Principal Investigator

chemical holography instrumentation
David Mayerich

Associate Professor
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
NSF CAREER Awardee

photonics, microscopy, high performance computing

Senior Researchers

Lang Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

optics, optical modeling, scattering, optical imaging

Junior Researchers

Meher Niger

PhD Candidate
[2020 –]

vascular segmentation, level set methods, high-performance computing

Helya Goharbavang

PhD Candidate
[2022 –]

segmentation, high-performance computing, tensor fields, vascular networks

Artem Ashitkov

Undergraduate
[2023 –]

HPC, biological modeling

Mahshid Babeli Nia

PhD Candidate
[2024 –]

image registration, optimization, histology segmentation

Nathan Touchet

MS Student
[2025 –]

vascular modeling, instrumentation

Alumni

Nathaly Andrea Castaneda Quintero

PhD [2025]

superconducting materials

Omar Baig

MS [2024]

HPC, tensor fields

Ruijiao Sun

PhD [2024]

HPC, optical scattering

Dilani Gunawardhana

Postdoc [2023]
PhD [2022]

deconvolution, expansion microscopy

Jiaming Guo

Postdoc [2022]
PhD [2020]

HPC, optics, microscopy

Tasha Womack

Postdoc [2022]

histology

Pavel Govyadinov

NLM Fellow [2022]
PhD [2019]

HPC, network analysis

Camille Artur

Postdoc [2021]

physics, optics, histology

Mahsa Lotfollahi

PhD [2020]

HPC, image processing

Jiabing Li

PhD [2020]

image segmentation, machine learning

Shihao Ran

PhD [2020]

optics, holography, spectroscopy

Sebastian Berisha

NLM Fellow [2019]

spectroscopy, machine learning

Rupali Mankar

PhD [2019]

spectroscopy, machine learning

Leila Saadatifard

PhD [2019]

image segmentation, machine learning

Srijani Mukherjee

MS [2017]

HPC, tensor fields

Pranathi Vemuri

MS [2016]

segmentation, visualization

Undergraduate Research Internships

Maximillian Bluhm


NSF BRAIN REU [2023]

Rebecca Clements


NSF BRAIN REU [2020]

Shengyuan Chang


HUST Fellowship [2016]

Tianshu Cheng


HUST Fellowship [2015]

Ziqi He


HUST Fellowship [2014]