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Dr. Guoan Zheng is currently the UTC Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, with a joint appointment from the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Dr. Zheng’s expertise includes microscopy, ptychography, optical engineering, biophotonics, computational imaging, and lab-on-a-chip devices. His current research interests include Fourier ptychography, coded ptychography, high-throughput imaging technologies, super-resolution imaging, and the development of optofluidics and chip-scale imaging solutions.

Dr. Zheng earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2008 and 2013 respectively. He is the recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Caltech Student Prize in 2011 for developing chip-scale microscopy solutions. He was awarded the Caltech Demetriades Thesis Prize in 2013 for his development of the Fourier ptychography technology. Dr. Zheng’s research has resulted in one book and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. The Fourier ptychography technology has also become one sub-chapter in Professor Joseph W. Goodman’s classic textbook Introduction to Fourier Optics (4th edition).

Dr. Zheng serves as the faculty advisor for the Optica, SPIE, and Engineering World Health UConn chapter. He also serves as the Senior Editor of the new high-impact journal PhotoniX, Deputy Editor of Advanced Imaging, Associate Editor of Biomedical Optics Express and Frontiers of Photonics, Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, the chair of the Optics Study Group of the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee, and the co-chair of the new conference, Computational Optical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Sciences, in SPIE Photonics West. Dr. Zheng has been listed in the 2020-2023 World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University in both Single-Year and Career tracks.

Position

2020 – present, UTC Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut.

2019 – 2020, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut.

2013 – 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut.

Student Alumni

Mr. Siyuan Dong, M.S. 2014, now a Ph.D. candidate at MIT
Mr. Nabid Ahmed, B.S. 2015, now an M.D. student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Mr. Chengqian “Bruce” Che, B.S. 2015, now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
Mr. Zhe Wang, now a Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Kaikai Guo, Ph.D. 2018, now a Display Technology Architect at Apple Inc.
Ms. Yutong Jiang, M.S. 2018, now a Research Scientist at Chongqing Pharmaceutical Group
Ms. Aparna Nambiar, M.S. 2018, now a Research Associate at LifeCanvas Technologies Inc.
Dr. Jun Liao, Ph.D. 2019, now Optical Engineer at Mindray Medical International
Dr. Zichao Bian, Ph.D. 2021, now Senior Optical Engineer at Charles River Lab
Dr. Shaowei Jiang, Ph.D. 2022, now Professor at Hangzhou Dianzi University