Principle Investigator: Dr. Guoan Zheng (guoan.zheng@uconn.edu)
Dr. Guoan Zheng is currently the UTC Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He also serves as the Director of the UConn Center for Biomedical and Bioengineering Innovation (CBBI), where he collaborates with colleagues to drive research and development in the biomedical and bioengineering fields. His current research interests include biomedical instrumentation, computational imaging, ptychography, microscopy, endoscopy, and chip-scale imaging solutions.
Dr. Zheng received his B.S. from Zhejiang University in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2013, where he was awarded the prestigious Caltech Demetriades Thesis Prize. Dr. Zheng is recognized for his pioneering work on Fourier ptychography, which has been adopted worldwide and become a standard tool in microscopy imaging. This technique is also featured as a chapter in Joseph Goodman’s classic textbook “Introduction to Fourier Optics (4th edition)”. Dr. Zheng’s contributions have led to the publication of one book and more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, including those in top-tier journals like Nature Photonics, Nature Reviews Physics, Nature Protocols, Light: Science & Applications, and PNAS. His research has been cited over 12,000 times, with an h-index of 56 (Google Scholar profile). 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.
Dr. Zheng serves as the faculty advisor for the Optica, SPIE, and Engineering World Health UConn chapter. He also serves as the Senior / Associate Editors of PhotoniX, Biomedical Optics Express, Frontiers of Photonics, Advanced Imaging, Guest Editors 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.
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
2024 - present, Co-Director, UConn Center for Biomedical and Bioengineering Innovation, University of Connecticut.
2020 - present, UTC Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut.
2019 - 2020, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut.
2013 - 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut.
Current Lab Members
Postdoctoral Associates
- Pengming Song, Ph.D. 2023 UConn
Graduate Students
- Qianhao Zhao
- Tianbo Wang
- Ruihai Wang
Undergrad and High-school Students
- Zikun Ma, University of Connecticut, CSE
- Patrick Hu, UC Irvine
- Derek Hu, Amador Valley High School
- Kevin Sun, Andover High School
- Jiayi Liu, Farmington High School
- Diego Acker Candela, West Hartford Public School