Ph.D. Alumni

Raymond Sova, Ph.D. 2003

Dissertation title: Multi-rate soliton pulse train generator based on novel fiber optic components

Current Position: senior technical staff at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Chang-Seok Kim, Ph.D. 2004

Dissertation title: Tunable multi-wavelength fiber lasers based on novel fiber-optic components

Current Position: Professor at the Pusan National University, South Korea

Gang Chen, Ph.D. 2005

Dissertation title: Optical Waveguide Devices Based on Fiber Sagnac Interferometers and Photonic Crystals

Current Position: Photonics Engineer, CEYX Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA

Utkarsh Sharma, Ph.D. 2006
Education: B.Tech. in Engineering Physics at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Ph.D.  in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Dissertation title: Fiber Lasers and All-fiber Optic Devices for Applications in Sensing and Medical Imaging

Current Position: Managing Director, Catapult Sky, OH

Do-Hyun Kim, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation title: Fiber Optic Confocal Microscopy for Biomedical Imaging

Current Position: Research Staff, FDA, Rockville, MD

Abner Rodriquez, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation title: All-Fiber Endoscopic Optical Imaging Devices

Current Position: Research Engineer, Naval Surface Weapon Center, PA

Scott Hendrickson, Ph.D. 2009

Dissertation title: Guided-Wave Evanescent Field Devices

Current Position: Technical Staff Member, JHU APL, MD

Jae-Ho Han, Ph.D. 2010

Dissertation title: Common Path Optical Coherence Tomography Based on Fiber Bundle Imager

Current Position: Professor, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

 Xuan Liu, Ph.D. 2011

B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology at Tsinghua University and M.S. in Physics at Tsinghua University

Dissertation title: Functional Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Guiding Vitreoretinal Surgery

Current Position: Associate Professor, BME, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Kang Zhang, Ph.D. 2011

Dissertation title: Functional Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Guiding Vitreoretinal Surgery

Current Position: Director at BlackRock

Yong Huang: Ph.D. 2013

Dissertation title: Intraoperative Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Microsurgery Guidance and Assessment

Current Position: Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology

Daguang Xu: Ph.D. 2014

Education: B.S. in Engineering  Physics at Tsinghua University

Dissertation title: Compressive sensing for spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Current Position: Research Manager at AI-Infra of NVIDIA

Richard Jaepyeong Cha: Ph.D. 2015
Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering & M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Seoul National University

Dissertation title: Fiber-optic bundle fluorescence microscopy for functional brain activity mapping

Current Position: Assistant Professor, George Washington University

Gyeongwoo Cheon: Ph.D. 2016

Education: B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University

Dissertation title: Optical Coherence Tomography Distal Sensor Based Handheld Microsurgical Tools

Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Hanh Le, Ph.D. 2018

Dissertation Title: 3D structured Illumination Microendoscope for surgical guidance

Current Position: Imaging Systems Engineer at Spectral, MD

Phillip Wilcox: Ph.D. 2020

Dissertation Title: Automated Spore Analysis using Bright-Field Imaging and Raman Microscopy

Current Position: Electrical Engineer, US Army CCDC Chemical Biological Center

Rebecca Pak, Ph.D. 2021

Education: B.S. in Bioengineering with minors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley and Ph.D.  in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Dissertation Title: Development of Minimally-Invasive Optical Neuroimaging Systems

Current Position: Engineer at Intuitive Surgical

Soohyun Lee, Ph.D. 2021

Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST)

Dissertation Title: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) – guided ophthalmic therapy

Current Position: Post-Doc, Ohio State University

Shoujing Guo, Ph.D. 2022


Education: B.S. at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Dissertation Title: Intraoperative optical coherence tomography guided deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty: Current Position: Research Engineer, KLA

Shuwen Wei, Ph.D. 2022

Education: B.S. at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Dissertation Title: Optical Coherence Tomography Ophthalmic Surgical Guidance Current Position: Post-Doc at Dr. Jerry Prince Lab, Johns Hopkins University

Yaning Wang, Ph.D. 2024

Dissertation Title: Optical coherence tomography based ophthalmic and gastrointestinal surgical guidance using deep learning,

Current Position: Post-Doc at ioIV Lab, Johns Hopkins University

Ruizhi Zuo, Ph.D. 2024

Education: B.S. at Nankai University

Dissertation Title: Deep learning-based 3D optical image reconstruction and surgical guidance,

Current Position: Post-Doc, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center