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Postdocs<\/h4>\n

1.<\/strong> Shuying Li<\/b><\/a> (2023-2025)
\nNow<\/strong>: Assistant Professor @ Miami University<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Ruipeng Guo<\/b><\/a> (2022-2025)
\nNow:<\/strong> Postdoc @ UC Irvine<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ph.D. Students<\/h4>\n

1.<\/strong> Alex <\/span><\/strong>Matlock <\/strong>(<\/span><\/a>2016 – 2021)
\n<\/span><\/span>Now:<\/strong> Postdoc @ MIT, Peter So Group
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>Thesis: <\/strong>Model and learning-based strategies for intensity diffraction tomography
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Awards:<\/strong>
\n– 2020 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award, OSA Frontier in Optics
\n– 2019 BU ECE Travel Grant
\n– 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
\n– 2017 BU Photonics Center Student Travel Award
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Waleed Tahir<\/strong><\/a> (2016 – 2021)
\nFirst Job<\/strong>: PathAI
\nThesis<\/strong>: Deep learning for large-scale holographic 3D particle localization and two-photon angiography segmentation
\nAwards:
\n<\/strong><\/strong>– 2020 Best Summer Intern Award for Outstanding Innovation in Nokia Bell Labs Global Intern Program
\n– 2017 BU Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award
\n– 2017 BU Photonics Center Student Travel Award
\nInternship: <\/strong>PathAI, Nokia Bell Labs<\/p>\n

3<\/strong>. <\/strong>Yujia Xue <\/strong><\/a>(2017 – 2022)
<\/span><\/span>First job:\u00a0 <\/strong>Apple
\n<\/span>Thesis<\/strong>: Computational\u00a0miniature mesoscope for large-scale 3D fluorescence imaging
Awards:<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n– 2020 IEEE Photonics Conference Best Student Paper Finalists<\/a>
\n– 2020 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award<\/a>
\n– 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship<\/a>
\n– 2021 Best Summer Intern Award, Nokia Bell Labs
\n<\/span><\/span>Internship: <\/strong>Nokia Bell Labs<\/p>\n

4. Yunzhe Li<\/a><\/strong> (2017 – 2022)
<\/span><\/span>Now:<\/strong> Postdoc @ UC Berkeley, Laura Waller Group
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Thesis:<\/strong>Robust Deep Learning for Computational Imaging through Random Optics
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Awards:\u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>– Hariri Graduate Student Fellow<\/a> (2020)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5. Shiyi Cheng<\/a><\/strong> (2018 – 2023)
\nFirst job:<\/strong> Apple
\nThesis: <\/strong>Augmenting Label-free Imaging Modalities with Deep Learning based Digital Staining
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Awards:
\n<\/strong>– nac <\/span>Image Technology Best Presentation Award at SPIE Photonics West BIOS (2021)
\nInternship: <\/strong>Philips
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> Joseph Greene <\/b><\/a>(2018 – 2024)
\nFirst job: <\/strong><\/span><\/b>Georgia Tech Research Institute<\/span>
\nThesis: <\/span><\/b>Computational Extended Depth of Field Fluorescence Microscopy in Miniaturized and Tabletop Platforms<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/b>Awards:
\n<\/strong>– BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship<\/a> (2020)
\n<\/span>– NSF NRT fellowship in NSF NRT UtB: Neurophotonics National Research Traineeship Program<\/a> (2020)
\nInternship: <\/strong>MIT Lincoln Labs, Georgia Tech Research Institute
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7. Hao Wang <\/strong>(2019 – 2024)
\nFirst job: <\/strong>Huawei
\nThesis: <\/strong>Advancing Optical Metrology Through Computational Imaging Techniques
\n<\/strong>Awards:
\n<\/strong>– Hariri Graduate Student Fellow<\/a> (2021)
\n– Best Student Paper Award, Optica Imaging Congress (2023).
\n<\/span><\/span>Internship: <\/strong>Meta<\/p>\n

8. Chang Liu <\/a><\/strong>(2020-2025)
\nFirst job: <\/strong>Apple
\nThesis: <\/strong>Pushing the Limits of SNR and Resolution for In Vivo Neural Imaging via Self-supervised Learning<\/p>\n

9. Jiabei Zhu <\/a><\/strong>(2019 – 2025)
\nFirst job: <\/strong>Nordson
\nThesis: <\/strong>Advancing Intensity Diffraction Tomography with Multiple Scattering Models in Transmission and Reflection Systems
\n<\/strong>Awards:
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong>– Best Student Paper Award, Optica Imaging Congress (2023).
\n<\/span><\/span>Internship: <\/strong>Nordson<\/p>\n

10. Jeffrey Alido <\/a><\/strong>(2020 – 2025)
\nFirst job: <\/strong>Relace.ai
\nThesis: <\/strong>Deep Learning Approaches for Imaging Inverse Problems with Structured Noise
\nAwards:<\/strong>
\n– 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship<\/span><\/span>
\nInternship: <\/strong>Google, Insitro<\/p>\n

11. Qianwan Yang<\/a><\/strong> (2020 – 2025)
\nFirst job: <\/strong>Apple
\nThesis: <\/strong>Advancing Computational Multi-Aperture Fluorescence Microscopy via Model- and Learning-Based Techniques
\n<\/strong>Awards:<\/strong>
\n<\/span>– Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award, Optica Frontier in Optics (2022).
\nInternship: <\/strong>Apple<\/p>\n

12. Mitchell Gilmore<\/strong> (2023 – 2025)\u00a0
\nFirst job: <\/strong>Relace.ai
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

