People

Néstor Uribe-Patarroyo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in 2012 after working in classical and quantum remote sensing. He is focused on bringing additional structural and functional contrast to OCT, with applications in gastrointestinal imaging, and functional retinal and intravascular imaging.

Technical Development Projects:
Probabilistic OCT post-processing methods
Quantitative Microstructure Sensing

Giulia Mansutti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Padova (Padova, Italy). Giulia joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in March 2021, and her research mainly focuses on laser speckle imaging.

Bhaskara Rao Chintada is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2021. His current research focuses on developing deep learning signal/image processing methods to analyze and enhance optical coherence tomography and ultrasound images.

Ryan McAuley joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2024. He completed his PhD in Physics at the University of Galway in 2024. He received his BSc in Physics and Instrumentation from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (now the Atlantic Technological University). His current research is focused on signal analysis and image processing for functional Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), including OCT Angiography.

Sebastián Ruiz-Lopera is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program at MIT. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics and Master’s degree in Applied Physics from EAFIT University (Colombia). He is currently focused on developing post-processing techniques for improving image quality and contrast in structural and functional OCT.

Ginger Schmidt is a PhD student in the Health Sciences and Technology program at MIT. She received her BSc in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. She is currently working on OCT applications in elastography.

Tianhui (Cindy) Jie is currently a PhD student in the Health Sciences and Technology program at MIT. She received her BSc in Physics with a minor in Design from MIT in the spring of 2023. She is currently working on computational and hardware methods for enhancing structural and functional ophthalmic OCT imaging.

Taylor Cannon graduated from the Health Sciences and Technology MEMP PhD program at MIT in Spring 2023. She worked on enhancing structural contrast in OCT for clinical diagnostic imaging applications. She previously received her undergraduate training at Vanderbilt University.

Rachel Chae worked on improving OCT structural imaging for lipid-rich plaque detection during her undergraduate studies at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Oxford as a Marshall fellow.