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 Photoplethysmography and Laser Speckle Imaging; 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 |
Postdocs:
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Anahita Pilvar Ph.D. Student, ECE Shortwave Infrared Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SWIR-SFDI) for Non-invasive Blood Lipid Monitoring |
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Kavon Karrobi Ph.D. Boston University SFDI, Multiphoton Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging |
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Thao Pham Ph.D. Tufts University Real-time Frequency Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Breast Cancer Imaging |
Technical Staff:
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Lina Lin B.S. Boston University Instrumentation and Electronics Development |
Lab Mascot:
| Kes DOGtoral candidate |
Lab Alumni (current position indicated):
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) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
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 Postdoc, Roblyer Lab Thesis
Hannah Peterson, Ph.D. (Ph.D. 2018) Postdoc, Weissleder Lab, Harvard Thesis
Kshama Doshi, Ph.D. (postdoc 2017-2019) 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) Algorithm Engineer, Masimo Inc., Irvine, CA Thesis
Vivian Pera, Ph.D. (postdoc 2016-2018) Staff Signal Processing Engineer at WHOOP, Boston, MA
Alyssa Torjesen M.S. (M.S. 2016) Research Engineer, Philips R&D, Cambridge, MA Thesis
Undergrad Researchers (current and past):
| Noa Margolin BME |
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| Jivesh Jain BME |
Jacob Chin BME, ’25 |
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 |
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