- [Award] (2024/03/08) I won the 3rd place in oral presentation at UIC Biomedical Engineering 6th Annual Research Symposium for our work on adaptive vessel tracing and segmentation for wall-to-lumen ratio abnormalities in 5xFAD mice.
- [Professional] (2024/02/25) Even more exciting news! I am overjoyed and honored to announce that I have won the area contest! This grants me the incredible opportunity to deliver my speech at the upcoming division contest!
- [Professional] (2024/02/12) Exciting News! I have the privilege of representing the UIC-COE Toastmasters Club at the area level competition, participating in the International Speech category!
- [Paper] (2024/02/09) Our work on Deep learning-based optical coherence tomography angiography image construction using spatial vascular connectivity network is now published in Nature Communications Engineering!
- [Professional] (2024/01/20) I officially volunteer as a mentor at America Needs You! I wish I didn’t have to do this again, but I’m too grateful to be silent. Grateful for the opportunity to mentor college students. Feels me with so much joy because in teaching others, we teach ourselves!
- [Presentation] (2024/01/28) I presented our work on adaptive vessel tracing and segmentation for wall-to-lumen ratio analysis at Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) conference in San Francisco!
- [Professional] (2024/01/12) I officially volunteer as a tutor at Tutoring Chicago! I wish I didn’t have to do this again, but I’m too grateful to be silent. Grateful for the opportunity to tutor kids, interact with them and help with their homework. Feels me with so much joy!!!
- [Blog] (2023/12/28) My interview with Xiaohui Zhang titled: A Visionary's Journey: Xiaohui Zhang on Bridging AI and Neuroimaging is out! Read here
- [Paper] (2023/12/01) Our work on Adaptive vessel tracing and segmentation in OCT enables the robust detection of wall-to-lumen ratio abnormalities in 5xFAD mice is now published in Biomedical Optics Express!
- [Blog] (2023/11/24) My book review titled The Third Door: The Mindset of Success by Alex Banayan is out!
- [Blog] (2023/11/24) My article titled The Toll of Genius in the Quest for Scientific Immortality is out. Read here
- [Paper] (2023/09/27) Our work on Intrinsic signal optoretinography revealing AD-induced retinal photoreceptor hyperexcitability before a detectable morphological abnormality is now published in Optics Letter!
- [Professional] (2023/08/24) I co-founded African Graduate Student Association at UIChicago!
- [Paper] (2023/07/15) Our work on Deep Learning for Artery-Vein Classification in Optical Coherence Tomography is now published in EBM!
- [Blog] (2023/07/04) My article titled The Compulsory Generosity is out! Read here
- [Professional] (2023/06/12) I officially joined UIC-COE Toastmasters as Vice President - Public Relations! I wish I didn’t have to do this but I’m too grateful to be silent! So grateful for the opportunity!
- [Blog] (2023/05/11) My article titled Surviving Manipulation: Lessons Learned, Moving Forward is out! Read here
- [Paper] (2023/03/01) Our work on Rotational Distortion and Compensation in Optical Coherence Tomography with Anisotropic Pixel Resolution is now published in MDPI!
- [Blog] (2023/02/18) My article titled The Pressure of Academic Success: Personal Reflections on Deception and the Pursuit of Perfection is out! Read here
- [Professional] (2022/10/28) Yay! I passed my preliminary examination. I am now a PhD candidate.
- [Blog] (2022/10/1) My Toastmaster speech transcript titled: Kindness never expires is out.
- [Blog] (2022/09/13) My interview with Taehoon and Trinh titled: On Finding Fulfillment in My PhD Journey, Regrets and Lessons Learnt is out!
- [Award] (2022/04/15) I won the 2nd place in oral presentation at UIC Biomedical Engineering 4th Annual Research Symposium for our work on artery-vein classification using OCT axial features.
- [Paper] (2022/04/08) Our work on ADC-Net: An Open-Source Deep Learning Network for Automated Dispersion Compensation in Optical Coherence Tomography is now published in Frontiers in Medicine!
- [Professional] (2022/03/11) I officially joined UIC-COE Toastmasters club!
- [Blog] (2022/02/15) My Toastmaster speech transcript titled: Who do you think you are is out.
- [Paper] (2022/02/01) Our work on artery-vein classification in OCT and OCTA using depth-resolved vascular profile is now published in Biomedical Optics Express!
- [Presentation] (2022/01/23) I presented our work on artery-vein classification using axial OCT features at Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) conference in San Francisco!
- [Professional] (2022/01/10) Unfortunately, because of the demands of being in my second year as a PhD student, I cannot continue in the BSJ team.
- [Blog] (2021/12/28) My post summarizing my first year PhD experience is out!
- [Blog] (2021/11/19) I revealed some of the effective feedback I use to make a presenter smile.
- [Blog] (2021/10/10) My post on understanding why maximum heat is felt around 3pm not 12pm is out!
- [Blog] (2021/10/04) I compiled my favorite images of retinal layers in OCT!
- [Blog] (2021/09/03) A quick post on the different regions of the macula. Check out those images!
- [Blog] (2021/07/1) My post on the different tissue engineering approaches is out!
- [Blog] (2021/07/1) I tried explaining markov chain to a five-year old.
- [Teaching] (2020/05/12) I will be TAing BME431 (Bioinstrumentation and Measurement Laboratory) this Spring!
- [Professional] (2021/04/12) I’ve joined the amazing Biomedical Engineering Student Journal team. Go BSJ!
- [Research] (2020/12/16) I’ll be joining UIC this Spring for grad school
