People

Sixian You

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019
B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2013

sixian@mit.edu

Sixian You is the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Principal Investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019 and her B.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, in 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 received the NSF CAREER Award, SCIALOG Award for Advancing BioImaging, Amazon Research Award, Microscopy Innovation Award, McGinnis Medical Innovation Graduate Fellowship, Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship at UIUC, and Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition Image of Distinction Award. Her work has been featured on the covers of Nature Methods, Cancer Research, and PNAS, and as a Nature Communications Editors’ Highlight.

Federico Presutti

Ph.D., Cornell University, Applied Physics, 2024
B.S., California Institute of Technology, Applied Physics, 2017

fpresutt@mit.edu

Federico is a postdoctoral associate who joined the group in 2024. During his Ph.D. in the McMahon Lab at Cornell, his research centered on nonlinear and quantum optics and spectro-temporal physics. Before graduate school, Federico was a software engineer and worked on lidar research and development. His interests lie at the intersection of photonics, sensing, and computation. His preferred leisure activities are climbing and eating.

Li-Yu Yu

M.S., National Taiwan University, Photonics and Optoelectronics, 2019
B.S., National Taiwan University, Electrical Engineering, 2017

lyyu@mit.edu

Li-Yu joined MIT EECS as a Ph.D. student in 2020. His current research focuses on seeing through scattering and addressing imaging and projection problems through complex media, in which images are scrambled and concealed beneath plausibly random speckles. Before joining the You Lab, he worked on super-resolution imaging using microspheres and beam steering using metasurfaces at National Taiwan University, where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees. Li-Yu enjoys playing the guitar and Go (Weiqi) in his leisure time.

Honghao Cao

M.S., MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2024
B.E., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Optoelectronic Engineering, 2022

honghao@mit.edu

Honghao joined MIT EECS as a Ph.D. student in 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 enjoys playing the guitar and watching anime.

Kunzan Liu

M.S., MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2024
B.E., Tsinghua University, Electronic Engineering, 2022

kunzan@mit.edu

Kunzan joined MIT EECS as a Ph.D. student in 2022. He received his B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, 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 enjoys playing the piano.

Jack Tomkiewicz

B.S., Rice University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024
M.S., MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2026

jtomk@mit.edu

Jack joined MIT EECS as a Ph.D. student 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 nonlinear optics and microscopy. His hobbies include reading, cooking, and exercising.

Jiashu Han

B.S., Columbia University, Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2024

jhan815@mit.edu

Jiashu joined MIT EECS as a Ph.D. student in 2024. He is interested in applied deep learning, machine learning for microscopy, and high-performance machine learning. In his free time, Jiashu enjoys sleeping.

Tádé Marozsák

M.Eng., University of Oxford, Engineering Science, 2024

marozsak@mit.edu

Tádé joined MIT EECS as a Ph.D. student in 2024. His current research focuses on label-free multiphoton microscopy. Before joining the Computational Biophotonics Laboratory, he researched applications of polarization optics for biomedical imaging and communications. Beyond his studies, he enjoys hiking with friends and reading periodicals.

Chung-En Huang

M.S., National Taiwan University, Photonics and Optoelectronics, 2024

cehuang@mit.edu

Chung-En joined the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a Ph.D. student in 2025. He received his M.S. in Optics and Photonics from National Taiwan University in 2024, where he focused on developing miniaturized nonlinear endoscopes to visualize and decode brain function in mice. His current research interests lie in advancing nonlinear microscopy systems to explore biomedical phenomena and enable new scientific discoveries. Beyond research, he enjoys hiking, trail walking, and running marathons.

Jeffery Lin

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Molecular Biology, expected 2027

jefferyl@mit.edu

Jeffery is an undergraduate student who joined the group in 2026. He is a senior studying Computer Science and Molecular Biology at MIT. His research interests involve building interpretable, mechanistic machine-learning models to better understand biological systems. In the lab, he hopes to develop image-analysis approaches that enable new biological discoveries. In his spare time, he enjoys eating and playing and watching basketball.

Jui-Chi (Terry) Chang

M.S., National Cheng Kung University, Mechanical Engineering, 2021

terry254@mit.edu

Terry is a one-year visiting student who joined the group in 2025. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. His research focuses on developing temporal-focusing multiphoton microscopy for real-time imaging and ultrashort laser-pulse shaping, with a particular interest in real-time laser optimization during live-sample inspection. Outside his studies, he enjoys working out, playing the violin, and building plastic models.

Mingze Jiang

B.E., Tsinghua University, Computer Science and Technology, expected 2027

mingze42@mit.edu

Mingze is a visiting student who joined the group in 2026. She is an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and biomedical imaging, with a focus on developing learning-based methods for extracting meaningful representations from complex biomedical data. In her spare time, she enjoys skating.