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Short Course Instructors

NameAffiliationExpertise
Yama Akbari, MD, PhDNeurology, Internal Medicine, UCINeurophysiology and optical imaging of cerebral blood flow and metabolism
Mihaela Balu, PhDBeckman Laser Institute, UCIMultiphoton Microscopy, Skin Cancer, Imaging of vitiligo
Elliot Botvinick, PhDBiomedical Engineering Beckman Laser Institute, UCIMechanical stresses on cells, Capillary Morphogenesis, Diabetes Technologies
Bernard Choi, PhDBiomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, UCILaser speckle imaging, In-vivo optical imaging, Spectroscopy, Microscopy
Christian Crouzet, PhDBeckman Laser Institute, UCILaser speckle imaging, spectroscopy
David Cuccia, PhDModulim Inc.Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging, Technology Transfer
Michelle Digman, PhDBiomedical Engineering, UCIAdvanced fluorescence imaging for cancer metabolism and metastasis
Tony Durkin, PhDBiomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, UCISpatial Frequency Domain Imaging, In- vivo optical spectroscopy
Anand Ganesan, MD, PhDDermatology, Biological Chemistry, UCIRegulate melanin production, Control melanoma cell drug resistance
Carole Hayakawa, PhDChemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCIMonte Carlo, Perturbation Monte Carlo, Radiative Transport, Inverse Problems, Software Development
Tibor Juhasz, PhDBiomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, UCIFemtosecond laser surgery for ophthalmology
Kristen Kelly, MDDermatology, Surgery, UCIOptical diagnostics and therapeutics for dermatological conditions including vascular birthmarks and skin cancer
Gordon Kennedy, PhDBeckman Laser Institute, UCISpatial Frequency Domain Imaging, Supercontinuum Laser
Thomas O’Sullivan, PhDElectrical Engineering, University of Notre DameSystem Integration and Instrument Development, Optical Tissue Diagnostics, Signal Processing and Data Visualization
Thinh Phan, PhDBeckman Laser Institute, UCILaser speckle imaging, spatial frequency domain imaging
Eric Potma, PhDChemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, UCINonlinear optical microscopy (SRS/ CARS/SFG/TPEF), Nonlinear optics of molecules and nanostructures
Daryl Preece, PhDBiomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, UCINeurophotonics, optical tweezers, cellular biophotonics
Janaka
Ranasinghesagara, PhD
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCIBiophotonics Modeling & Computation, Focus Beam Propagation, Software Development
Rolf Saager, PhDBiomedical Engineering, Linköping University, SwedenDiffuse optical spectroscopy, Spatial frequency domain imaging
Dan Stokols, PhDPsychological Science, Urban Planning and Public Policy, UCIEnvironmental Psychology, Social Ecology, Team Science, Transdisciplinary Public Health
Vasan
Venugopalan, ScD
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, UCIRadiative transport, Mathematical modeling, Computational methods, Laser microbeam irradiation
Liangzhong “Shawn” Xiang, PhDRadiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, UCIOptoacoustic, x-ray induced acoustic computed tomography
Shuang Zhao, PhDComputer Science, UCIMonte Carlo, Radiative Transport, Shape Optimization
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