Fang Huang, Ph.D., Principal InvestigatorDr. Huang is Reilly Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Fang Huang earned his B.S. in Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of New Mexico in 2011 (Advisor: Keith Lidke). Before joining Purdue, Dr. Huang worked with Joerg Bewersdorf as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University.
Email: fanghuang at purdue.edu |
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Cheng Bi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral AssociateCheng Bi is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Huang lab. He earned a B.S. in Biological Science at the Sichuan University in 2015, his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh in 2017 and Ph.D. in the Huang lab at Purdue University in 2025. Cheng is the inventor of SPTnet, an end-to-end transformer based single particle analysis pipeline. Cheng currently works on correlated functional and structural analysis of the brain. Cheng is co-advised by Prof. Chubykin in Biological Sciences, Prof. Rochet in MCMP and Prof. Huang in BME.
Email: bi19 at purdue.edu |
Yue Zheng, Ph.D., Postdoctoral AssociateDr. Zheng is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Huang lab in the Weldon
School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Yue earned her B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2016 and 2021, respectively (Advisor: Aijun Tong). Email: zheng678 at purdue.edu |
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Maryam Mahmoodi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral AssociateDr. Mahmoodi is currently a Postdoctoral research associate in the Huang lab in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Maryam earned her PhD degree in Photonics in 2019 at Laser and Plasma Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Iran. She spent a one-year visiting PhD in Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. Her doctoral research area was on artificial optical materials (Metamaterials) engineering and optical characterization, for the aim of fluorescence emission enhancement.
Email: mahmoo10 at purdue.edu |
Vamara Dembele, Ph.D., Postdoctoral AssociateDr. Dembele is a currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Huang lab in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Vamara earned his MSc. in Physics of Matter and Radiation and his Ph.D. in Applied Optics at Chouaib Doukkali University – El Jadida (Morocco) in 2009 and 2014, respectively. (Advisor: Abdelkarim Nassim).
Email: vdembele at purdue.edu |
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Hongjia Li, Ph.D., Postdoctoral AssociateDr. Li is currently a Postdoctoral research associate in the Huang lab in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Hongjia earned her PhD degree in Computer Science at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral research area was computer application technology, Cryo-EM methodology and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methodology. Hongjia is co-advised by Lauren-Ann Metskas (Biological Sciences) and Fang Huang (Biomedical Engineering).
Email: li4856 at purdue.edu |
Haoxuan Wang, Ph.D., Optical EngineerHaoxuan is currently is currently an Optical Engineer in the Huang lab. He earned his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University in Dec. 2023.
Email: wang4178 at purdue.edu |
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Mingdong Liu, Ph.D. StudentMingdong is currently a Ph.D. student in Huang’s lab. He earned his BME bachelor degree at Anhui Medical University(Advisor: Jinhua Zhou) and his BME master degree at Chongqing University(Advisor: Hongyan Luo).
Email: liu4019 at purdue.edu |
Tao Zhou, M.S., Software EngineerTao Zhou is currently a Software Engineer in the Huang lab in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Tao earned his M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan in 2023 and B.S. in Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University in 2021.
Email: zhou1601 at purdue.edu |
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Moye Yu, Ph.D. StudentMoye is a PhD Student in the Huang lab in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Medicine in 2014 and 2020. Moye used to be a radiologist and worked at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center for many years.
Email: ymoye at purdue.edu |
Siyu Zhou. Ph.D. StudentSiyu Zhou is currently a Phd student in the Huang lab in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Siyu earned her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 2024 (Advisor: Roarke Horstmeyer) and her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northeastern University in China in 2022. Her research interests center on the development of super-resolution microscopy techniques. In her free time, Siyu enjoys reading and spending time with her cat.
Email: zhou1609 at purdue.edu |
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Yuxuan Feng. Ph.D. StudentYuxuan is currently a PhD student in the Huang lab in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She earned her B. Eng. in computer science and electronic engineering at the University of Liverpool in 2024
Email: feng433 at purdue.edu |
Richard E Stanley. Undergrad ResearcherRicky is currently an undergraduate student in the Huang lab. He is currently majoring in Biomedical Engineering and is interested in learning about how to use different imaging techniques to visualize small molecules.
Email: stanle72 at purdue.edu |
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Charles Yuan. Undergrad ResearcherCharles Yuan is currently and undergraduate research in the Huang lab. He is currently majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Email: yuan433 at purdue.edu |
Nathan Amir Azimov. Undergrad ResearcherNathan Azimov is currently an undergraduate senior at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, concentrating in bioinstrumentation and bioimaging. He is assisting Dr. Vamara Dembele in his work on deep tissue brain imaging.
Email: nazimov at purdue.edu |
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Yile Sun. Ph.D., Postdoctoral AssociateDr. Sun is an incoming Postdoctoral research associate in the Huang lab in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Yile earned his B.E. and Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2020 and 2025, respectively (Advisor: Cuifang Kuang). His doctoral research focuses on sturctured illumincation microscopy and single-molecule localization microscopy.
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Maggie Love, Masters StudentMaggie Love is currently a Masters student in the Huang Lab in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She is co-mentored by Dr. Huang and Dr. Timothy Ratliff in the Comparative Pathobiology Department and the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research. Maggie earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University in 2024.
Email: melove at purdue.edu |
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Alumni
Fang Li, Graduate Student
Current position - Optical Hardware Engineer at Apple Inc.
Yilun Li, Graduate Student
Current position - Entrepreneur and co-Founder of Nanores LLC.
Peiyi Zhang, Graduate Student
Current position - Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University
Donghan Ma, Postdoc Associate/Senior Research Associate
Current position - Professor, Dalian University of Technology
Fan Xu, Postdoc Associate/Senior Research Associate
Current position - Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
Sheng Liu, Postdoc Associate/Senior Research Associate
Current position - Assistant Professor at Clemson University
Sha An, Visiting PHD student
Current position - Associate Professor, School of Physics, Xidian University
Benjamin Brenner, Undergraduate Researcher
Current position - Graduate Student at Northwestern University
David Miller, Undergraduate Researcher
Current position - Graduate Student at Northwestern University
Michael Mlodzianoski, Postdoc Associate
Current position - Super-resolution specialist at Centre for Dynamic Imaging, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Fang Li, Graduate Student
Current position - Optical Hardware Engineer at Apple Inc.
Yilun Li, Graduate Student
Current position - Entrepreneur and co-Founder of Nanores LLC.
Peiyi Zhang, Graduate Student
Current position - Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University
Donghan Ma, Postdoc Associate/Senior Research Associate
Current position - Professor, Dalian University of Technology
Fan Xu, Postdoc Associate/Senior Research Associate
Current position - Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
Sheng Liu, Postdoc Associate/Senior Research Associate
Current position - Assistant Professor at Clemson University
Sha An, Visiting PHD student
Current position - Associate Professor, School of Physics, Xidian University
Benjamin Brenner, Undergraduate Researcher
Current position - Graduate Student at Northwestern University
David Miller, Undergraduate Researcher
Current position - Graduate Student at Northwestern University
Michael Mlodzianoski, Postdoc Associate
Current position - Super-resolution specialist at Centre for Dynamic Imaging, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research