People
Principal Investigator
Audrey K (Ellerbee) Bowden
Office: 316 Keck FEL Building
Phone: 615-343-4339
Email: a.bowden[at]vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Bowden is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Affiliate Faculty at Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, her PhD in BME from Duke University and completed her postdoctoral training in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. During her career, Dr. Bowden served as an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and as a Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate through the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program sponsored by the OSA and SPIE. She is a member of the OSA, a Senior Member of SPIE and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Air Force Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, the Hellman Faculty Scholars Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award. She is a former Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal and a member of numerous professional committees. Her research interests include biomedical optics, microfluidics, and point of care diagnostics.
Current Lab Members
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Halina Krzyzanowska
Research Assistant Professor
Email: halina.t.krzyzanowska@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Optical Coherence Tomography for early-stage cancer detection, biomedical optics, silicon integrated photonics, erbium doped/rare earth materials, color centers in wide-band gap materials for quantum applications, and ultrafast linear and nonlinear electron and phonon relaxation dynamics
Keywords: OCT, early detection of cancer, light-matter processes studied via ultrafast linear and non-linear interactions with nanoscale materials, Er doped silicon-based nanostructures, NV-centers in diamond, ultrafast laser-assisted diamond growth, semiconductor nanocrystals fabricated by ion implantation
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Shuang (Grace) Chang
Graduate student
Email: shuang.chang@vanderbilt.edu
Research: OCT image analysis for early detection of glaucoma. OCT cystoscopy system for bladder cancer detection.
Keywords: OCT, Attenuation Coefficient, Light-Tissue Interaction, Disease Detection.
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Anupam Kumar
Graduate student
Email: anupam.kumar@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Developing low-cost portable fNIR system.
Keywords: fNIR, cognitive monitoring, intraoperative detection
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Yunqin Zhao
Graduate student
Email: yunqin.zhao@vanderbilt.edu
Research:
Keywords: OCT, embryology
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Rachel Eimen
Graduate student
Email: rachel.l.eimen@vanderbilt.edu
Research: 3D bladder and hollow organ reconstruction from flexible endoscopic data
Keywords: 3D reconstruction, endoscopy, optical coherence tomography, white light microscopy
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Seth Crawford
Graduate student
Email: seth.b.crawford@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of fNIRS headband system
Keywords: fNIRS, headband, 3D printing
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Xiao Tang
Graduate student
Email: xiao.tang@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of a low-cost and low-resource OCT system
Keywords: OCT, ophthalmology, 3D imaging
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Camella Carlson
MSTP (MD/PhD student)
Email: camella.j.carlson@vanderbilt.edu
Research: OCT cystoscopy system and digital staining of cystoscopy videos for bladder cancer detection
Keywords: OCT, intraoperative guidance tools, disease detection
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Tiffany Le
Undergraduate student
Email: tiffany-chau.h.le@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Low-cost fNIRS enclosure development for naturalistic conditions
Keywords: fNIRS, 3D CAD, simulation, 3D printing, injection molding
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Mayaank Pillai
Undergraduate student
Email: mayaank.p.pillai@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Automated virtual 3D bladder reconstruction for post-cystoscopy analysis
Keywords: Endoscopy, cystoscopy, 3D reconstruction, computer vision
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Haoli Yin
Undergraduate student
Email: haoli.yin@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Developing an automated specular reflection restoration technique to improve virtual 3D models created from endoscopy videos
Keywords: Endoscopy, computer vision, specular reflection removal
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Greyson Wintergerst
Undergraduate student
Email: greyson.a.wintergerst@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of a robust dipstick urinalysis system with integrated dipstick evaluation and microscopic analysis
Keywords: Urinalysis, low-resource setting
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Daniel Liu
Undergraduate student
Email: daniel.x.liu@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Low-cost fNIRS development for intraoperative cardiac surgery POD monitoring
Keywords: App development, prototype scaling, cognitive monitoring
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Jacob Stoebner
Undergraduate student
Email: jacob.a.stoebner@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of low-cost digital refocusing microscope
Keywords: 3D printing, embryology
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Former Lab Members
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Prasobh Padmanabhan
Postdoctoral scholar
Current position:
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Joseph Malone
Graduate student
Current position:
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Micha Emmanual Faciolan Bermoy
Undergraduate student
Current position:
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Allison (Ally) Schwarz
Undergraduate student
Current position:
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Natalie Thomas
Undergraduate student
Current position:
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Hongkai Jiang
Undergraduate student
Current position: Epic Systems
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Phillip Yoon
Undergraduate student
Current position:
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Iftak Hussain
Postdoctoral scholar
Current position:
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Kara Semmen
Undergraduate student
Current position: University of Central Florida
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Jose Gonzales Ramirez
Undergraduate student
Current position: St. Olaf College
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Danielle Liu
MSTP (MD/PhD) student
Current position: Vanderbilt University
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Harmony Bickerton
Undergraduate student
Current position: Vanderbilt University
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Kevin Ifiora
Undergraduate student
Current position: Boston Consulting Group
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Francis Tsow
Research professor
Current position: University of South Florida
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Emily Kight
Graduate student
Current position: Nou Systems, Inc.
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Behnam Tayebi
Postdoc
Current position: New York University
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Zhu Yue
Postdoc
Current position: Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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Morteza Khaleghi
Postdoc
Current position: facebook
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Noé Ortega-Quijano
Postdoc
Current position: Deneb Medical, S.L., Spain
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Lian Duan
Postdoc
Current position: Optical Engineer at DigiLens Inc.
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Abhijit Gudjarpadhye
Postdoc
Current position:
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Tobias Moritz
Postdoc
Current position: Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
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Saara Khan
Ph.D.
Current position: Hardware at Facebook
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Kristen Lurie
Ph.D.
Current position: Software Engineer at Google
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Hee Yoon Lee
Ph.D.
Current position: Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Lab
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Tahereh Marvdashti
Ph.D.
Current position: Data Scientist at Wolters Kluwer Health
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Michael Leung
Ph.D.
Current position
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Gennifer Smith
Ph.D.
Current position:
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Supervised Students (Research Experiences)
* Names denoted with an asterisk are non-Stanford students
Undergraduate
Christopher Copeland
Gary C.F. Lee
Matthew Millett
Kiran Magar
Monica Agrawal
*Meagan Pipes
*Robin Guay-Lord
Monica Bendernagel
Nicholas Hewitt
Alexander Kucy
Matthew Kahane
Graduate
Timnit Gebru
Ruo Gu
Jenny Knall
Linkai Li
Cezanne Comacho
Sebastian Echegaray
David Freese
William Ling
Jessica Maxey
Yue Zhang
Noy Cohen
Supervised PhD Thesis / Exam Committees
Sandra Kjono
Orly Liba
Nathan Loewke
Christine Cordaino
Kassahun Betre
Irena Fischer-Hwang
Gabriel Sanchez
Livia Zarnescu
Eileen Mazzochette
Henrique daCosta
Jonas Ogien
Lana Lau
Laura Huntley
Steven Hong
Emel Tasyurek
Reeve Ingle
Supervised PhD Students (non-Stanford visiting students)
Antoine Federici
Mahta Mousavi gra
Henrique S. Gutierrez da Costa
Helge Sudkamp
Yue Zhu
Iris Ellerkamp