Principal Investigator

Research Interests: Biomedical Imaging; Medical Devices; Photonics; Image Processing; Biomedical Instrumentation; Spectroscopic Imaging; Mid-Infrared and Vibrational Spectroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography; Optical Imaging; Inverse Problems
Phd Students
Ragib Ishrak
Graduate Research Assistant,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Research Interests: Fourier Optics; Inverse Scattering Problems; Interferometric Imaging; Label Free Imaging; Signal and Image Processing
Pastime: Playing Guitar; Finding new things to learn
Email: rishrak@cougarnet.uh.edu
Aninda Nandy
Graduate Research Assistant,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Pastime: Cricket, Reading
Research Interests:Optical coherence tomography, Photothermal Imaging, Digital Image Processing, Fourier optics, Fibre Optics, Optical instrumentation.
Email: anandy@cougarnet.uh.edu
Reyad Hasan Rinkon
Graduate Research Assistant,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Research Interests: Generative adversarial network, Vision Transformer, Large Vision Models, Biomedical Signal Processing, Hyperspectral Imaging
Email: rrinkon@cougarnet.uh.edu
Dip Rahat Alam
Graduate Research Assistant,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Research Interests: Mid Infrared Spectroscopy,Optical Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography , Photo-thermal Imaging
Pastime: Watching Football
Email: dalam@cougarnet.uh.edu
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Behzad Khajavi, PhD
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Biomedical Imaging; Superpositions of Spatial and Polarization States of Light; Photonic Entanglement
Pastime: Weight lifting; Cooking
Email: bkhajavi@uh.edu
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HPhXUMQAAAAj&hl=e
Rupali Mankar, PhD
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Fellow
NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Image Processing; Spectroscopic Imaging; Computer vision
Office: W309, Engineering Building 2
Email: rdmankar@central.uh.edu
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MNUEz0QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Xinyu Wu
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Research Interests: Optical Design; Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System; 3D Imaging
Pastime: Snowboarding; Scuba Diving; Soccer
Email: kfqwxy@gmail.com
Chalapathi Charan Gajjela
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Research Interests: Biomedical Imaging; Photonics; Image Processing; Biomedical Instrumentation; Spectroscopic Imaging; Mid-Infrared and Photothermal Spectroscopy; Optical Imaging; Deep Learning
Pastime: Card tricks; Drawing portraits and Learning new languages.
Email: cgajjela@cougarnet.uh.edu