Jerome Mertz
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Dr. Mertz and team work on the development of new microscopy techniques for biomedical imaging in their lab. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Imaging Cardiac Organoids with Laser Speckle (REU, 2024) Imaging Gas Vesicle Dynamics (REU, 2023) Imaging Neuromelanin With Darkfield Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy (REU, 2021)
Siddharth Ramachandran
Professor Ramachandran and team focus their research around nonlinear, ultrafast and quantum photonics,, fundamentals of light-matter interactions, fibers and guided-wave devices, super-resolution & brain imaging, classical & quantum networks. Previous REU/RET Projects: Generation, Transmission and Manipulation of Optical Skyrmions (2025, REU) Machine Learning Optimization of OAM-mediated Nonlinear Fiber Optics (2024, REU) Sculpting Light in Space […]
Tommaso Ranzani
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Professor Tommaso Ranzani leads the Morphable Biorobotics Lab whose focus is robotic technologies for medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, and exploration. Dr. Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture […]
Darren Roblyer
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Dr. Roblyer’s research group develops new label free imaging modalities to diagnose disease and monitor therapies. A main thrust of the lab is development of new wearable and handheld technologies that can provide earlier assessments of therapy effectiveness for cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney disease, and others. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: […]
Jacob Rogatinsky
Jacob Rogatinsky is graduate student in the Morphable Biorobotics Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Robotic Stabilization for Beating Heart Procedures (2023) Design of a Soft Manipulator for Beating Heart Procedures (2023)
Sheila Russo
2026 REU Project: Pneumatically Tunable Soft Optical 3DOF Contact Sensor for Force and Touch Detection Professor Sheila Russo’s Material Robotics Lab focuses on the design, mechanics, and manufacturing of novel multi-scale and multi-material biomedical robotic systems.background is at the intersection of biomedical robotics, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials technologies. Her research focuses on […]
Francisco Sanchez
Francisco Sanchez is a graduate student in the Bifano Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Blinking Heart Lights (2024) Imaging Gas Vesicle Dynamics (2023) High Throughput Screening of Cardiomyopathy in 3D Engineering Tissues (2023) Measuring Dynamic Stiffness of Engineered Cardiac Tissue (2022)
Will Sprecher
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: PointCheck Case Design (2023)
Zifan Wang
Zifan Wang is a graduate student in the Ling Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: 2D Heterostructures via Selective-area Atomic Substitution (2023)
Alice White
With over 125 publications and 7 patents issued/pending, Alice White is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE Photonics Society, and the Optical Society of America. She is also conducting research as part of CELL-MET, a multi-institutional National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials (EEC-1647837). CELL-MET aims to grow functional and […]