Research Personnel (Research Associates and Post-Doctoral Fellows)

Damber Thapa

Research Associate

Project: Advancement in optical, photothermal and photoacoustic science, with applications spanning biological imaging, pre-clinical and clinical research, non-destructive testing (NDT), and quality assessments.

XinXin Guo

Project: Photothermal device for blood glucose and blood alcohol monitoring; Industrial steels case depth hardness photothermal radiometric insrtumentation; Industry liaison

Alexander Melnikov

Projects: Development of Lock-in Carrieography and PhotoCarrier Radiometry for semiconductor materials and structures; Photovoltaic Solar-Cell non-destructive evaluation; Industrial non-destructive testing and imaging; Industry liaison; Steel hardness depth profilometry

Koneswaran Sivagurunathan

Senior Research Associate

Graduate Students

Rudolf Alfred Alvi

Project: Biomedical imaging of cancerous animal tissues using a photoacoustic radar phase array imager

Sean Choi

PhD student

Edem Dovlo

PhD student

Lilei Hu

PhD Graduate

Huiting Huan

Visiting Ph.D. student

Jungho Kim

Project: Research on photothermal radiometry and luminescence monitoring of dental enamel-filler interfaces

Simon Liang

M. Eng. student

Lixian Liu

Visiting Ph.D. student

Di Zhang

M.A. Sc. student

Khashayar Shojaei-Asanjan

M.A.Sc student

Peng Song

Visiting PhD student

Akshit Soral

M.Eng. student

Nima Tabatabaei

Project: Thermal-wave radar and lock-in infrared camera imaging for non-destructive evaluation

Wei Wang

Project: Photothermoacoustic imaging

Past Members

Bahman Lashkari

Project: Research and development of analytical instrumentation and techniques for photoacoustic diagnosis of early osteoporotic bone loss and density variations

Qiming Sun

Project: Non-destructive optoelectronic imaging

Alireza Jangjoo

Visiting PhD student

Raymond Jeon

Project: Dental Biothermophotonics

Sreekumar Kaiplavil

Project: Research and development of analytical instrumentation and techniques for photothermal diagnosis of early osteoporotic bone loss and density variations

Sahar Kooshki