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Current Team
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Kevan Bell, PhD.
Past: University of Alberta Kevan Bell joined the PhotoMedicine Labs as a post-doctoral fellow after completing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alberta. He had previously moved to the Waterloo Region in 2018 to work in the lab’s spin-off company, illumiSonics Inc., serving as Engineering Director while completing his thesis work. Kevan has played a pivotal role in the development of photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS™) microscopy and has contributed to the majority of currently published academic investigations on the topic. During his graduate career, Kevan was the recipient of both NSERC’s Post-Graduate Scholarship and Alberta Innovate’s Graduate Student Scholarship, as well as several institutional awards. Kevan brings a wide background and interests in optical physics, biophotonics, optical engineering, software development, simulation, and project management. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Vanilla Bean |
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Shahid Haider, PhD.
Past: University of Waterloo Shahid is a post-doctoral research fellow in the PhotoMedicine Labs. He has 4 years of experience designing and building multispectral and polarimetric optical systems for non-destructive testing purposes. His current research interests include the probing of biological morphology using polarised light, optically probing temperatures, and building endoscopic imaging systems. He has a background in building computational polarimetric systems for portable ORD and CD measurements to analyze chemicals and has a background in image processing, building algorithms for lung cancer segmentation and image saliency analysis. He received his M.A.Sc. and PhD from the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab at UW supervised by Prof. Alexander Wong & Prof. David Clausi Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Caramel Cone Explosion from Haagen-Dazs. |
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Zohreh Hosseinaee
Awards: MITACS Accelerate Fellowship, Norman Edmund Award, Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women in Engineering. After completing her B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, Zohreh received her M.Sc. in photonics engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran. She started her Ph.D. in the Systems Design Engineering department at UW in 2016. She has worked in the field of Biphotonic and optical imaging, especially optical coherence tomography (OCT). Her current research interest includes multi-modal optical imaging and image processing. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Swiss Chocolate |
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Marian Boktor
co-supervised by Dr. Paul Fieguth Marian completed both her undergraduate and master's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. She joined the PhotoMedicine Labs in January 2020 as a Ph.D student, and is being co-supervised by Dr. Parsin Haji Reza and Prof. Paul Fieguth. Her research interests include biological signal/data processing and analysis, data acquisition methods, image processing, computer vision, and machine learning techniques. Marian is a highly motivated researcher who believes knowledge is power - Loves traveling and helping people to survive. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Stretchy Middle Eastern Ice-Cream or Blueberry Fro-Yo |
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Saad Rasheed Abbasi
Past: University of Leicester Awards: MITACS accelerate fellowship, Int'l Masters Student Award, UW Grad Scholarship. Saad is a second year M.A.Sc student working in the PhotoMedicince Labs. He has a background in Electrical Engineering, where he did his undergrad program at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. His research interests include image reconstruction, data acquisition methods, image processing and label-free histology-like imaging. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Vanilla Bean |
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Nicholas Pellegrino
Past: University of Waterloo Awards: Engineering Dean's Entrance Award co-supervised by Dr. Paul Fieguth Nicholas graduated from Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo and joined the PhotoMedicine labs in May 2019 as a masters student. Co-supervised by Dr. Haji Reza and Prof. Fieguth, his main focus is on multi-spectral unmixing, working towards chromophore-selective PARS imaging with applications in PARS™ histology. Email: nicholas.pellegrino@uwaterloo.ca Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Chocolate |
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Layla Khalili
Past: Mayo Clinic Awards: MITACS accelerate fellowship Layla graduated from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse with a B.Sc. in Biomedical Physics and minor in Biology. After graduating, she worked for about a year at the Mayo Clinic in the Neurology department. Currently, she is pursuing her M.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering, and is working on an Ophthalmology project and IGF (Image Guided Fibre) project. She has always had a passion in Neurology/Neuroscience with the hopes of steering towards functional PARS imaging of the brain in the future. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Ben and Jerry's Non-Dairy Chunky Monkey or Mint |
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Jasmine Chan
Past: National University of Singapore Awards: Int'l Masters Student Award, UW Grad Scholarship. co-supervised by Dr. John Yeow Jasmine previously graduated from the National University of Singapore with a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. Earlier this year, January 2019, she joined the PhotoMedicine Lab and is being co-supervised by Prof. John Yeow. Her main focus of her project is on using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (CMUTs) for photoacoustic imaging. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Mint |
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Benjamin Ecclestone
Past: University of Guelph Awards: Dean's Scholarship Ben completed his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Guelph. Following this, he will be joining the PhotoMedicine Labs in May 2020 as a M.A.Sc student under Prof. Parsin Haji Reza. His research interests include optical systems, data processing methods, image reconstruction techniques and the development of histological imaging techniques. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Vanilla Bean from Haagen-Dazs |
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Lyazzat Mukhangaliyeva
Past: University of Waterloo co-supervised by Dr. Eihab Abdel-Rahman Lyazzat graduated from the University of Waterloo with bachelor’s degree in Nanotechnology Engineering in 2015. She then joined PhotoMedicine Lab's as a volunteer in January 2020. Lyazzat will be starting her MASc in Systems Design Engineering Department in Fall 2020 co-supervised by Dr. Parsin Haji Reza and Prof. Eihab Abdel-Rahman. Her main research interest is in manipulating the optical wavefront using adaptive optics in order to correct for system misalignment, aberrations and other factors reducing the performance of PARS. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Swiss Chocolate with Walnuts & Strawberries from Marble Slab |
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Alkris Warren
Past: Wilfred Laurier University Kris received is B.SC. in Photonics from WLU. After undergrad he worked in industry, first at Christie Digital assembling and testing optical components for use in projection display systems, then moved onto 2G Robotics, where he worked as a calibration and testing specialist. He was heavily involved in the development of systems that utilized opto-electronics principles, computer vision and date processing and analysis. His research interests primarily revolve around the field of optical product design and development. More specifically, he has a strong inclination towards the design, modelling and analysis of optical systems. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Ben and Jerry's Half Baked Cookie Dough |
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Alex Tummon Simmons
Awards: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Alex is a Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Waterloo (Class of 2021) and is in the process of completing an 8-month co-op term with the PhotoMedicine Labs. He has significant prior research experience in other fields including focused ultrasound and materials testing. His current research focus is around the design and implementation of novel functional imaging devices. Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Gooey Mooey from Cows PEI |
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Amanda Hope
Undergraduate Research Assistant Maggie Zhang Undergraduate Research Assistant Sheen Thusoo Undergraduate Research Assistant Karam Danial Undergraduate Research Assistant Martin Le Research Assistant, Co-op Student URI award Serene Abu-Sardanah Undergraduate Research Assistant President's award Chandu Subramaniam Undergraduate Research Assistant URA award James Tweel Undergraduate Research Assistant URA award Daniel Javaheri_Zadeh Undergraduate Research Assistant President's award |
Moujan Saderi
Undergraduate Research Assistant URA award Auguste Koh Undergraduate Research Assistant URA award John Quinto Undergraduate Research Assistant President's award Mikaela MacMahon Undergraduate Research Assistant President's award Aysegul Alpay Co-op Student URI award Natasha Willis Undergraduate Research Assistant President's award Yun Kim Undergraduate Research Assistant President's award Bazil Lorenzo Sonier Co-op Student Cassandra Maxwell Undergraduate Research Assistant URA award Amir Mohammad Farzaneh Ranked second in Iran National Exam ( more than 500,000 participants) |