Trainees
Training the next generation of Biophotonics Innovators! As an NIH-funded P41, NCIBT is committed to training the next generation of scientists, engineers, clinicians, and technology developers. Through hands-on research experiences, workshops, mentorship, and collaborative projects, our trainees gain access to leading-edge biophotonic technologies and expertise that they bring back to their institutions and research communities.
Current Trainees and Research Personnel
| Name | Position | Lab | Technology |
| Mohamed Hassan, PhD | Project Scientist | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Joe Majeski | Research Associate | UPenn | TRD2 |
| Rodrigo Menezes | Research Associate | UPenn | TRD2 |
| Mingjun Zhao, PhD | Research Scientist | Srinivasan Lab (NYU Langone) | TRD2 |
| Bryan Chong | Resident | UPenn | TRD2 |
| Andrew Thrapp, PhD | Engineering Director | NCIBT | TRD2 |
| Lisanne Kraft, MsC | Junior Specialist | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Sean Gallogly | Junior Specialist | NCIBT | TRD1 |
| Xiangnan Zhou, PhD | PostDoc | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Alexandra Adams, PhD | PostDoc | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Sayan Palui, PhD | PostDoc | ALBA Lab | TRD1 |
| Santosh Aparanji, PhD | PostDoc | Srinivasan Lab (NYU Langone) | TRD2 |
| Rabisankar Samanta, PhD | PostDoc | Srinivasan Lab (NYU Langone) | TRD2 |
| Paloma Costa, PhD | PostDoc | Ozcan Lab (UCLA) | TRD3 |
| Xiangping Ouyang | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Clara Kristen | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Nhan Nguyen, PhD | Grad Student | ALBA Lab | TRD1 |
| Hemang Singh, PhD | Grad Student | ALBA Lab | TRD1 |
| Brayan Hernandez Perez, PhD | Grad Student | ALBA Lab | TRD1 |
| Ahasan Ahamed, PhD | Grad Student | Islam Lab | TRD1 |
| Rifat Bin Sultan | Grad Student | Islam Lab | TRD1 |
| Lisa Mcphillips | Grad Student | Islam Lab | TRD1 |
| Cheng-Yu Lee, PhD | Grad Student | Li Lab (Johns Hopkins) | TRD1 |
| Shing-Jiuan Liu | Grad Student | Yang Lab | TRD2 |
| Rishad Joarder | Grad Student | Ghiasi Lab | TRD2 |
| Weitai Qian | Grad Student | Ghiasi Lab | TRD2 |
| Mahya Saffarpour | Grad Student | Ghiasi Lab | TRD2 |
| Zixiao Zhang | Grad Student | Yang Lab | TRD2 |
| Ao Fu | Grad Student | Yang Lab | TRD2 |
| Kenneth Abramson | Grad Student | UPenn | TRD2 |
| Nithin Ramachandran | Grad Student | UPenn | TRD2 |
| Mike Yang | Grad Student | Ozcan Lab (UCLA) | TRD3 |
| Stefan Broecker | Grad Student | Strohmer Lab | TRD3 |
| Yuan Ni | Grad Student | Strohmer Lab | TRD3 |
| Xiwei Xuan | Grad Student | Ma Lab | TRD3 |
| Zili Wang | Grad Student | Ma Lab | TRD3 |
| Lei Zhou | Grad Student | Qi Lab | TRD3 |
| Ritesh Patro | Grad Student | Ma Lab | TRD3 |
| Emma Pham | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Dora D'Accardo | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Cyrus Ordoubadian | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Chassie Kuang | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Xinyi Li | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Elizabeth Merten | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Charles Wong | Undergraduate | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
Past Trainees and Research Personnel
| Name | Position | Lab | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alba Alfonso-Garcia, PhD * | Project Scientist | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Muhammed Adeel Azam, PhD | PostDoc | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Xuhui Liu, PhD | PostDoc | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Katjana Ehrlich, PhD | PostDoc | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Amita Rawat | PostDoc | Islam Lab | TRD1 |
| Kelsey T Hadfield | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Silvia Noble Anbunesan | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Haleh Mohammadian | Grad Student | Islam Lab | TRD1 |
| Alexander Taffe | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Pu Sun | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Clara Kristen ** | Grad Student | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Girish Kumar | Grad Student | Strohmer Lab | TRD3 |
| Xue Feng | Grad Student | Strohmer Lab | TRD3 |
| Divyanshu Malik | Grad Student | Ma Lab | TRD3 |
| Tarun Tiwari | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Sourin Chakrabarti | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Shreya Gundu | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Vikram Karmarkar | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Ruhi Aggarwal | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Suparn Sathya | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Aaryan Vira | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Alex Condon | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Aparna Chatterjee | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Kanksha Koti | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Miles Huang | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Arjun Ashok | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Ayush Tripathi | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Sanjana Gumma | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Christine Arakkal | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Fatima Hanif | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Zack Zhang | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
| Yash Tipirneni | Undergrad | MarcuLab | TRD1 |
*Transitioned to new faculty member
** Transitioned from Master to PhD trainee
Interventional Biophotonics Week Trainees
| Year Attended | Name | Role | Affiliation |
| 2025 | Sarah Rezapourdamanab | Postdoc | Emory University |
| 2025 | Cassandra Cook | Research Scientist | Emory University |
| 2025 | Eugenie Dulout | Research Scientist | Emory University |
| 2025 | Vimalatharmaiyah Gnanaruban | Research Scientist | Emory University |
| 2025 | Ruben Renteria | Research Scientist | Emory University |
| 2024 | Sricharan Pusarla | High School student (11th grade) | Folsom High School |
| 2023 | Elena Corbetta | Graduate Student | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
| 2026 | Abid Qureshi | Orthopedic Surgeon | Golden State Orthopedics and Spine |
| 2026 | Clare Cook | Postdoc | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2025 | Stella Greiner | Graduate PhD Student | Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies, Germany |
| 2025 | Marie-Luise Enghardt | Graduate PhD Student | Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies, Germany |
| 2024 | Constanze Schultz | Graduate Student | Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies, Germany |
| 2024 | Carl Messerschmidt | Graduate Student | Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies, Germany |
| 2023 | Matteo Calvarese | Graduate Student | Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies, Germany |
| 2023 | Marko Rodewald | Research Scientist | Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies, Germany |
| 2024 | Andrew Thrapp | Research Scientist | Mass Gen Hos / Harvard Med |
