Lab News & Updates
Lab News & Updates
38. [August 26, 2025] An abstract for our collaborative work with Dr. Muna Aryal has been accepted for a Late-Breaking poster presentation in the 2025 BMES Annual meeting happening from Oct. 8-12, 2025, in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Dr. Aryal, Abhijith, and Shahin!
37. [August 18, 2025] As the Fall semester starts, we would like to welcome 3 incoming PhD students to our Lab. Warm welcome to Sayed Oli, Udoy Torza, and Osagie Okhuegbe to the lab. Also, congratulations on your start of PhD journey at NCA&T!
36. [July 21, 2025] Dr. Gaire has been awarded $1.18 million NSF HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) grant for his research proposal submitted to NSF. Backman Laboratory at Northwestern University is the collaborator for this proposal. Congratulations to Gaire Laboratory and Backman Laboratory for this award! Here is the link of Award Abstract!
35. [June 1, 2025] Chance Hurd started his two-month internship funded by our collaborative project at NC State.
34. [May 9, 2025] Congratulations, Ibukun Adeniji. He graduated with his MS degree in spring 2025.
33. [May 7, 2025] Congratulations, Ibukun Adeniji, for successfully defending his MS project today. Ibukun is the first project-supervised graduate student from the Gaire Lab!
32. [March 25, 2025] Congratulations, Md. Shahin Alom, for successfully defending his MS Thesis today. Shahin is the first research-supervised graduate student from Gaire Lab! He will continue his PhD.
31. [March 21, 2025] Welcome, Chance Hurd, to the lab. He joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher! He will work on the USNRC-funded project.
30. [March 21, 2025] Two posters from our lab were presented at COE Bala Ram 14th Annual Graduate poster presentation event. Thank you, Shahin and Ibukun, for your participation!
29. [March 20, 2025] Our new SPIE conference proceeding paper titled "Automatic Nuclei Segmentation of Label-free Chromatin-sensitive Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy using Convolution Neural Network with Transformer" is now published in the SPIE Digital Library. Link here. Congratulations Shahin and all co-authors!
28. [Feb 27, 2025], We are in the news of NCAT, https://www.ncat.edu/news/2025/02/2025-provost-faculty-fellows.php, as a receptionist of 2025 seed grant funding awardee through the Provost’s Faculty Fellows for our project, "Artificial Intelligence-Driven Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Enhancing Glymphatic Clearance in Alzheimer's Treatment"!
27. [Feb 17, 2025] Two super-resolution microscopy images are displayed from the Gaire lab at the S.T.E. Art Showcase organized by N.C. A&T College of Engineering on the occasion of 2025 Engineers Week from Feb 17 to Feb 19. These images are from our two recent publications.
26. [Jan 24-28, 2025] PhD Student, Shahin Alom, presented his research at the SPIE Photonics West 2025 - BIOS conference (Jan 26-2025) held in San Francisco, California! Congratulations Shahin! Here is the link for the abstract.
25. [Jan, 2025] Congratulations, Dr. Muna Aryal, for receiving the NCAT 2025 Provost Seed Fellow grant to support her preliminary research during the summer. Dr. Gaire is Co-PI on this seed grant.
24. [Jan, 2025] Congratulations Md. Shahin Alom, who received a partial travel fund award from the SPIE Student Conference Support program for his conference (SPIE Photonics West 2025) travel in Jan 2025.
23. [Dec, 2024] Congratulations, Ebenezer Owusu-Kusi, who graduated with an M.S. in Electrical Engineering degree in Fall 2024.
22. Our new article titled, "Deep Learning-driven Automatic Nuclei Segmentation of Live Cell Chromatin-sensitive Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy Imaging," is now published in Optics Express journal. Md. Shahin is the first author of this paper. Congrats Shahin and all co-authors! This is a collaborative work with Prof. Vadim Backman at Northwestern University.
21. Congratulations, Dr. Kevin Han of NC State University, whose proposal is awarded for funding by USNRC (in June 2024). Dr. Gaire is subaward Co-PI on this proposal!
20. NERVE center at NCAT is formally announced in the NIH NIBIB. NIBIB initiative expands the biomedical engineering, imaging, and technology acceleration aspirations of HBCUs (Nov. 4, 2024).
19.Our new journal paper has been accepted in Optics Express Journal! Will be updated here soon! (Oct. 31, 2024).
18. Dr. Gaire presented his research findings in 2024 Provost Seed Fellows Virtual Campus Presentations at NCAT (Oct 25, 2024).
17. Our new research on deep learning-based nuclei segmentation is accepted for presentation at the SPIE Photonics West 2025 - BIOS conference. Congratulations, Shahin and all other co-authors! This is a collaborative work with the Backman Laboratory at Northwestern University! Here is the link for the abstract.
16. The NIH/NIBIB awarded the funding for phase 1 for the establishment of the "Neurovascular Engineering Research Center (NERVE)" at NCAT. Prof. Yeoheung Yun from the Chemical, Biological, and BioEngineering Department is the lead, and Dr. Gaire is also part of it. Congratulations to the team!
15. Dr. Gaire attended the "Super Resolution Summit" held at Chapel Hill NC (Sept. 12, 2024). It was an amazing event with an opportunity to meet the experts in the field.
14. Dr. Gaire attended and presented 90-second elevator pitch of his summer research at the 2024 Provost Fellows Seed Luncheon (Aug. 29 2024).
13. Our new result in collaboration with Backman Laboratory of Northwestern University, "Deep Learning-driven Automatic Nuclei Segmentation of Label-free Live Cell Chromatin-sensitive Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy Imaging," is now available as preprint in bioRxiv. Md. Shahin is the first author of this preprint. Congrats Shahin!
12. Our publication is featured on the cover of the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) Vol. 29/ No. 06. Click the link to see the featured cover.
11. Our new research paper, "Deep learning-based spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopy," is now published in the SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics. Click the link to get full access to the Open Access article.
10. Welcome Ibukun Adeniji, who joined the lab in the Summer of 2024. Also, congratulations on getting the summer internship position.
9. Congratulations, Ebenezer, for getting the Summer Internship position at Cadenced Design System Inc.!
8. Two posters featuring our ongoing research were presented at the 2024 Symposium on Physical Genomics, Friday, April 26, 2024. Congrats, Shahin, who is the first author of one poster!
7. Dr. Gaire received NC A&T State University's 2024 Provost Summer Seed Funding to support his preliminary research.
6. Md. Shahin presented his research poster in the 13th annual College of Engineering Graduate Research Poster Competition. Congrats, Shahin!
5. Dr. Gaire presented "AI Techniques for Biomedical Imaging" as an invited seminar Presenter at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University, November 2023.
4. Welcome Md. Shahin Alam to the lab! Shahin joined the lab in Fall 2023.
3. Dr. Gaire presented as an invited seminar presenter at the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Bioengineering Department at NCAT, Oct. 2023.
2. Dr. Gaire Presented his paper "Simultaneous Multicolor Spectroscopic Single-molecule Localization Microscopy Image Reconstruction using Machine Learning" in Optica Imaging Congress, August 2023. Link for the abstract.
1. Dr. Gaire joined North Carolina A&T State University in the Fall of 2022.