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MBM faculty continue to excel in their fields. Here are a few highlights of recent accomplishments:
In January, Gabriel Popescu received the 2022 International Society for Optics and Photonics Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics for his outstanding achievements in …
Gabriel Popescu, William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and core faculty in MBM, spoke on “Phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) for biomedical applications” April 13, 2022 at 4:00pm on Zoom. Shannon Berneche, MBM Trainee and …
MBM faculty Gabriel Popescu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently named as one of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows of the Class of 2021. Popescu was nominated, reviewed, and elected by his peers and …
MBM faculty have been busy over the past few months! Here are a few highlights:
Gelson Pagan-Diaz, Karla Ramos-Cruz, and Rashid Bashir found that training neurons early in their development improved their connectivity and responsivity. Pagan-Diaz is the first author …
MBM trainee Mikhail Kandel recently published an article on his research into using label-free imaging and artificial intelligence to help predict reproductive outcomes. The technique determines the potential fertility of sperm samples in cattle and may help improve technology for …
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2019 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
MBM Trainee Mikhail Kandel recently published an article titled “Epi-illumination gradient light interference microscopy for imaging opaque structures” in Nature Communications.
The article, published in October 2019, details how Kandel et al. built a new kind of microscope for …
Congratulations to MBM trainee Mikhail Kandel, whose article on “Cell-to-Cell on growth in large populations” is now published in Biomedical Optics Express! The article appears in Volume 10, Issue 9. MBM faculty Gabriel Popescu contributed to the article, as …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Gabriel Popescu, who recently published the first volume of his six-volume book Principles of Biophotonics, a textbook to help readers learn basic concepts and methods related to the field of biomedical optics.
Congratulations to MBM faculty Gabi Popescu, who received the 2018 Innovation Award by Microscopy Today!
The award was bestowed for the development of Gradient Light Interference Microscopy (GLIM), a low-coherence interference microscopy system. GLIM is a new method that solves …