09/2021 – 12/2021
  13. Euijin Jung, 09/2021 – 12/2021
  14. Jin San Yoon, 09/2021 – 12/2021
  15. Antonio Alonso, 05/2021 – 12/2021
  16. Yang Yu, 05/2021 – 12/2021
  17. Grayson Wiggins, 2020 – 2021
  18. Yousuf Baker, 2020 – 2021 –> MS @ Columbia University
  19. Benjamin Wong, UROP 2018 – 2020
  20. Lin Zhang, UROP 2018 – 2020
  21. David Kirk, UROP 2016 – 2017
  22. Rahul Rajaram, UROP Spring 2018
  23. Hung-Ching Lin, UROP Fall 2017
  24. Napassorn Lerdsudwichai, UROP 2016 – 2017
  25. Yen Pham, UROP Fall 2016

Visiting Students 

  1. Allen Wu, 06/2024 – 08/2024 (University of Rochester).
  2. David Belman, NSF REU, 06/2022 – 08/2022 (Santa Monica College).
  3. Suet (Rachel) Chan, BUPC PURSUE program, 06/2021 – 08/2021 (University of Rochester) –> PhD @ Tianlab
  4. Jennifer Figueroa, NSF REU, 06/2021 – 08/2021 (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico).
  5. Benedict Diederich, 11/2018 – 04/2019 (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany).
  6. Joy Muthami, NSF REU 2017, University of Delaware
  7. Ángel David Rodríguez, 07/2016 – 12/2016  (Photonics Research Group GROC·UJI,  Universitat Jaume I, Spain).

High School Students

  1. Aleksey Valuoev, RISE intern 2024
  2. Sneha Sharma, RISE intern 2024
  3. Jamin Xie, RISE intern 2023
  4. Adelina Chau, RISE intern 2023
  5. Vivian Li, RISE intern 2022 –> Caltech
  6. Anthony Jiang, RISE intern 2019
  7. Karena Kong, RISE intern 2017
  8. Kelly Pu, Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) program intern 2017

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