Welcome! Our group is interested in the development and applications of novel optical tools to study essential problems in chemistry, biology and materials science.

One PhD position is available for Fall 2025.

News

[07/24/25] Jeevika presented deep profiling of lung tissues for the REU poster showcase.
[05/19/25] Jeevika joins our lab for the NSF REU program. Welcome!
[02/18/25] Katie presented her work at 2025 BPS annual meeting.
[12/11/24] KY attended the last 4DN annual meeting at San Diego.
[06/19/24] Farewell party for Crystal. Good luck in KLA.
[06/15/24] KY has been nominated to the NIH EBIT Study Section member.
[05/10/24] Katie has been selected as a recipient of the UCF Multidisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!!
[03/25/24] Le-Mei & Bethany presented their works at FOM 2024 in Genoa, Italy.
[01/29/24] Abdullah & Le-Mei attended SPIE Photonics West.
[10/13/23] Crystal defended her dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Weng!
[09/23/23] Our collaborative work with Yoon Kim’s lab at Rutgers has been published in Acta Neuropathologica.
[08/16/23] Bye Vahid. We will miss you.
[08/07/23] Welcome new graduate students, Xiaotong, Xuan & Katie!
[07/03/23] Vahid’s work has been featured in the main page of CommsBio.
[06/27/23] Gentle STED paper came out!
[06/20/23] Vahid successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Ebrahimi!
[05/18/23] KY gave an invited talk at ETOP 2023.
[05/15/23] Welcome, Krina.
[05/07/23] KY gave a short course lecture at CLEO.
[02/06/23] Shaheen from RPI visits us for 3D lithography projects.
[01/28/23] We attended SPIE Photonics West 2023.
[01/03/23] Welcome Prof. Chaitanya Ullal from RPI for his sabbatical in our lab.
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Our research has been supported by the following:

NIGMS (MIRA & R21)
NIH Common Fund
Biophotonics
DARPA

Highlights

3D subdiffraction lithography [ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025]
Photonic lantern TIRF [Opt.Exp. 2024]
Highly sensitive volumetric single-molecule imaging [Nanophotonics, 2024]

Fast, gentle live-cell STED by deep learning [Commun. Biol. 2023]

Single-shot nondiffracting light-sheet microscopy [Opt.Exp.2021]
Double-pass configuration 2.5DM [Opt.Exp.2021]
2.5D microscopy [ACS Photonics 2021]