{"id":11,"date":"2017-08-29T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/dkang\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:41:44","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal investigator<\/h4>\n

Dongkyun “DK” Kang, PhD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PhD, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2006<\/span><\/div>\n
Co-Founder, Nano Scope Systems, 2006<\/span><\/div>\n
Research fellow, Harvard Medical School, 2007-9<\/span><\/div>\n
Instructor in Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, 2009-16<\/span><\/div>\n
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 2016-7<\/span><\/div>\n
Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2017-2023<\/span><\/div>\n
Associate Professor of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2023-Present<\/span><\/div>\n
Co-Leader, Cancer Imaging Program, University of Arizone Cancer Center, 2019-21<\/span><\/div>\n
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Students<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Kenneth Marcelino (PhD student, OSC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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Momoka Sugimura (PhD student, OSC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. University of Arizona, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paige Sawyers (PhD student, OSC, co-advised by Dr. Travis Sawyer)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. University of Arizona, 2021<\/p>\n

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Rafael Romero (PhD student, BME)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. University of Arizona, 2021<\/p>\n

M.S. University of Arizona, 2023<\/p>\n

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Yong Jun Kim (MS student, BME)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. South Dakota State University, 2019<\/p>\n

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Ameer Nessaee (MS student, ECE)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. University of Arizona, 2024<\/p>\n

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Carmella Ocaya (MS student, BME)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. University of Arizona, 2024<\/p>\n

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Michael Gnesda (MS student, OSC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.S. University of Arizona, 2024<\/p>\n

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Kayma Konecny (Undergraduate, OSC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jason Datta (Undergraduate, BME)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Adiba Haque (Undergraduate, BME)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tara Patel (Undergraduate, OSC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hana Diamond (Undergraduate, BME)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kian Ali Sadat (Undergraduate, ECE)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alumni<\/h4>\n

Dr. Wenbin Zhu (Postdoc fellow, 2019) – Last known position: Rivian<\/p>\n

Dr. Nachiket Kulkarni (PhD, 2021) – Last known position: KLA<\/p>\n

Dr. Jingwei Zhao (PhD, 2024) – Last known position: Apple<\/p>\n

Christopher Nguyen (MS, 2019) – Last known position: Tufts<\/p>\n

Cheng Gong (MS, 2020) – Last known position: Columbia<\/p>\n

Raphael Osifeso (MS, 2020)<\/p>\n

Patrick O’Neal (MS, 2021) – Last known position: EyeQue<\/p>\n

Andrew Masciola (BS, 2021) – Last known position: University of Arizona<\/p>\n

Hasina Shir (Keys high-school summer intern, 2018)\u00a0– Last known position: University of Arizona<\/p>\n

Katie Canedo (Keys high-school summer intern, 2019)<\/p>\n

Becky Han (Keys high-school summer intern, 2020)<\/p>\n

Shivam Kedia (Keys high-school summer intern, 2021)<\/p>\n

Shirley Xiang (Keys high-school summer intern, 2022) – Last known position: UCLA<\/p>\n

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Collaborators<\/h4>\n

Eric J. Yang, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department of Pathology, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)<\/p>\n

Clara Curiel, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department of Dermatology, University of Arizona<\/p>\n

Jaya Chidambaram, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Manchester (UK)<\/p>\n

Esther E. Freeman, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)<\/p>\n

Aggrey S. Semeere, MB, chB<\/strong><\/p>\n

Infectious Diseases Institute (Uganda)<\/p>\n

Jeffery N. Martin, MD, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)<\/p>\n

Milind Rajadhyaksha, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)<\/p>\n

Guillermo J. Tearney, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wellman Center for Photomedicine,\u00a0Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)<\/p>\n

Salvador Gonz\u00e1lez, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Alcal\u00e1 University and Ramon y Cajal Hospital (Spain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal investigator Dongkyun “DK” Kang, PhD\u00a0 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}