{"id":15162,"date":"2026-05-06T17:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/?page_id=15162"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:39:59","slug":"research-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/research-on-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 25th 2026, the Photonics Student Society at Boston University Photonics Center 906 hosted a student-led Research On Tap event, with 11 student presentations and four prize winners!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 1st Place: Daria Bogatova | PI: Anna Devor<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620802002-424x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620802002-424x636.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620802002-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620802002-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620802002.jpeg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211; 2nd Place: Vaibhav Choudhary | PI: Vivek Goyal<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891-1000x1334.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620803891.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211; 3rd Place: Mingsheng Li | PI: Ji-Xin Cheng<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963-1000x1334.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620804963.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211; Fan-Favorite Award: Lanxin Xu | PI: Chen Yang<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921-1000x1334.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807921.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Many thanks to everyone who stopped by! You can catch the Photonics Student Society again soon!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906-1000x1334.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/files\/2026\/07\/1774620807906.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 25th 2026, the Photonics Student Society at Boston University Photonics Center 906 hosted a student-led Research On Tap event, with 11 student presentations and four prize winners! &#8211; 1st Place: Daria Bogatova | PI: Anna Devor &#8211; 2nd Place: Vaibhav Choudhary | PI: Vivek Goyal &#8211; 3rd Place: Mingsheng Li | PI: Ji-Xin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25908,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15162\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}