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Principal Investigator

Jian Zhao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering

Affiliate Member, Stephenson Cancer Center

University of Oklahoma
E-mail: jian.zhao@ou.edu

Link to University Profile

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biology & Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

       Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sep 2022 – Dec 2024)

       Postdoctoral Associate, Photonics Center, Boston University (Oct 2019 – Aug 2022)

  • Research Scientist, CREOL, University of Central Florida (Sep 2019)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics, CREOL, University of Central Florida (Aug 2019)

       BS in Optics, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University (Jun. 2012)

Areas of Interest

  • Chemical microscopy

  • Fluorescence microscopy

  • Computational microscopy

  • Deep learning applications in optics

  • Fiber optics

Postdocs

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Yuening Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
School of Biomedical Engineering
University of Oklahoma

E-mail: yuening.zhang-1@ou.edu

​Education

  • Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2022)

Research Interests

  •  Nonlinear optics, supramolecular chemistry, chemical microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, wet-lab protocol development.

Graduate Students

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Zhou Jiang

PhD Student

President, OU SPIE Student Chapter
School of Biomedical Engineering
University of Oklahoma

E-mail: zhou.jiang-1@ou.edu

​Education

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology (2025)

Research Interests

  •  Chemical microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, computational microscopy, deep learning for optical imaging, biomedical applications of optical microscopy

Undergraduate Students

Abigail Jaramillo

Undergraduate Student
School of Biomedical Engineering
University of Oklahoma

E-mail: abigail.l.jaramillo-1@ou.edu

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