11/20/2024: They were both awarded up to $700 from SPIE for Student Conference Support for their upcoming presentations at SPIE Photonics West 2025. Luis will be presenting his paper titled "Mesoscopic light-sheet imaging set-up for 3D SWIR fluorescence intensity and NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging" while Harrison will be presenting his work titled "Deep learning-based cancer cell line classification using morphological and topological organelle features".

10/08/2024: A research project led by Dr. Xavier Intes and Dr. Vikas Pandey titled "Optimization of Hardware-based Neural Network Accelerators for Fluorescence Lifetime in Biomedical Applications" has been selected for $100,000 in funding through 2025 by IBM as part of the IBM-RPI Future of Computing Research Collaboration.

10/31/2024: Their work titled “A Leap Forward in Cancer Imaging: Optimizing Recurrent Neural Networks for Real-Time Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging on Resource-Constrained FPGAs” has been selected for an exclusive, “invite-only” showcase at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights!

10/17/2024: Their manuscript titled "Compressing Recurrent Neural Networks for FPGA-accelerated Implementation in Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging" has been accepted for publication in NeurIPS 2024!

10/17/2024: Congratulations Yuanyuan (PhD '20), on her new academic position as Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Wichita State University!