Shirel Belilty and Kristen Smith were selected as recipients of the Dr. Norman R. Weldon Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Student Research Internship for Summer 2025.
Daniela Leizaola won first place in the BME Graduate Research Day Poster Presentation Competition.
Aasma Dahal won 1st place in the BME Heart Day poster presentation competition.
Our Optical Imaging Lab delivered four oral talks and presented six posters at the SPIE Photonics West 2025 conference.
Shirel Belilty and Charles Policard were selected as CURE Researchers for Spring 2025; Karla Vasquez and Daniela Perez joined as CURE Trainees.
Armando Caro and Daniela Leizaola's abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at the WOCNext 2025 conference.
The lab has a new patent issued 'Skin Color Independent Flow-Based Diffuse Optical Imaging,' with Dr. Anuradha Godavarty and Dr. Kevin Leiva as co-inventors.
Dr. Anuradha Godavarty was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Research Experience
Lab members have been involved in various research projects, including the assessment of diabetic foot ulcers, vascular diagnostics, and small animal imaging.