Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center

Lab Members

Lab

Graduate Students

	Name and Publications	Email	Research
	Joseph Afreh	Email	Exploring rapid and efficient diagnostics methods for mycobacterium tuberculosis infections
	Camella Carlson	Email	OCT cystoscopy system for bladder cancer detection D igital staining of cystoscopy videos for bladder cancer detection
	Seth Crawford	Email	Mechanical and hardware design of portable fNIRS headband for the study of neurological disorders
	Han Dong	Email	Intraoperative assessment of parathyroid viability using handheld laser speckle contrast imaging In vivo assessment of hydration status with a wearable Raman device
	Rachel Eimen	Email	Producing virtual 3D reconstructions of hollow organs from endoscopy videos Developing software to improve the quality of 3D reconstructions and implementing them in a clinical setting with the goal of improving patient records and treatment
	Sean Fitzgerald	Email	Development of scanned oblique plane illumination (SOPi) microscope
	George Grow	Email	computational modeling of neurons during infrared neural stimulation
	Jacob Hardenburger	Email	Effects of directed energies on neural tissue Advanced microscopy techniques for biomedical research
	Ezekiel Haugen	Email	Clinical translation of Raman spectroscopy for point-of-care assessment of eosinophilic esophagitis Nonlinear optical imaging for identification of unlabeled biomarkers associated with eosinophilic esophagitis
	Rachel Hecht	Email	Optical hardware design and translation for image-guided ophthalmic surgery
	Anupam Kumar	Email	Functional, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Neuromonitoring
	Richard Liao	Email	Prototyping of a wearable Raman detector for hydration quantification
	Anna Rourke-Funderburg	Email	Development of culture free platform for bacteria detection using surface enhanced raman spectroscopy Clinical translation of Raman spectroscopy
	Xiao Tang	Email	Development of a low-cost and low-resource OCT system
	Trevor Voss	Email	Raman spectroscopy Quantum mechanical molecular modeling Understanding systemic physiological hydration at the molecular level Higher-order light-matter interactions with complex chiral bio-molecules Quantum biology
	Jake Watson	Email	Multimodal Optical Imaging Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Diagnostic Imaging
	Parker Willmon	Email	Fluorescence guided endocrine surgery Mathematical modeling
	Yunqin Zhao	Email	Optical Coherence Tomography In Vitro Fertilization

Undergraduate Students

	Name	Email	Research
	Zaiyang (Aaron) Guo	Email	Development of a machine learning-based image segmentation algorithm for a thermal imaging low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS) monitoring system
	Tiffany-Cahu Le	Email	Low-cost fNIRS enclosure development for naturalistic conditions
	Mayaank Pillai	Email	Automated virtual 3D bladder reconstruction for post-cystoscopy analysis
	Haoli Yin	Email	Developing an automated specular reflection restoration technique to improve virtual 3D models created from endoscopy videos
	Phillip Yoon	Email	Well-of-the-well design for embryo culture for in vitro fertilization (IVF)