03/19/24  Wenhao successfully defended his thesis. Congrats to Dr. Liu!

03/11/24  Shu received the 2024 GT Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper award. Congrats!

01/28/24  Shu gave a keynote presentation on 2024 SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, CA. 

11/10/23  Congratulations, Dr. Hua!

10/18/23  Both Zhi and Zijun received the Emil Wolf Best Paper Awards from Frontiers in Optics. 15 years after Shu's award back in 2008. Congrats!

09/08/23  Yan (GT/Emory), Van (MSU), and Peng (HKU) join the lab for PhD study. Welcome!

08/15/23  Dingding Han from Purdue University joins the lab as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome!

08/04/23  Dylan successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats, Dr. Son!

06/26/23  Emory MD/Ph.D. student Srinidhi Bharadwaj joined the lab for her summer research rotation. Welcome!

05/25/23  Corey and the team secured the IEN seed grant. Congrats!

04/15/23  Eric Tianrui Qi joined the lab for UG research. Welcome!

03/31/23  Congrats to the team on a new grant awarded by NICHD!

03/10/23  Congrats to Yan on being officially admitted to pursue his doctoral study with Coulter BME!  

03/10/23  Congrats to Shu on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!   

02/01/23  We are delighted to receive the inaugural Best Paper Prize awarded by Biomedical Optics Express (link). Congrats! 

02/01/23  Shunan arrived in Atlanta from PKU to conduct his joint doctoral research at GT/Emory. Welcome! 

11/22/22  We were awarded a 3-year NSF grant. Congrats!

09/06/22  Zijun joins the lab for doctoral study. Welcome!

08/16/22  Zhi, Tofunmi, and Ruth joined the lab. Welcome!

08/01/22  Our lab received new 5-year funding from NIH. Congrats!

06/01/22  Amy Wang from MSE joins the lab for UG research. Welcome! 

04/04/22  Corey has been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! 

03/18/22  Biagio will join the Faculty of Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid. Congratulations, Professor Mandracchia!  

03/01/22  Undergraduate students Blake Cragen and Rachel Lee joined the lab for UG research. Welcome!

01/26/22  Shu was awarded the NSF CAREER Award. Thank you, team!

12/20/21  The lab was awarded the 2022 Marvin H. and Nita S. Floyd Research Fund Award.  

10/07/21  Undergraduate students Yan Huang and Kyle Xu joined the lab for UG research. Welcome!

09/10/21  Graduate students Kidan, Keyi, and Corey joined the lab. Welcome! 

07/30/21  Matt Fritton earned second prize for his SURE research presentation. 

06/07/21  Our collaborative project with Prof. Alberto Stolfi has been selected for funding by the Petit Institute Seed Grant. 

06/01/21  Matt Fritton from Rockhurst University joined the lab for summer research through GT's SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Sciences) program.  

04/29/21  Fourier light-field microscopy for live-cell imaging is published in Optica. Congrats to Xuanwen and Wenhao.

04/20/21  Shu has successfully completed the 2021 Woodruff Academic Leadership Fellow Program. Thanks to collaborator Prof. W. Hong Yeo. 

04/15/21  UG Suraj received the offer to join the Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program of Cornell, Rockefeller, and Sloan-Kettering in NYC.

04/01/21  Kidan Tadesse from the University of Arkansas joins the lab. Welcome Kidan!

02/26/21  Postdoctoral Fellow Abhijit Marar joins the lab. Welcome Abhijit!

02/15/21  UG Suraj Rajendran Wins CarMax Analytics Showcase.

01/07/21  BME UG Qingyu Chen joins the lab. Welcome!

06/17/20  Airy-beam tomography work accepted for publication in Optica. 

03/12/20  Light-field endoscopy paper published in Applied Physics Letters.

01/07/20  Stella Yang of BME joins the lab. Welcome! 

01/03/20  Camera physics paper published in Nature Communications.

10/30/19  Andrew and Suraj received 2020 PURA award (President’s Undergraduate Research Award). 

10/30/19  Jacqueline defended her Petit Scholar poster. 

09/16/19  Master student Lipi Shah from BioEngineering and Computer Science joins the lab.

09/06/19  Haoyu Xu from PKU BME joined the lab for short-term research. Welcome! (photos)

08/08/19  Changliang and Wenhao's paper on Fourier light-field microscopy is accepted for publication in Optics Express.

07/15/19  Rui Min visits the lab from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Xi'An Jiaotong University. 

