Principle Investigator: Dr. Guoan Zheng (guoan.zheng@uconn.edu)
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.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, May 2013
M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, May 2008
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, June 2007.
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.
Current Lab Members
Post-Doc Researcher
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Dr. Pengming Song, Ph.D. 2023 UConn
Graduate Students
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Mr. Qianhao Zhao, Ph.D. Student, M.S. 2023 Tsinghua University
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Mr. Tianbo Wang, Ph. D. Student, B.S. 2020 UConn
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Mr. Ruihai Wang, Ph.D. Student, M.S. 2021 Hangzhou Dianzi University
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Mr. Pouria Hoveida, Ph.D. Student
Undergrad and High-school Students
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Mr. Patrick Hu, UC Irvine
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Mr. Derek Hu, Amador Valley High School
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Mr. Terrance Zhang, UConn
Lab Alumni
Student Alumni
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Mr. Siyuan Dong, M.S. 2014, now a Ph.D. candidate at MIT
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Mr. Nabid Ahmed, B.S. 2015, now an M.D. student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Mr. Chengqian “Bruce” Che, B.S. 2015, now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
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Mr. Zhe Wang, now a Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital
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Dr. Kaikai Guo, Ph.D. 2018, now a Display Technology Architect at Apple Inc.
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Ms. Yutong Jiang, M.S. 2018, now a Research Scientist at Chongqing Pharmaceutical Group
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Ms. Aparna Nambiar, M.S. 2018, now a Research Associate at LifeCanvas Technologies Inc.
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Dr. Jun Liao, Ph.D. 2019, now Optical Engineer at Mindray Medical International
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Dr. Zichao Bian, Ph.D. 2021, now Senior Optical Engineer at Charles River Lab
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Dr. Shaowei Jiang, Ph.D. 2022, now Professor at Hangzhou Dianzi University
Visiting Student Alumni
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Dr. Zibang Zhang, now an Associate Professor at Jinan University (2016)
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Dr. You Zhou, now an Associate Professor at Nanjing University (2017)
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Mr. Teng Zhang, now a graduate student, Hangzhou Dianzi University (2018)
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Mr. Jiakai Zhu, now a graduate student, Hangzhou Dianzi University (2019)
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Dr. Chengfei Guo, now Associate Professor at Xidian University (2022)
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Mr. Liming Yang, now a graduate student, Xidian University (2023)