07/07/26: Dr. Luis Chavez Fiestas successfully defended his thesis "Title: Mesoscopic Multimodal Imaging of Drug Delivery, Molecular State, and Biomechanical Heterogeneity in Three-Dimensional Tumor Models". During his time with us, Luis has authored publications such as "Design and characterization of an optical phantom for mesoscopic multimodal fluorescence lifetime imaging and optical coherence elastography", was awarded the Ajit Prabhu '98 Endowed Fellowship and mentored three undergraduate students!

06/24/2026: This spring, Ismail pitched MarginSense, the AI-powered surgical imaging technology which he is developing at the Startup Tech Valley Business Plan Competition, a student-focused event where early-stage university teams present to the Capital Region's business and investor community. I am happy to share that Ismail won the first prize, along with the Capital Cup!

04/08/26: Ismail Erbas received the 3MT Runner Up award at the 2026 Graduate Research Symposium at RPI for the Three Minute Thesis competition!

04/06/2026: In recognition of his research accomplishments during his time at RPI, Navid was awarded the 2026 'Zelda and David Gisser Award'.

01/26/2026: In collaboration with our friends at University of Bonn (Germany) and Albany Medical College, the manuscript titled "Compositional Amortized Inference for Large-Scale Hierarchical Bayesian Models" has been accepted for publication in the 2026 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)!