Announcements

A recent article jointly from Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab and Margarida Barroso's group at Albany Medical College was promoted to the cover of the journal Biophysical Reports. The title of the article is "In vivo quantitative FRET small animal imaging: Intensity versus lifetime-based FRET" and the authors are Jason T. Smith, Nattawut Sinsuebphon, Alena Rudkouskaya, Xavier Michalet, Xavier Intes, Margarida Barroso. 

The department congratulates the graduates of the class of 2023 who received their degrees during commencement on Saturday, May 20. We were pleased to honor the graduates at the departmental graduation luncheon on Friday, May 19.

Madison Stiefbold, a graduate student in Dr. Leo Wan's Lab for Tissue Engineering and Morphogenesis, was selected for the Research Poster Presentation Award at the 2023 Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC). Her work is titled, "3D Helical Cell Sheets for Modeling Cardiac C-Looping."

David Corr, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). David was selected for his innovative and transformative contributions to the study of skeletal muscle mechanics, musculoskeletal soft tissue engineering, and laser-based biofabrication. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Chair of Tissue and Cellular Engineering (TCE) Technical Committee of the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference. 

Mengzhou Li, a PhD candidate in Dr. Ge Wang's AI-based X-ray Imaging System lab, was selected for the highly competitive SPIE CT Conference Best Paper Award. His work is titled, "Motion correction for robot-based x-ray photon-counting CT at ultrahigh resolution."

Xinrui Song, a doctoral student in Dr. Pingkun Yan's Deep Imaging Analytics Lab, was selected as the Cum Laude poster winner for the Image Processing conference at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference for his paper, "Distance map supervised landmark localization for MR-TRUS registration." This student paper award is a prize awarded to the first authors of high-quality papers within the Image Processing conference. 

Xavier Intes and Margarida Barroso have been selected for funding of a new NCI R01 grant focusing on "AI enhanced lifetime-based mesoscopic in vivo imaging of tissue molecular heterogeneity". This is a 5-year grant with a budget of $3.9M and it is a joint effort between RPI, where Xavier is the PD and AMC, where Margarida serves as PI. 

Jenny Ferina, a doctoral student in Juergen Hahn's lab, and Jiajin Zhang, a doctoral student in Pingkun Yan's lab, have both received the Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering.

The School of Engineering at RPI awards four Belsky awards each year to graduate students with a strong academic record and outstanding contributions to computer science engineering.