| 2023 | Liu Dongyu | Postdoc | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2023 | Ryan Schoop | Graduate Student | Netherlands Cancer Institute |
| 2024 | Rabisankar Samanta | Postdoc | NYU Langone Health |
| 2023 | Dibbyan Mazumder | Postdoc | NYU Langone Health |
| 2024 | Mingjun Zhao | Research Scientist | NYU Langone Health |
| 2023 | Mingjun Zhao, PhD | Research Scientist | NYU Langone Health |
| 2025 | Anas Masillati | Graduate PhD Student | Oregon Health & Science University |
| 2025 | Piotr Kasprzycki | Postdoc | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 2025 | Ivan Rech | Associate Professor | Politecnico di Milano |
| 2025 | Piergiorgio Daniele | Graduate PhD Student | Politecnico di Milano |
| 2025 | Gennaro Fratta | Graduate PhD Student | Politecnico di Milano |
| 2025 | Logan Swartz | Research Scientist | Singular Genomics |
| 2023 | David Park | Assistant Professor | Stanford University |
| 2023 | Diana Jeong | Postdoc | Stanford University |
| 2026 | Henry Sansom | Postdoc | Technical University of Denmark |
| 2026 | Calvin Bull | Research Scientist | University of Applied Sciences Jena |
| 2026 | Annegret Umann | Research Scientist | University of Applied Sciences Jena |
| 2026 | Alexander Guembel | Research Scientist | University of Applied Sciences Jena |
| 2026 | Christian Krueger | Research Scientist | University of Applied Sciences Jena |
| 2026 | Noelle Daigle | Graduate PhD Student | University of Arizona |
| 2023 | Jiabin Chen | Graduate Student | University of Arizona |
| 2026 | Eliana Stilson | Research Scientist | University of Arizona |
| 2024 | Paloma Casteleiro Costa | Postdoc | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2025 | Aran Sandhu | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2024 | Pegah Safavi | Graduate Student | University of Kentucky |
| 2023 | Josephy Majeski | Postdoc | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2023 | Paula Villarreal | Graduate Student | University of Texas medical Branch Galveston |
| 2024 | Hidenori Tanaka | Assistant Professor | Vanderbilt University |
| 2023 | Ashtyn McAdoo | Graduate Student | Vanderbilt University |
| 2026 | Aalap Herur-Raman | Resident Physician | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2026 | Adrien Dupanloup | Assistant Professor | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Yuheng Wan | Graduate PhD Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Sudhanshu Shrivastava | Graduate PhD Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Clara Kristen | Graduate PhD Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Ben Mattison | Graduate PhD Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Rebecca Mayer | Graduate PhD Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Alperen Yilgin | Graduate PhD Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Ao Fu | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Brendan Barlow | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Anika Kulkarni | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Ritesh Patro | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Brayan Perez | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Xiangping Ouyang | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Pujan Desai | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Yifei Gu | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Clara Kristen | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Arish Naim | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Nhan Nguyen | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Hannah O'Toole | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Xiangping Ouyang | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Rifat Bin Sultan | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Zixiao Zhang | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Anqi Zhang | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Lei Zhou | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Kwan Lun "Victor" Chiu | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Yifei Gu | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Elizabeth Hale | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Yucheng "Steven" Li | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Divyanshu Malik | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Ben Mattison | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Rebecca Mayer | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Silvia Noble Anbunesan | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Hannah O'Toole | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Xiangping Ouyang | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Lei Zhou | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Kelsey Hadfield | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Silvia Noble Anbunesan | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Ankit Singh | Graduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Zahraa Odda | Junior Specialist | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Jocelyn Jensen | Junior Specialist | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Dena Sayrafi | Junior Specialist | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Iris Rivas | Junior Specialist | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Alex Adams | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | FNU Ankur | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Yao Cai | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Xuhui Liu | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Alex Adams | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Katjana Ehrlich | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Qing He | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Xuhui "Michael" Liu | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Nimu Yuan | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Xiangnan Zhou | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Xiangnan Zhou, PhD | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Katjana Ehrlich, PhD | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Mohamed Hassan, PhD | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2023 | Xuhui Liu, PhD | Postdoc | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Maneesh Dave | Professor | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Shiro Urayama | Professor | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Rateesh Kumar Meleppat | Research Scientist | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Tan Hua | Research Scientist | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Willy Ju | Research Scientist | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Rateesh Kumar Meleppat | Research Scientist | University of California, Davis |
| 2026 | Charles Wong | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Regina Rajbanshi | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Kabir Bedi | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Chassie Kuang | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2025 | Anastasia Trushchankova | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Davis |
| 2024 | Abraham Morales | Undergraduate Student | University of California, Davis |