News 

5/6/2024 : Congrats! Linh, Zahra and Katie's abstracts accepted for IEEE EMBC 2024 

4/18/2024 : We have been selected as an recipient of the 2024 KSU Diversity Research Grant!

4/10/2024 : Katie  presented her work at the 2024 National Conference Undergraduate Research 

1/17/2024 : Our R15 grant story has been featured at the KSU website , local media , and The Conversation

1/9/2024 : Michael joined the lab. Welcome, Michael! 

12/13/2023 : Two journal papers are published in Biomedical Optics Express and Journal of Biomedical Optics 

10/14/2023 : Katie presented her work at the 2023 BMES 

9/21/2023 : We have been awarded the NIH NIBIB R15 grant! So excited about this project! 

9/1/2023 : Lance, Artha and Tiger joined the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome aboard! 

8/31/2023 :  Congrats, Katie for your URCA award to support your presentation at the BMES 2023

8/14/2023: Zahra Rostampour Fathi joined the lab as our new PhD student. Welcome Zahra! 

7/24//2023: A new journal article published in Frontiers in Endocrinology

6/15/2023 : Dr. Lee was invited to present our research in multiple institutions in South Korea including Seoul National University (SNU), SNU Hospital, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institutes, Noul Inc., 

4/26/2023 : Mark and Alex have presented in the IEEE ORSS at Georgia Tech

4/20/2023  : Our team has presented multiple posters at the KSU Research Symposium 

4/7/2023 : Congratulations, Katie for your SURP (Summer Undergraduate Research Program) award! 

4/1/2023 : Two journal papers are published! One is in Neurophotonics and the other one is in Frontier in Neurology

2/6/2023 : Katie Cho has joined our lab! Wecome aboard, Katie! 

1/9/2023 : Mark Romine and Alex Moazzen have joined the lab! Welcome!  

12/21/2022 : Dr. Lee gave an invited talk at the 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT, IoT and AI (HONET)

10/20/2022 : NIH Subaward (NIH SBIR Phase II) has been received through Optosurgical LLC! 

10/14/2022: Jacob and Connor have successfully presented their posters at the BMES 2022. Great Job, both! 

10/5/2022 : Jaden Causey and Saba Mabood have been selected as 2022/2023 First-Year Scholars working in our lab. Congratulations and welcome aboard, both! 

9/16/2022 : Congratulations!! Jacob and Connor have received the URCA (Undergraduate Research Creative Activities) fund to support their travel to the BMES 2022 in San Antonio. 

8/23/2022 : Two abstracts have been accepted for the undergraduate poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society. Congratulations, Jacob and Connor! 

8/15/2022 : Andrew Boateng joined the lab through directed study. Welcome, Andrew!

8/1/2022 : Linh Luong joined the lab as our 1st PhD student! Welcome aboard, Linh! 

7/1/2022 : New paper on Sickle Cell Disease has been published in Frontiers in Neurology! Quantifying  the cerebral hemometabolic response to blood transfusion in pediatric sickle cell disease with diffuse optical spectroscopies. 

6/16/2022 : Dr. Lee visited Stratio Inc., a silicone valley start-up company that commercialize a hand-held spectrometer and a low-cost, portable SWIR (short-wavelength infrared) imager.  

5/18/2022 : Connor Berger (ECE senior undergraduate) joined the lab as a summer research student. Welcome Connor! 

4/27/2022 : Jacob Womack (ECE senior undergraduate) has been awarded KSU Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship . Congrats and Welcome Jacob!

4/26/2022 : Dr. Lee has presided the session titled "Optics and Brain Methods" at the Optica Biophotonics Congress 2022

3/27/2022 : New paper came out!  A co-axial excitation, dual-RGB/NIR paired imaging system toward computer-aided detection (CAD) of parathyroid glands in situ and ex vivo 

12/3/2021 : Dr. Lee gave a talk at the research webinar series hosted by Society of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 

11/11/2021 : Dr. Lee gave an invited talk titled "Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy for Clinical Diagnostics " at a joint conference IBEC2021 and ICBHI2021

10/01/2021 : Andres Victoria and Bruno Lescano (Both are ECE 1st year undergraduate) joined the lab through the KSU First Year Scholar Program.  

9/4/2021 : A paper titled "A pilot feasibility study to assess vascularity and perfusion of parathyroid glands using a portable hand-held imager" has been published. 

8/19/2021 : Dr. Lee joined the KSU ECE department as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering