PhD Students

Mirella Altoé, PhD (2020)
Research Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
(Thesis Title: “Diffuse optical tomography imaging of chemotherapy-induced changes in breast tissue metabolism”)

Jennifer Hoi, PhD (2018)
Senior Associate
Blue Print Research Group
(Thesis Title: “Monitoring of surgical angioplastic procedures with dynamic optical tomography”)

 

Christopher Fong, PhD (2017)
Research Scholar, The Nikolaus Schultz Lab
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
“Optical tomographic imaging of joint diseases”

 

Bradley Beattie, DEng (2017)
Assistant Attending Physicist 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
(“Fluorescence and bioluminescence imaging of cancer models in small animals”)

Jacqueline Gunther, PhD (2016)
Researcher
Biophotonics Group at Tyndall National Institute
University College Cork – National University of Ireland
(“Optical tomographic monitoring of breast cancer therapy”)

Jia Jingfei, PhD (2015)
Quantitative Researcher
Jane Street, Hong Kong SAR
(“Parallel PDE-constrained algorithm for real-time optical tomographic image reconstruction”)

Jong Hwan Lee, PhD (2014)
Senior Researcher
KAST, South Korea
(“Fluorescence tomographic small animal imaging system”)

 

Michael Khalil, PhD (2014)
Marketing Science Partner
Facebook, New York, NY
(“Vascular optical tomographic imaging of peripheral arterial disease in diabetic patients”)

Ludugier Montejo, PhD (2013)
Director, Risk Management
American Express, New York, NY
(“Transport-theory based fluorescence and bioluminescence tomography algorithms”)

Molly Flexman, PhD (2012)
Department Head
Precision Diagnosis and Image Guided Therapy
Philips – North America
(“Dynamic Optical Tomography System for Breast Imaging”)

Xuejun Gu, Ph.D. (2009)

Alexander D. Klose, PhD (2002)
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
 InVivo Analytics Inc.
(“Optical tomography with the equation of radiative transfer”)

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OTHER

(49) Malte Casper, “SCAPE imaging of fluorescence for monitoring metabolic activity,” (PI: E. Hillman, qual. February 2020, thesis defense expected in 2023)

(48) Grace Sooyeon Lee, “Mesoscale volumetric imaging of brain,” (PI: E. Hillman, qual. February 2020, thesis defense expected in 2023)

(47) Xiaoyue Judy Li, “Ultrasound harmonic motion imaging for applications in breast cancer,” (PI: E. Konofagou, qual. February 2020, thesis defense expected in 2023)

(46) Niloufar Saharkhiz, MS
Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University
“US Elastography in Breast Cancer Diagnostic,” (PI: E. Konofagou, thesis defense expected 2021)

(45) Theresa Lye, “Characterizing the human left atrium with OCT,” (PI:C. Hendon, thesis defense expected 2021)

(44) Gregory Karageorge, MS
Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University
“High Frame Rate Ultrasonography and Transient Elastography,” (PI: E. Konofagou, thesis defense expected 2021)

(43) Kelly Swanberg, “Determination of In Vivo Quantiation of Human Brain Metabolite by 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,” (PI: C. Juchem, thesis defense expected 2021)

(42) Lea Melki, PhD (2020)
Associate Research Scientist
Wan Lab, Department of Medicine – Division of Cardiology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
“Electromechanical wave imaging for the assessment of cardiovascular diseases”

(41) Vincent Sayseng, MS
Data Scientist, Game Revenant, Hoboken, NJ
Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University
“Quantitative ultrasound imaging to assess heart health” (PI: E. Konofagou, thesis defense expected 2020)

(40) Kripa B. Patel, “Fast, Volumetric Endomicroscopy for Point of Care Pathology,” (qual. February 4, 2016, thesis defense expected 2020)

(39) Jia Guo, “MRS sequences and measurements for Alzheimer’s disease,” (qual. 2016, thesis defense expected 2020)

(38) Hang Yu, “Two-photon excitation with SCAPE microscopy for the capture  of neural activities in the mouse brain,” (PI: Hillman, proposal defense Oct. 10, 2019, thesis defense expected 2020)

(37) Rajinder Patrick Singh-Moon, PhD (2019)
R&D Scientist at Modulim, Irvine, CA
” Design and development of optical reflectance spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography catheters for myocardial tissue characterization” (PI: Christine Hendon)

(36) Ching Nathan Lin, “ Fiber-optic probe and bulk-optics Spectral Domain Optical Coherence tomography systems for in vivo cochlear mechanics measurements (PIs: E.S. Olson and C.P. Hendon, April 5, 2019)

(35) Venkata Voleti, “Development of swept, confocally-aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscopy for high-speed, volumetric imaging of biological tissue,” (PI: E. Hillman, February 27, 2019)

(34) Jie Yang, “Unsupervised and Weakly-Supervised Learning of Localized Texture Patterns of Lung Diseases on Computed Tomography,” (PI: A. Laine, Dec. 17, 2018)