06/17/19  Shu is a Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow 2019-2020.

05/28/19  Dylan's paper accepted for publication in Optics Express.

04/26/19  Shu presented on the 2019 Winship Cancer Biology Retreat. 

04/09/19  Tara received NSF Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!

03/15/19  Shu presented our latest projects on the Emory BME Seminar. 

02/12/19  Shu presented the lab's research at the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).

01/17/19  7 papers accepted for presentation on the OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences, Apr. 14-17, 2019, in Tuscon, AZ. 

01/16/19  Xuanwen is selected as the 2019 Petit Scholar Mentor. Jacqueline joins the lab with Petit Scholarship. Congratulations! 

12/10/18  Visiting student Jose Casado Garrido from Spain joined the lab. Welcome! 

12/05/18  Two papers have been accepted for publication in Biomedical Optics Express.  

10/26/18  Seasons to remember. Lab photo

10/22/18  Lab renovation gets started (finally but gratefully). Stay tuned. 

10/17/18  Congratulations to former mentor Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang for receiving 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (link).

09/01/18  BME graduate student Tara Urner joins the lab. Welcome!

08/15/18  Jia lab officially started at Georgia Tech and Emory University. 

08/02/18  Our team (w/ GWU and MGH) was awarded a $2M, 4-Yr NSF EFRI award.

06/29/18  Milan won Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) Grant Award at Weill Cornell.

04/12/18  Bryce successfully defended his PhD thesis and will continue his training for MD. Congratulations Dr. Schroeder! Lab photo

04/02/18  Dr. Biagio Mandracchia joins the Jia Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 

02/26/18  Rotation BME student Andrew Chen and visiting scholar Bin Yu (Shenzhen Univ.) join the lab. Welcome! 

11/28/17  Postdoc Haoyu Li joins the faculty of Harbin Institute of Technology as Associate Professor.

10/26/17  Surprise B-Day party for Shu. Thanks everyone - this is a blessing!

10/16/17  Bryce won Best Oral Presentation on the MSTP (MD/PhD program) annual retreat.

09/22/17  Shu received Dean's Award for Research Leadership. 

09/20/17  Bryce, Haoyu and Shu presented on OSA's Frontiers in Optics in Washington DC. Shu also gave a panel speech. 

09/19/17  Collaborative work on image inpainting for super-resolution microscopy has been accepted for publication in Optica.

08/30/17  Shu presented in DC on DARPA YFA's annual meeting.

08/28/17  BME first-year graduate student Yan Gao joins lab for his rotation research.

08/22/17  Bryce, Xuanwen, Dylan presented on the BME Research Day. Bryce won best oral presentation award.

08/19/17  Lab BBQ in Shu's backyard to celebrate our third summer in Long Island. 

07/18/17  The Jia lab has been awarded Maximizing Investigators' Resource Award (MIRA) by the National Institutes of Health.

07/07/17  Sravan's paper has been accepted for publication in Optics Communications. Undergraduate first author!

06/27/17  Bryce presented on OSA's Imaging and Applied Optics Conference in San Francisco, CA.

05/24/17  Bryce' paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Photonics.

05/12/17  Wenhao received his Master of Physics and will pursue a PhD in BME. 

04/27/17  Bryce passed the Proposal Exam, congratulations!

01/28/17  Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Millennium Diner. & Nikita Yadunath joins the lab for her Master rotation research.

12/02/16  Haoyu, Changliang, Bryce's paper has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.

11/25/16  Thanksgiving lunch at Cheesecake Factory.

11/07/16  Dr. Changliang Guo from Prof. John Sheridan's lab at University College Dublin joined the lab as a postdoc researcher. Welcome!

10/18/16  Shu joined YFA Class of 2016 at the DARPA YFA program meeting in DC. 

10/12/16  Sravan and Milan attended the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Sravan's paper was selected for a Poster Presentation.

09/13/16  Shu received DARPA's Young Faculty Award.

08/23/16  Congratulations to Bryce, Sravan and Zhen on winning the Best Poster Presentation Award on the BME Research Day, for the second year in a row!

08/10/16  Xuanwen Hua, Dylan Son, Wenhao Liu joined the lab. Welcome!

06/10/16  Our lab received a grant support from the NSF Biophotonics Program.

05/19/16  Andy and Helena joined the lab. A semester-ending lab meeting was held (Bryce, Haoyu, Sravan, Matt presented their projects). Lab lunch at Hoshi Sushi.