Past Members
Group Alumni
Sixian You, Ph.D.
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Bioengineering
Ronit Barkalifa, Ph.D.
Study ManagerBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Madison Wilson
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yuan-Zhi Liu, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Alyssa Licudine
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Roshan Dsouza, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Andrew Bower, Ph.D.
Graduate Research FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
JangHyuk Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Chi (Jesse) Zhang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Fatima A. Clouser
M. Eng. Bioinstrumentation
Tabea Kohlfarber, M.S.
Visiting scholarBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Jose Rico-Jimenez, Ph.D.
Post doctoral research associateBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Ronald Hsiao
Undergraduate student, Engineering Physics, 2010
John Fahrner
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005Title: Evaluation of Engineered Cornea with an Integrated Optical Coherence and Multiphoton Microscope
Achal Modi
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Bioengineering, 2002
Javier I. Suárez
Graduate Research FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Paras Baxi
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. Undergraduate Thesis: Darkbox Fluorescence Imaging.
Adeel Ahmad
Graduate FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ben Graf, Ph.D.
Graduate FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Julie ten Have
Office Administrator at Materials Research LaboratoryUniveristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jay Pasquesi
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005Title: Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography: Design, Development, and Implementation
Mariya Lazebnik
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. Undergraduate Thesis: Functional Optical Coherence Tomography for Neural Imaging.
Kelly J Mesa-Donado, M.S.
Graduate Research FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yuting Wu
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007
Nathan Shemonski, M.S.
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cac Nguyen, Ph.D.
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dan Marks, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-200
Jose Mayen
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004Title: Radial and Helical Scanning Algorithms for Optical Coherence Tomography
Deepti Narla
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. Undergraduate Thesis: Design of a Hand-Held Probe for Use in an Optical Coherence Tomography System.
Veronika Sowers
Department of Bioengineering
Rahil Jogani
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. Undergraduate Thesis: Instrumentation for an OCT Microscope.
Mohammad Jaber
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Woonggyu Jung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowBeckman Institute
Amy Oldenburg, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2008
Tinman Lee
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002Title: Optical Coherence Tomography Image Enhancement using Contrast Agents and Wavelet Denoising
Girish Muyle
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003
Eugene Ark
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Medical Scholars Program
Yee Lin Koh
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007
Haichuan (Charlie) Yu
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Budiman Dabarsyah, Ph.D.
Graduate FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adam Zysk
Graduate student, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007Title: Surgical Breast Cancer Localization via Coherent Measurement of Endogenous Optical Properties.
Jeremy Bredfeldt
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004Title: Nonlinear Interferometric Vibrational Imaging
Jacquelyn Martin
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. Undergraduate Thesis: Optical Coherence Tomography in Developing Biology Studies.
Zhida Xu, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Je Lin Chin
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. Undergraduate Thesis: Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging for Cell Differentiation.
Anthony Shvets
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wladimir Benalcazar, M.S.
Graduate FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wladimir Benalcazar, M.S.
Graduate FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robin Chelliyil
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007Title: Processing Architecture and Hardware Modifications for a Real-Time Integrated Optical Coherence and Multiphoton Microscope.
Josh Reynolds
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002Title: High-Speed, Broad-Bandwidth Delay Line Implementation for Optical Coherence Tomography
Jillian Gunther
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Bioengineering, 2004Undergraduate Thesis: Cell Labeling and Viability Following Administration of Contrast Agents for Optical Coherence Tomography.
Casey Troccoli
Discoveries in Bioimaging Summer REU studentRose-Hullman Institute of Technology
David Tabriz
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007
Zita Hubler
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Bioengineering
Freddy Nguyen
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Chemistry,, MD/PHD medical scholars program
Gareth Jones
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007Title: High Spectral Resolution Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy through Spectral Deconvolution of Interfermetrically-Detected Broadband Chirped Pulses.
Shoeb Sitafalwalla
Undergraduate StudentConducted research in optical contrast agents.
Devang Parikh
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004
Devin Bryant
Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringKathleen Reilly
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007
Jong Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowBeckman Institute
Jonathan Sun
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Bioengineering,, MD/PHD medical scholars program
Tyler Ralston
Graduate student, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006Title: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy.
Alex Schaefer
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002Title: Real-Time, Digital Signal Processing-Based Optical Coherence Tomography and Optical Doppler Tomography
Anupama Bowonder
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004. Undergraduate Thesis: Optical Coherence Tomography of Neural Activity.
Kush Paul, Ph.D.
Research ScientistBeckman Institute
Wendy Siman
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Physics, 2007
Vasi Crecea, Ph.D.
Graduate FellowDepartment of Physics
SungHwan Shin
Graduate FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Simon Schlachter
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006Title: Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography: Characterization, Integration, and Application.
Wayne Tang
Undergraduate StudentConducted research in three-dimensional optical coherence tomography.
Nayoung Lee
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004
Ryan Shelton, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Morgan Wang
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009
Michelle Wiryadi
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shawn M. Sternisha, M.S.
Visiting ScholarFlorida State University, GlaxoSmithKline, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Di Li
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Annie Ko
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006Title: Imaging and Characterization of Optical Scattering Changes in Single Neurons using Optical Coherence Tomography.
Jian Ye
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003Title: Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography of Near-Infrared Dyes as Contrast Agents.
Wes McClain
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005
Youbo Zhao, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Yang Pu, Ph.D.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, GSK Center for O.M.I.
Sangmok (James) Yun
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Renu John, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowBeckman Institute
Dianna Liu
Graduate student, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006Conducted research on OCT needle-based beam-delivery systems.
Zhi Jiang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009Adrien Muller
Exchange student from ENST (National School for Telecommunications), France. Diplome d'Ingenieur, 2005.
Ryan Nolan, M.S.
Imaging Research SpecialistBeckman Institute
Jonathan Rasio
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Xing Liang
Graduate Research AssistantElectrical and Computer Engineering
Chenyang Xu
Graduate student, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005Title: Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography: Mechanisms, Methodology, and Applications.
Robabeh Rezaeipoor, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Scientist, 2006-2009
Parijat Sengupta, Ph.D.
Research Assistant ProfessorBeckman Institute, Bioengineering
Stephen Kim
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
Sarah J. Erickson-Bhatt, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Steven Adie, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowBeckman Institute
Utkarsh Sharma, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010
Chuanwu Xi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2005Selezion Hambir, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-2003
Fredrick A. South, M.S.
Graduate Research FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Roger Hsiao
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
Matt Flavin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ibrahim Khan
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shannon Powers
Undergraduate student, 2009School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Claudio Vinegoni, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2005Amy Wiedemann, D.V.M.
Postdoctoral fellow, 2002-2003Kahla Dean
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
Basanta Bhaduri, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Matthew King, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Joe Geddes, Ph.D.
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2009
Wei Tan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2005Zhu Boru, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002Evan Rosenfeld
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
Yuan Liu, M.S.
Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Bioengineering
Zane Arp, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Biomedical Physics; FDA. Formerly: GSK
Chao Wang, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research AssociateBeckman Institute
Stephanie A. Rinne, Ph.D.
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008
Wei Luo
Research Specialist, 2002-2005Sujatha Krishnan, M.D.
Internal Medicine Chief Resident, 2006-2007Evan Rosenfeld
Undergraduate student, B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
Lucas Hendren
Undergraduate Research AssistantDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wolfgang Rubrecht
Undergraduate Research AssistantDept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering