Announcements

Navid Nizam, doctoral candidate in Dr. Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab, and Xinrui Song, doctoral candidate in Dr. Pingkun Yan's Deep Imaging Analytics Lab, have both received the 2025 Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering.

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

Amogh Shetty, an RPI senior doing research in Dr. Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab, has been awarded the Jo Anne and David Kelch '60 Undergraduate Research Award for his project, "Deep Learning-Based Data Fusion for Super-Resolution Time-Resolved Fluorescence Image Generation and Fluorescence Lifetime Parameter Estimation."

President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. Among them is BMED's Professor Elizabeth Blaber.

Juergen Hahn was recently quoted in an article by the New York Times on the rise of autism diagnoses and what might potentially be underlying this increase in the numbers: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/health/what-causes-autism.html

Condell Eastmond, doctoral student in Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Laboratory, has been awarded an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, funded by NIBIB. The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research. 

Professor Ge Wang has been appointed the Editor in Chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. This is the premier journal in medical imaging and AI and Ge's appointment as Editor in Chief highlights his standing in the field. 

See the IEEE press release here: https://www.ieeetmi.org/new-eic 

A recent article from Ryan Gilbert's research lab was promoted to the cover of the journal Advanced Biology. The title of the article is "Delivery of TGFβ3 from Magnetically Responsive Coaxial Fibers Reduces Spinal Cord Astrocyte Reactivity In Vitro" and the authors are Jessica L. Funnell, Jasper Fougere, Diana Zahn, Silvio Dutz, and Ryan J. Gilbert. 

Professor Xavier Intes' proposal, "Optimization of Hardware-based Neural Network Accelerators for Fluorescence Lifetime in Biomedical Applications" has been selected as a Future of Computing Research Collaboration project, a partnership between RPI and IBM. This research program is focused on developing AI-powered hardware accelerators for fluorescence LIDAR, utilizing a quantum camera. The integrated intelligent camera system is expected to significantly advance real-time guidance for tumor resection procedures.