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2025 Lab Holiday Celebration!
The team celebrated the end of 2025 and the winter holidays in style with a delicious potluck dinner, lots of fun conversations, a proud reflection on all of the team’s accomplishments of the year and our matching lab beanies for the “cold” San Diego winters 🙂
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Dr. Zaid Haddadin successfully defends his PhD thesis!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Zaid Haddadin for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Zaid is the first PhD student in the group to graduate and he was part of the lab since the very first day (even a bit before!). His contributions to the group were wonderful, inspiring and invaluable and we will carry on his…
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SPIE 2026
The lab presented 6 talks at our local SPIE Optics and Photonics in San Diego, including our annual lab lunch!
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2025 Beckman Symposium
Lisa presented the lab’s Beckman Young Investigator work at the 2025 Beckman Symposium. She met with several wonderful colleagues including fellow Mechanical Engineers shown here: Prof. Tania Morimoto from our own UCSD’s MAE Department and Prof. Margaret Byron from Penn State!
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2025 Graduation Celebration
The team met at An’s Hatmakers Ice Cream in Del Mar to celebrate the graduation of many of our amazing lab members! We are so proud of you and are so excited to see you go out into the world and make a meaningful impact. We will miss you!!! Hy Cao graduated with an MS…
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UCSD News Highlight: Butterfly Wings Inspire New Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnosis
Thank you so much to the UCSD News for featuring our latest work on tissue microstructure imaging with the Morpho Butterfly Wing! https://today.ucsd.edu/story/butterfly-wings-inspire-new-imaging-technique-for-cancer-diagnosis
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IEM GEMINI Faculty Mentor Award Celebration
The Poulikakos Lab had a blast at the annual Institute of Engineering in Medicine’s GEMINI celebration at the beautiful Birch Aquarium! Prof. Poulikakos was honored to receive the IEM GEMINI Faculty Mentor Award. The GEMINI Faculty Mentor Award is motivated by the IEM’s commitment to the principle that the contributions of researchers from diverse backgrounds…
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2024 SPIE Optics + Photonics
The Poulikakos Lab presented 6 talks at the 2024 SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego! We were delighted to connect with fantastic colleagues in the field from across the world!
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Paula Kirya Wins NSF GRFP Fellowship
Huge congratulations to our amazing lab member Paula Kirya in being selected for teh NSF GRFP fellowship for her research on butterfly-inspired tissue diagnostics! We celebrated with Matcha Lattes!
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