Neurophotonics Center’s 7th Annual Symposium on Machine Learning and Photonics in Neuroscience
Yesterday, the Neurophotonics Center’s 7th annual symposium took place on the Center for Computing and Data Sciences’ 17th floor, organized by faculty members Mike Economo and Brian DePasquale. With hundreds of attendees and 11 presenters, the topics were broken down into four sessions under the umbrella of “Machine Learning and Photonics in Neuroscience.”
Ji-Xin Cheng Wins SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been awarded the 2024 SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award. Cheng is the Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics and is a world-renowned pioneer in bond-selective spectroscopic imaging.
New Article from David Boas
Professors Boas and Cheng were recently published in the Optica Publishing Group’s “Biomedical Optics Express” for their team’s research on “Dynamic light scattering and laser speckle contrast imaging of the brain: theory of the spatial and temporal statistics of speckle pattern evolution”
Computational Chemical Imaging Reveals Dazzling Molecular Details of Living Cells and Organisms
Computing and machine learning are enabling imaging capabilities once considered “impossible” By Kat J. McAlpine

Dynamic light scattering and laser speckle contrast imaging of the brain: theory of the spatial and temporal statistics of speckle pattern evolution
Faculty: David Boas | Outlet: Optica
Zhang to Join European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Distinguished Professor of Engineering Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) has been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), a learned society of 2,000 members, including more than 30 Nobel Prize Laureates. Members are elected for outstanding achievements in science, arts and governance, and their exceptional standing in society as a result of their scientific […]

Stimulated Raman photothermal microscopy toward ultrasensitive chemical imaging
Faculty: Ji-Xin Cheng | Outlet: Science Advances

Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Photothermal Microscopy for Imaging Water-Embedded Axon BundlesArticle link copied!
Faculty: Michelle Sander | Outlet: ACS

Multiscale label-free imaging of myelin in human brain tissue with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and birefringence microscopy
Faculty: Irving Bigio, David Boas | Outlet: Optica

Single virus fingerprinting by widefield interferometric defocus-enhanced mid-infrared photothermal microscopy
Faculty: Ji-Xin Cheng, John Connor, Selim Ünlü | Outlet: Nature