Gregory Wirak
Gregory Wirak (Gabel lab) received his B.S. in Physiology & Neurobiology and Molecular & Cellular Biology with honors from the University of Connecticut. Following three years engaged in postgraduate research surrounding neurodegeneration at Yale University, he subsequently joined BU’s Graduate Program for Neuroscience in 2016. Employing neurophotonic techniques such as calcium imaging, optogenetics, and femtosecond laser microsurgery, his current research […]
Shutao Xu
Shutao Xu (Sander Lab) is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He became interested in neurophotonics since he joined BU and learned about his labmate’s previous work on neurostimulation. Previously, he received his B.E. in optoelectronics engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is working with Prof. Michelle Sander […]
Jiarui Yang
Jiarui Yang (Boas Lab) is a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Boston University. He received his BS in Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in June 2016. During his undergrad he worked with Dr. Chunyue Song and Dr. Quanzheng Li at Massachusetts General Hospital on evaluating the effectiveness of partial volume correction […]
Xin Ye
Xin Ye (Chen lab)
Kimberly Young
Kimberly Young (Hasselmo lab) received her BSc in physiology from McGill University. At the end of her degree and after graduation, she worked at the McGill advanced bioimaging facility and became strongly interested in microscopy tools for biologists. She continued her work at McGill at the Masters level, investigating retrograde mechanisms of synaptic strengthening using invitro […]
Dana Zemel
Dana Zemel (Han lab)
Shuqi Zheng
Shuqi Zheng (Mertz lab) is a graduate student from ECE Department. She received a BEng in Optical Engineering from Huazhong University of Sci&Tech and a MS in Optics from Imperial College London. She became involved in Neurophotonics after joining the Biomicroscopy Lab where she will be developing optical tools for bio-imaging that can better capture […]
Irene Zhou
Irene is a 3rd year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. She earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Irene is interested in neural circuitry and computational biology. She is currently working on determining the balance between excitatory and inhibitory activity in the neocortex under different states at Dr. John White’s lab.
Xuedong Zhu
Xuedong Zhu (Sander lab) received his B.Eng. in Biological Engineering with an emphasis on genetics and chemistry at Jilin University, China in 2017. His dissertation was about polymer dots synthesis and their applications in biomedical imaging. He was first introduced to neurophotonics as a first-year BME rotation student in Dr. Michelle Sander’s lab in the […]
Sharvari Zilpelwar
Sharvari Zilpelwar (Boas Lab) graduated with a BS-MS in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in 2018. After her masters’ thesis project on spatio-temporal properties of randomly scattered media, she became interested to study the properties of the brain. At Boston University, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the BOAS lab developing […]