The Structure Function Imaging Lab is happy to congratulate our first doctoral degree recipient, Yu Gan! We also celebrate Frank Yao’s graduation. Yu and Frank worked together to describe the ultrastructure of human cervical tissue with optical coherence tomography. This work will pave the way for the understanding of pre-term birth. Congratulations Yu and Frank!
Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has won the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the highest honor the U.S. government gives to young scientists and engineers. Hendon, who develops innovative medical imaging instruments for use in surgery and breast cancer detection, is one of 102 researchers from across the nation named by President Obama on January 9.
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Xinwen Yao is one of two current electrical engineering PhD students selected for the 2016 Rising Stars in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Workshop. Hosted at Carnegie Mellon University campus in collaboration with MIT’s EECS department on the weekend of October 30th, the workshop gathers the world’s most promising women Ph. D student, postdocs, and engineers/scientists. Read the full article
Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has won a $1.5 million five-year New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under its High Risk-High Reward program for scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research. Read the full article by Holly Evarts.
Xinwen Yao and Rajinder Singh-Moon, PhD students in Professor Christine Hendon’s Structure-Function Imaging Laboratory group, won poster awards at the 2016 OSA Biomedical Optics Congress. Read the full article.
Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for her project, “Structure-Functional Imaging of the Atrial Myocardium.” Read the full article by Holly Evarts.
MIT Technology Review today revealed its prestigious annual list of 35 top young innovators, which includes Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Christine Fleming. Read the full article by Holly Evarts.