2022

• Congratulations to Anushka Chakraborty for successfully completing her MS project!
• Congratulations to Carolina Bobadilla-Mendez for successfully completing her PhD thesis!
• Tommy presented his research on short-wave infrared imaging for tissue water quantification at the Gordon Conference in Maine
• Congratulations to Tessa Catuogno for successfully completing her MEng project!
• Congratulations to Amrita Poddar for successfully completing her MEng project!

2021

• Carolina's study on rare-earth nanoparticles for fluorescence guided surgery was published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
• Congratulations to Sujitha Jayaraj for successfully completing her MS study!
• Congratulations to Rahma Ismail for successfully completing her MEng project!
• Congratulations to Nina Ninua for successfully completing her MS study!

2020

• Congratulations to Aditya Dalal for successfully completing his MEng study!
• Congratulations to Jessica Guht for successfully completing her MEng study!
• Congratulations to Alexis Cruz for successfully completing her MEng study!
• Welcome back to James Soole (UIUC) for another summer research project!
• Prof Pierce presented the lab's research at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, CA in February 2020

2019

• Congratulations to Christine for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
• Carolina presented her research on imaging rare earth nanocomposites in tissue simulating phantoms at the annual BMES Conference in Philadelphia
• Christine's paper on applications of OCT in dentistry was published in Caries Research
• Welcome to James Soole (UIUC) and Juan Ayala (U Florida) who will be joining the lab for summer research projects
• JP's third paper on computational imaging through fiber optic bundles was published in Optics Letters
• Congratulations to JP for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
• Congratulations to Marissa for successfully defending her MS thesis!
• Christine and JP presented their research at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, CA in February 2019

2018

• Welcome to Josh Posen who will be joining the lab for summer research under a NJ Space Grant Consortium fellowship
• Prof. Pierce presented the lab's research at the SPIE Translational Biophotonics conference in Houston, TX in May 2018
• Christine and Carolina presented their research at the OSA Biomedical Optics conference in Hollywood, FL in April 2018
• JP presented his latest work at SPIE Photonics West in January 2018

2017

• Our collaborative work with Prof. Prabhas Moghe on tracking rare earth nanoparticles in metastatic cancer models was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
• Congratulations to Alex Magsam on getting his summer research with Michael Johnson and the Visikol team published!
• JP's second paper on computational optical imaging was published in Optics Express
• Congratulations to Khushbu for successfully completing her MS thesis defense!
• Congratulations to JP on receiving the 2017 Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey during its annual retreat
• Prof. Pierce presented Laura's research on SWIR imaging and JP's research on computational imaging at SPIE Photonics West in January 2017

2016

• Congratulations to Laura on successfully defending her PhD thesis research!
• Prof. Pierce presented Laura's research on SWIR imaging at the Gordon Research Conference in July 2016
• Welcome to Alex Magsam from the University of Nebraska who will be joining the lab for research as part of Prof David Shreiber's NSF REU program on Cellular Bioengineering in Summer 2016
• Congratulations to Christine on successfully defending her MS thesis research!
• Prof. Pierce presented research on short wave infrared imaging of rare-earth doped contrast agents at the SPIE Translational Biophotonics conference in May 2016
• Prof. Pierce and Prof. Bajwa (ECE) were awarded a DURIP grant from the Department of Defense to assemble a suite of high-end imaging cameras to support research in (i) signal processing of multimodal data, and (ii) soldier healthcare
• Our research with Leonard Kim and Atif Khan of CINJ was published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics
• Laura and JP presented their research at the OSA Biomedical Optics conference in Ft Lauderdale, FL in April 2016
• Laura's paper on intraoperative imaging of the parathyroid with Tomer Davidov MD was published in the Journal of Current Surgery
• JP's paper on computational imaging was published in Optics Express
• Prof. Pierce presented research from our collaboration with Dr Leonard Kim and Dr Atif Khan at the SPIE Photonics West conference in February 2016

2015

• Prof. Pierce, Laura, Christine, and Marleny presented their research at the BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL
• Prof. Pierce and Laura presented their research at the ECI Advances in Optics conference in Vail, CO
• Welcome to Marleny Arones (University of Florida) who is joining us for Prof. Shreiber's summer REU program
• Prof. Pierce and Prof. Bajwa (ECE) were awarded a 3-year grant from the NSF
• Prof. Pierce with Dr's Leonard Kim and Atif Khan (CINJ) were awarded a 1-year grant from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Prof. Pierce and Prof. Silver (RBHS) were awarded a 1-year grant from the NJ Health Foundation
• Prof. Pierce presented research from our collaboration with Prof's Moghe, Roth, and Riman at the SPIE Photonics West conference

2014

• Vipul successfully defended his MS thesis on the assembly and initial validation of a benchtop modulated imaging platform
• Mike successfully defended his MS thesis on the effect of structured illumination on HRME sectioning strength
• Laura presented her clinical study on thyroid imaging at the BMES 2014 annual conference
• Prof. Pierce attended the SPIE Translational Biophotonics symposium in Houston, TX.
• Laura's research on a combined OCT / high-resolution fluorescence handpiece was published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics
• Laura presented her design and assembly of an OCT / fluorescence handpiece at the NIH Point-of-Care Technologies for Cancer conference

2013

• Prof. Pierce presented an overview of the lab's research at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's Dept of Surgery, Grand Rounds
• Mike's paper on sectioning strength in HRME imaging was published in Biomedical Optics Express

2012

• Prof. Pierce was awarded a 1-year grant from the Busch Biomedical Foundation