M.S. Students\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. Sreeganesh Valathara Rajendran<\/a> –> KLA<\/li>\n
  2. Jiaqi Zhang, 2024 –> Huawei<\/li>\n
  3. Yicun Wu, 2024 –> PhD @ Rutgers<\/li>\n
  4. Huaizhen Chen, 2024<\/li>\n
  5. Ellen Burhansjah, 2024<\/li>\n
  6. Wenyuan Cui, 2024<\/li>\n
  7. Phuong (Jade) Tran<\/a>, 2024
    \n* 2024 ECE MS Research Award<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Maxwell Malamut<\/a>, 2024 –> Toyon Research Corporation<\/li>\n
  9. John McDonough, 2024<\/li>\n
  10. Jiayu Lu, 2024 –> PhD @ University of New Hampshire<\/li>\n
  11. Nicholas Rabines, 2023<\/li>\n
  12. Jiahui Zhu, 2022 –> PhD @ Washington State University<\/li>\n
  13. Haolin Ye, 2022<\/li>\n
  14. Weichen Jiang, 2022<\/li>\n
  15. Hongyi Rao, 2022<\/li>\n
  16. Kehan Guo, 2021 –> PhD @ University of Notre Dame<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Elise Weir, 2021<\/li>\n
  18. Simon Gilbert, 2020 – 2021<\/li>\n
  19. Joe Greene<\/strong><\/span>, 2018 – 2019 –> Tianlab PhD
    \n* MS thesis: Miniscope Pupil Engineering using Binary Diffractive Optics<\/li>\n
  20. Ruilong Ling, 2016 – 2017<\/li>\n
  21. Kasim Patel<\/a>, 2016 – 2017 –> Dataiku<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Undergraduate Students<\/strong><\/h4>\n
      \n
    1. Kyuna Park, 5\/2025 \u2013 8\/2025<\/li>\n
    2. Ryan Rodriguez, 2\/2025 \u2013 6\/2025<\/li>\n
    3. Nguyen Nguyen, 2\/2025 \u2013 5\/2025<\/li>\n
    4. Andrew Xin, 9\/2024 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
    5. Rayan Syed, 2\/2024 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
    6. Siara Patel, 2\/2024 \u2013 08\/2024<\/li>\n
    7. Robert Bona, 2\/2024 \u2013 08\/2024<\/li>\n
    8. Nikhil Krishna, 12\/2023 \u2013 05\/2024<\/li>\n
    9. Camila Arag\u00f3n, 12\/2023 \u2013 05\/2024<\/li>\n
    10. Mitchell Gilmore<\/strong><\/span>, 12\/2022 \u2013 06\/2023 –> PhD @ Tian lab<\/li>\n
    11. Sunni Lin<\/a>, 08\/2022 \u2013 05\/2024 (UROP) –> MS @ Harvard Medical School<\/li>\n
    12. Stephen Sweet, 09\/2021 \u2013 12\/2021<\/li>\n
    13. Euijin Jung, 09\/2021 \u2013 12\/2021<\/li>\n
    14. Jin San Yoon, 09\/2021 \u2013 12\/2021<\/li>\n
    15. Antonio Alonso, 05\/2021 \u2013 12\/2021<\/li>\n
    16. Yang Yu, 05\/2021 \u2013 12\/2021<\/li>\n
    17. Grayson Wiggins, 2020 – 2021<\/li>\n
    18. Yousuf Baker, 2020 – 2021 –> MS @ Columbia University<\/li>\n
    19. Benjamin Wong, UROP 2018 – 2020<\/li>\n
    20. Lin Zhang, UROP 2018 – 2020<\/li>\n
    21. David Kirk, UROP 2016 – 2017<\/li>\n
    22. Rahul Rajaram, UROP Spring 2018<\/li>\n
    23. Hung-Ching Lin, UROP Fall 2017<\/li>\n
    24. Napassorn Lerdsudwichai<\/a>, UROP 2016 – 2017<\/li>\n
    25. Yen Pham, UROP Fall 2016<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Visiting Students\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
        \n
      1. Allen Wu, 06\/2024 – 08\/2024 (University of Rochester).<\/li>\n
      2. David Belman, NSF REU, 06\/2022 – 08\/2022 (Santa Monica College).<\/li>\n
      3. Suet (Rachel) Chan<\/strong><\/span>, BUPC PURSUE program<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>06\/2021 – 08\/2021 (University of Rochester) –> PhD @ Tianlab<\/li>\n
      4. Jennifer Figueroa, NSF REU<\/a>, <\/span>06\/2021 – 08\/2021 (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico).<\/li>\n
      5. Benedict\u00a0Diederich<\/a>, 11\/2018 – 04\/2019 (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany).<\/li>\n
      6. Joy Muthami,\u00a0NSF REU<\/a> 2017,\u00a0University of Delaware<\/span><\/li>\n
      7. \u00c1ngel David Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, 07\/2016 – 12\/2016 \u00a0(Photonics Research Group GROC\u00b7UJI,\u00a0 Universitat Jaume I, Spain).
        \n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        High School Students<\/strong><\/h4>\n
          \n
        1. Aleksey Valuoev, RISE intern 2024<\/li>\n
        2. Sneha Sharma, RISE intern 2024<\/li>\n
        3. Jamin Xie, RISE intern 2023<\/li>\n
        4. Adelina Chau, RISE intern 2023<\/li>\n
        5. Vivian Li, RISE intern 2022 –> Caltech<\/li>\n
        6. Anthony Jiang, RISE intern 2019<\/li>\n
        7. Karena Kong, RISE intern 2017<\/li>\n
        8. Kelly Pu,\u00a0Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) program<\/a>\u00a0intern 2017<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Postdocs 1. Shuying Li (2023-2025) Now: Assistant Professor @ Miami University 2. Ruipeng Guo (2022-2025) Now: Postdoc @ UC Irvine   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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12228,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1772\/revisions\/2525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tianlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}