Darren Roblyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor (shown in dual wavelength bands)
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Rice University
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering (affiliate)
Member, BU Photonics Center
Member, BU-BMC Cancer Center
Member, BU Neurophotonics Center
Member, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Program
email: roblyer(at)bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-1554
Awards and Funding: NIBIB Trailblazer, Department of Defense Era of Hope Scholar, American Cancer Society Mission Boost Awardee, American Cancer Society Research Scholar, St. Baldrick’s Research Grant Awardee, Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care Fellow, BU Office of Tech Transfer Ignition Grant Awardee, Coulter Translational Research Grant Awardee, BU-Fraunhofer Alliance Awardee, American Cancer Society Pilot Grant Awardee, National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Awardee, Department of Defense Postdoctoral Fellow, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Travel Grant, NCI T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Biology, HHMI Med into Grad Fellow.
Graduate Students:
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Carlos Gomez Ph.D. Student, BME Frequency Domain Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy for Inspiratory Muscle Monitoring; NSF GRFP Fellow |
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Ariane Garrett Ph.D. Student, BME Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy for Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring; NSF GRFP Fellow |
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Diana Suciu Ph.D. Student, BME Frequency Domain Shortwave Infrared Spectroscopy (FD-SWIRS) for Kidney Dialysis Monitoring |
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Aarohi Mehendale Ph.D. Student, BME Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI) for Scleroderma |
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Adhithi Ramasubramanian M.S. Student, BME Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI) for Scleroderma |
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Kyle Bohl M.S. Student, BME Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy for Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow during Hemodialysis |
Postdocs and Researchers:
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Kavon Karrobi – Researcher Ph.D. Boston University SFDI, Multiphoton Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging |
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Thao Pham – Postdoc Ph.D. Tufts University Real-time Frequency Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Breast Cancer Imaging |
Technical Staff:
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Lina Lin Wei B.S. Boston University Instrumentation and Electronics Development |
Lab Mascot:
| Kes DOGtoral candidate |
Lab Alumni (current position indicated):
Anahita Pilvar, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2023) Senior Scientist, Allotex, Boston, MA
Sam Spink, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2023) Internal Consultant, Ab Initio Software, Lexington, MA Thesis
Anup Tank, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2022) Data Scientist, NanoMosaic, Woburn, MA Thesis
Raeef Istfan, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2021) Imaging Engineer, Neurologica Inc., Danvers, MA Thesis
Matthew Applegate, Ph.D. (postdoc 2016-2021) Senior Data Scientist, Biofourmis, Boston, MA
Jacopo Ferruzzi, Ph.D. (postdoc 2019-2020) Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Dallas
Syeda Tabassum, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2019) Postdoc, Kainerstorfer Lab, Carnegie Mellon University Thesis
Kavon Karrobi, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2019) Instructor (BU BME) and Researcher, Roblyer Lab Thesis
Hannah Peterson, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2018) Postdoc, Weissleder Lab, Harvard Thesis
Kshama Doshi, Ph.D. (postdoc 2017-2019) Senior Scientist, Sutro Biopharma Inc., Cambridge, MA
Yanyu Zhao, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2018) Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University Thesis
Fei Teng, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2018) Senior Engineer, Harman International Thesis
Vivian Pera, Ph.D. (postdoc 2016-2018) Scientific Advisor, CranioSense, Bedford MA
Alyssa Torjesen M.S. (M.S. 2016) Research Engineer, Philips R&D, Cambridge, MA Thesis
Undergrad Researchers (current and past):
Shripreetika Guruprasad BME, ’25Evan Biller University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Physics, ’25
Vanshika Chadda BME, ’26
Noa Margolin BME, ’25
Jivesh Jain BME, ’25
Jacob Chin BME, ’25
Christopher Wu BME, ’25
Sharayu Shrinivas University of Missouri – Columbia, BME, ’24
Bernadelle Boateng BME, ’24
Xiaolei (Linda) Song BME, ’25
Saif Ragab BME, ’23
Danielle Nadira BME, ’23
Kylee Anders BME, ’22
Jodee Frias BME, ’22
Minha Lee BME, ’20
Brannon Cox BME, ’20
Fay Wang BME, ’19
Rachita Chaudhury BME, ’18
Steven LaRochelle BME, ’18
Michelle Rose BME, ’17
Shaheer Piracha BME, ’17
Sanjana Pannem BME, ’16
Jordan Sweer BME, ’16
Julia Shi BME, ’16
Phuong Diep BME, ’15
Gaby Arguelles BME, ’14
Jason Porter BME, ’14
Justin Jung Univ. of Waterloo, EE, ’14