(33) Iason Apostolakis, “Local angle compensation method based on kinematics constraint for non-invasive vascular axial strain on human carotid arteries,” (February 3, 2018)

 (32) Yang Hang, “Development of a Harmonic Motion Imaging Guided Focused Ultrasound system for breast tumor characterization and treatment monitoring,” (December 14, 2017)

(31) Jinyu Liao, “Probing Cellular Response to Heterogeneous Rigidity at the Micro- and Nanoscale,” (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, February 24, 2017)

(30) Alexandre Costet, “Electromechanical Wave Imaging for the in vivo characterization of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias” (September 8, 2016 – Chair of Committee)

(29) Guillaume David, “Time-domain Compressive Beamforming for Medical Ultrasound Imaging” (September 1, 2016)

(28) Ronny Li, “Ultrasonic Pulse Wave Imaging for in vivo Assessment of Vascular Mechanics and Characterization of Arterial Pathologies” (October 26, 2015)

(27) Arthur Mikhno, “Non-invasive and cost-effective quantification of Positron Emission Tomography data” (October 28, 2014)

(26) Yrjö Häme, “Adaptive Quantification and Subtyping of Pulmonary Emphysema from CT Images” (September 4, 2014)

 (25) Xiaowei Zou, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications of Pseudo-Rando Amplitude Modulation” (March 2014)

(24) Cyrus Amoozegar,  “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Functional Dynamic Imaging Data” (February 2014)

(23) Jennifer Walz, PhD (2013)
Brain Research Scientist / Neuro-engineer
“Exposing Internal Attentional Brain States using Single-Trial EEG Analysis with Combined Imaging Modalities”

(22) Matthew Bouchard, “2D and 3D high-speed multispectral optical imaging systems for in-vivo biomedical research” (September 2013)

(21) Hamed Mojahed, “ Sequence Development and Expansion of Zerto J-Modulation Echo-Planar Chemical Shift Imaging in Three Dimensions” (May 2013)

(20) Ouri Cohen, “In-Vivo Three dimensional Proton Hadamard Spectroscopic Imaging in the Human Brain“ (October 2012 – committee chair)

(19) Iliyana Atanasova, “ Non-contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography for Evaluation of Peripheral Arterial Disease” (September 2012)

(18) Jean Provost, PhD (2012)
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Physics
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
“Electromechanical Wave Imaging”

(17) Owen Clark Clancey, “ Dosimetric Optimization Method for a Cyberknife Robotic Radiosurgery System Using a Memetic Algorithm” (October 2011)

(16) Mohammad Reza Taei-Tehrani, “Pseudo Random Arterial Modulation (PRAM):  A Novel ASL Approach to Measure Flow and Blood Transit Times” (September 2011)

(15) Sean A. Burgess, PhD (2011)
Director of Business Planning
Charter Communications, New York, NY
“Development and Applications of Laminar Optical Tomography for In-Vivo Imaging” 

(14) Caroline Maleke, “Harmonic motion imaging and acoustic radiation force produced by focused ultrasound” (December 2009)

(13) Yuan He, “Reconstructiong Parameters of Electrocardiology Models from Boundary Potential Measurements” (October 2009)

(12) Melvyn Ooi, PhD (2009)
MR Clinical Scientist
Philips Healthcare, Phoenix, Arizona,
“Magnetic resonance imaging of moving objects: real-time motion tracking and correction using radio-frequency coils”

(11) Christina L.V. Tosti, “Transverse relaxation parameter quantification in magnetic resonance imaging” (May 2009 – committee chair)

(10) Cheng-Yu Wie, “Automated segmentation of MRI brain images” (Dec. 2008)

(9) Ting Song, “Optimization of MR Protocols for Spatial-Temporal Analysis of 4D Dynamical Renal Images” (November 2007)

(8) Phaneendra Yalavarthy, PhD (2007)
Associate Professor
Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
“Generalized Least–Squares minimization for two and three-dimensional diffuse optical tomographic imaging of breast”, Dartmouth College, NH

(7) Mario Philiastides, PhD (2007)
Professor of Decision Neuroscience
Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology
University of Glasgow, Scotland
“Spatiotemporal Characteristics of the Neural Correlates of Perceptual Decision Making in the Human Brain”

(6) Kanmani Buddhi, “Studies on improvement of reconstruction methods in diffuse optical tomography”, Dept. of Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA (June 2006)

(5) Adam Gerson, “A System for Single-trial Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Electroence-phalogram based on Linear Discrimination” (May 2006)

(4) Xiawei Song, “Statistical Analysis and Evaluation of Near Infrared Tomographic Imaging System”, Dartmouth College, NH (2005)

(3) Yinpeng Jin, “Multi-scale processing for 3D tomographic images” (2004)

(2) Ralf Mekle, “Combined MR data acquisition of multi-contrast images using variable acquisition parameters and K-space data sharing” (2003)

(1) Elsa D. Angelini, PhD (2002)
Senior Data Scientis
Imperial College London
Faculty of Medicine
Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
“Spatio-temporal analysis of three-dimensional real-time ultrasound for quantification of ventricular function”