People

Principal investigator

Dongkyun “DK” Kang, PhD 

PhD, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2006
Co-Founder, Nano Scope Systems, 2006
Research fellow, Harvard Medical School, 2007-9
Instructor in Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, 2009-16
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 2016-7
Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2017-2023
Associate Professor of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2023-Present
Co-Leader, Cancer Imaging Program, University of Arizone Cancer Center, 2019-21
Program committee member, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, OSA and SPIE, 2018-Present
Technical program committee member, Subcommittee for Biophotonics, IEEE Photonics Conference, 2018-21
Program committee member, Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics (MHA) conference, OSA Biophotonics Congress, 2019
Program committee member, Endomicroscopy conference, SPIE Photonics West, 2019-Present
Technical Review committee member, IEEE-NIH Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies conference, 2019
Editorial Board Member, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2016-21

Students

Jingwei Zhao (PhD candidate, OSC)

B.S. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2018

Kenneth Marcelino (PhD student, OSC)

B.S. Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2021

Momoka Sugimura (PhD student, OSC)

B.S. University of Arizona, 2020

Paige Sawyers (PhD student, OSC, co-advised by Dr. Travis Sawyer)

B.S. University of Arizona, 2021

Rafael Romero (PhD student, BME)

B.S. University of Arizona, 2021

Yong Jun Kim (MS student, BME)

B.S. South Dakota State University, 2019

Kayma Konecny (Undergraduate, OSC)

Alia May Nichols (Undergraduate, OSC)

Alumni

Dr. Wenbin Zhu (Postdoc fellow, 2019) – Last known position: Rivian

Dr. Nachiket Kulkarni (PhD, 2021) – Last known position: KLA

Christopher Nguyen (MS, 2019) – Last known position: Tufts

Cheng Gong (MS, 2020) – Last known position: Columbia

Raphael Osifeso (MS, 2020)

Patrick O’Neal (MS, 2021) – Last known position: EyeQue

Andrew Masciola (BS, 2021) – Last known position: University of Arizona

Hasina Shir (Keys high-school summer intern, 2018) – Last known position: University of Arizona

Katie Canedo (Keys high-school summer intern, 2019)

Becky Han (Keys high-school summer intern, 2020)

Shivam Kedia (Keys high-school summer intern, 2021)

Collaborators

Esther E. Freeman, MD, PhD

Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)

Aggrey S. Semeere, MB, chB

Infectious Diseases Institute (Uganda)

Jeffery N. Martin, MD, MPH

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

Milind Rajadhyaksha, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)

Guillermo J. Tearney, MD, PhD

Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)

Salvador González, MD

Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Alcalá University and Ramon y Cajal Hospital (Spain)