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Researchus Emeritus
This list of former group members is not complete.
S Stephanie A. Rinne
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Ronald Hsiao
Undergraduate, Engineering Physics
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Julie ten Have
Office Administrator at Materials Research Laboratory, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Marks, Ph.D.
Amy Oldenburg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adam Zysk, Ph.D.
Illinois Institute of Technology.
Awarded Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Dissertation:"Surgical Breast Cancer Localization via Coherent Measurement of Endogenous Optical Properties".
Robin Chelliyil, M.S.
Awarded M.S. Electrical and computer engineering, August 2007.
Thesis: "Processing Architecture and Hardware Modifications for a Real-Time Integrated Optical Coherence and Multiphoton Microscope".
Tyler Ralston, Ph.D.
Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Awarded Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Dissertation: "Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy".
Simon Schlachter, M.S.
Ph.D. program, University of Cambridge.
Awarded M.S., Electrical and computer Engineering, October 2006.
Thesis: "Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography: Characterization, Integration, and Application".
Annie Ko, M.S.
Medical school, Northwestern University.
Awarded M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2006.
Thesis: "Imaging and Characterization of Optical Scattering Changes in Single Neurons using Optical Coherence Tomography".
Dianna Liu M.S.
Awarded M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2006.
Conducted research on OCT needle-based beam-delivery systems.
Gareth Jones M.S.
Awarded M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Thesis: "High Spectral Resolution Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy through Spectral Deconvolution of Interfermetrically-Detected Broadband Chirped Pulses".
Chenyang Xu, Ph.D.
Researcher at LightLabs Inc.
Awarded Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, October 2005.
Dissertation: "Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography: Mechanisms, Methodology, and Applications".
Chuanwu Xi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
Claudio Vinegoni, Ph.D.
Post doc at Harvard University.
Wei Tan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Bolder.
Wei Luo
Research Specialist at the University of Michigan.
John Fahrner
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in June, 2005.
Jay Pasquesi
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in June, 2005.
Jose Mayen
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December, 2004.
Tinman Lee
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in June, 2002.
Jeremy Bredfeldt
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December, 2004.
Josh Reynolds
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in June, 2002. Thesis title:"High-Speed, Broad-Bandwidth Delay Line Implementation for OCT"
Shoeb Sitafalwalla
Undergraduate Student.
Conducted research in optical contrast agents.
Alex Schaefer
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in January, 2002. Thesis title:"Real-Time, Digital Signal Processing-Based Optical Coherence Tomography and Optical Doppler Tomography"
Wayne Tang
Undergraduate Student.
Conducted research in three-dimensional optical coherence tomography.
Jian Ye
Awarded M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in September, 2003. Thesis title:"Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography of Near-Infrared Dyes as Contrast Agents".
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Zhi Jiang, Ph.D.,
Conducted research on ultrafast pulse shaping for applications in medicine and biology.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Beckman Institute
March 2007 to June 2009
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Robabeh Rezaeipoor, Ph.D.,
Conducted research on contrast agent targeting and immunomodulatory therapeutic agents.
Visiting Research Scientist, Beckman Institute
January 2006 to March 2009
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  Selezion Hambir, Ph.D.,
Conducted research in nonlinear optical imaging systems.
Department of Chemistry, UIUC
January 2002 to July 2003
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Amy Wiedemann, D.V.M.,
Conducted research in cancer processes.
Veterinary Oncology, UIUC
January 2002 to July 2003
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Zhu Boru, Ph.D.,
Conducted research in cell-cell interactions and cell-matrix adhesions.
Department of Chemical Engineering, UIUC
July 2002 to October 2002
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Sujatha Krishnan, M.D.,
Internal Medicine Chief Resident conducting research on optical imaging of lung tumors for image-guided biopsy procedures.
July 2006 to July 2007
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Achal Modi
Awarded B.S. in Bioengineering, May 2002.
Conducted research in multi-modality optical imaging.

 

Mariya Lazebnik
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2003.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Functional Optical Coherence Tomography for Neural Imaging".
Recipient of NSF Graduate Fellowship, Colgate Research Fellowship.

 

Deepti Narla
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2003.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Design of a Hand-Held Probe for Use in an Optical Coherence Tomography System".

 

Girish Muyle
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2003.
Conducted research on a fiber-optic optical imaging needle.

 

Jacquelyn Martin
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2003.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Optical Coherence Tomography in Developing Biology Studies".

 

Jillian Gunther
Awarded B.S. Bioengineering, May 2004.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Cell Labeling and Viability Following Administration of Contrast Agents for Optical Coherence Tomography".

 

Devang Parikh
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2004.
Conducted research in novel microfluidic device designs.

 

Anupama Bowonder
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2004.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Optical Coherence Tomography of Neural Activity".

 

Nayoung Lee
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2004.
Conducted undergraduate research on 3-D scanning for OCT.

 

Wes McClain
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2005.
Conducted undergraduate thesis research on supercontinuum generation for OCT.

 

Adrien Muller
Exchange student from ENST (National School for Telecommunications), France.
Diplome d'Ingenieur, July 2005.
Conducted undergraduate research on ultra-broadband titanium:sapphire lasers.

 

Elaine Wah
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2006.
Conducted undergraduate research in targeted contrast agents for OCT.

 

Stephen Kim
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2006.
Conducted undergraduate thesis research on an optical micropipette.

 

Roger Hsiao
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2006.
Conducted undergraduate research in Doppler OCT.

 

Kahla Dean
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2006.
Conducted undergraduate research on polarization changes in healthy and infarcted cardiac muscle.

 

Evan Rosenfeld
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2006.
Conducted undergraduate research in swept-source lasers.

 

Paras Baxi
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2006.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Darkbox Fluorescence Imaging".

 

Yuting Wu
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Conducting undergraduate thesis research in audio optical coherence tomography.

 

Rahil Jogani
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Instrumentation for an OCT Microscope".

 

Yee Lin Koh
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Conducting undergraduate thesis research on methods to reduce optical fiber damage during high-power laser pumping.

 

Je Lin Chin
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Undergraduate Thesis: "Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging for Cell Differentiation".

 

David Tabriz
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Conducted undergraduate thesis research on optical blood viscosity measurements.

 

Kathleen Reilly
Awarded B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2007.
Conducted undergraduate thesis research on low-coherence interferometry system.

 

Wendy Siman
Awarded B.S. Physics, May 2007.
Conducted undergraduate research on correlating OCT images of micrometastases in lymph nodes with corresponding histological findings.

 

Morgan Wang
Conducted undergraduate research on audio representation of image data.

 


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