People
Sixian You
Ph.D., UIUC, 2019
Sixian You is the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT EECS department, and a Principal Investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Sixian did her Ph.D. at UIUC (2019), obtained B.S. from HUST (2013), and completed her postdoc at UC Berkeley (2021). Her research interests are in biophotonics and microscopy, with an emphasis on developing hardware and algorithms to overcome longstanding imaging limitations for biomedical translation. She has been the recipient of NSF CAREER Award, SCIALOG (Advancing Bioimaging) Award, Amazon Research Award, Microscopy Innovation Award, McGinnis Medical Innovation Graduate Inaugural Fellowship, Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship (UIUC), and Nikon Photomicrography Competition Image of Distinction award. Her work has been featured on the Cancer Research Cover, PNAS Cover, and Nature Communications Editors’ Highlight.
Staff support:
Cathy Bourgeois
Federico Presutti
Ph.D., Cornell University, Applied Physics, 2024
B.S., Caltech, Applied Physics, 2017
Federico is a postdoc who joined the group in 2024. During his PhD in the McMahon lab at Cornell, his research was centered on nonlinear and quantum optics and spectro-temporal physics. Prior to graduate school, Federico was a software engineer and worked on lidar R&D. His interests lie at the intersection of photonics, sensing and computation. At the moment, his preferred leisure activities are mainly climbing and eating.
Li-Yu Yu
M.S., NTU, Photonics and Optoelectronics, 2019
B.S., NTU, Electrical Engineering, 2017
Li-Yu is a Ph.D. student at MIT EECS of year 2020. His current research focuses on seeing through scattering, addressing imaging and projection problems through complex media, in which the images are scrambled and concealed beneath plausibly random speckles. Before joining You lab, he worked on super-resolution imaging via microspheres and beam steering via metasurfaces at National Taiwan University at which he acquired his BS and MS degree. Li-Yu loves to play the guitar and Go (Weiqi) in his leisure time.
Honghao Cao
M.S., MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2024
B.E., HUST, Optoelectronic Engineering, 2022
Honghao is a Ph.D. student at MIT EECS of year 2022. He received his B.E. in Optoelectronic Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where he worked on multifunctional nanofibers. His current research focuses on nonlinear fiber optics and lasers for nonlinear microscopy. Honghao loves to play the guitar and watching anime.
Kunzan Liu
M.S., MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2024
B.E., Tsinghua University, Electronic Engineering, 2022
Kunzan is a Ph.D. student at MIT EECS of year 2022. He received his B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2022, where he worked on dimensionality reduction for wireless communications. His current research focuses on designing optics and algorithms for label-free nonlinear microscopy to study complex multicellular dynamics. In his free time, he likes to play the piano.
Jack Tomkiewicz
B.S., Rice University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024
Jack is a Ph.D. student at MIT EECS who joined in 2024. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, where he worked on confocal microscopy. His current research interests lie in the fields of nonlinear optics and microscopy. His hobbies include reading, cooking, and exercise.
Jiashu Han
B.S., Columbia University, Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2024
Jiashu Han is a Ph.D. student at MIT EECS who joined in 2024. He’s interested in applied deep learning, machine learning for microscopy, as well as high performance machine learning. In his free time, Jiashu loves sleeping.
Tade Marozsak
MEng, University of Oxford, Engineering Science, 2024
Tádé joined MIT EECS as a PhD student in 2024, and his current research focus lies in label-free multiphoton microscopy. Prior to joining the Computational Biophotonics Laboratory, he researched the applications of polarisation optics for biomedical imaging and communications. Beyond his studies, he enjoys hiking with friends and reading periodicals.
Alumni
- Qiu Tong (postdoc 2024, now Southeastern Assistant Professor)
- Kristina Monakhova (postdoc 2024, now Cornell Assistant Professor)
- Cassandra Ye (SuperUrop 2024, now Cornell PhD student)
- Rosendo Faura (MS thesis visiting student 2024, now EPFL M.S.)
- Richard Luhtaru (SuperUrop 2023, now Stanford PhD student)
- Connor Gerlach (MS 2023, now at Lincoln Lab)
- Irin Ghosh (Meng 2022, now at Lyft)
- Artem Gazizov (MS thesis visiting student 2022, now TMU M.S.)