News



March 2025

  • Jingyu’s paper on imaging-guided microscale photothermal stereolithography bioprinting (ImPSB) was published in Advanced Science. ImPSB has multiple innovations in system and material and features a new way of imaging-guided stereolithography.

February 2025

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was selected for Cover (volume 16, issue 2).

January 2025

  • Andy, Huan, and Tianqi each gave two talks, and Aleese gave one talk in Photonics West 2025.

  • Andy’s paper on Open Chrono-Morph Viewer (OCMV) was published in Bioinformatics. OCMV is a novel and unique open-source bioimage informatics platform, especially powerful in handling complex, heterogeneous volumetric time lapse. It is user friendly and is available at https://github.com/ShangWangLab/OpenChronoMorphViewer.

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was featured by news articles in Optics & Photonics News and BioTechniques.

  • The Optica news release on Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was covered by various media outlets, such as
    optics.org “Stevens Institute extracts new details from OCT of heart development”,
    Medical Xpress “Software tool provides a new view inside complex 3D biomedical images”,
    AZoLifeSciences “New Software Reveals Unprecedented Insights into Embryonic Heart Development”,
    SciTechDaily “Next-Gen Tool Provides New View Inside Complex 3D Biomedical Images”.

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was highlighted as an Editor’s Pick.

  • Andy’s paper on clipping spline and its application in embryonic heart development was published in Biomedical Optics Express and was featured by a news release from Optica. The clipping spline is fully implemented in OCMV and has unprecedented volume clipping capabilities, providing a completely new way of seeing inside 3D images.

  • Shang gave a talk in the 2025 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Conference.

October 2024

  • Shang presented a poster in the Biomedical Engineering Society 2024 Annual Meeting.

  • Shang co-chaired a session in biomechanics in the Biomedical Engineering Society 2024 Annual Meeting.

  • Shang gave a talk in the Building Bridges Across NIH and the Broader Engineering Community meeting organized by the BETA Center of NIH/NIBIB.

September 2024

  • Aleese gave a talk, and Aleese, Huan, and Tianqi each had a poster in the 2024 Next-Gen Healthcare Innovators Symposium.

  • Aubin joined the lab as a graduate researcher.

April 2024

  • Tianqi presented a poster in the AI Meets Science conference.

  • Aleese won the NEBEC Young Scientist Award.

  • Aleese, Huan, and Tianqi each gave a talk at the 50th Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC).

  • Shang gave a seminar for Therapeutic Laser Applications Technical Group in Optica.


March 2024

  • Tianqi’s paper on 3D particle streak velocimetry was published in Biomedical Optics Express.


January 2024

  • Andy, Tianqi, and Shang each gave a talk at the Photonics West BIOS.


December 2023

  • Jingyu’s Optics Continuum paper was selected as the highlight of the December issue.


November 2023

  • Jingyu’s paper on photothermal cell imaging was published in Optics Continuum.

  • Collaboration paper on imaging of cilia metachronal wave was published in Optica, featured in a news release by Optica, and featured by an article in Optics & Photonics News.

September 2023

  • Shang gave a seminar at the City College of New York.

June 2023

  • Aleese joined the lab as a graduate researcher.

  • Andy stayed with the lab as a research technician.

May 2023

  • Andy received the Outstanding Senior Award from Stevens.

  • Andy was featured by Photonics Spectra with “3 Questions with Andre Faubert”.

March 2023

  • Jingyu presented a poster at ACS Spring 2023.

February 2023

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was among the top downloads from January 2023.

January 2023

  • Andy gave two talks at the Photonics West BIOS.

  • Jingyu gave a talk at the Photonics West BIOS.

December 2022

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was highlighted as an Editor’s Pick.

  • Andy’s paper on open-source 4D embryonic heart imaging was published in Biomedical Optics Express. The code is on our Github: https://github.com/ShangWangLab/4D-Embryonic-Heart.

  • Shang received the Schaefer School Research Funding Award.

November 2022

  • Shang’s paper reviewing the in vivo imaging of gamete/embryo dynamics in the oviduct was published in Reproduction.

August 2022

  • Shang’s paper reviewing the imaging of embryonic heart valveless pumping was published in Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease.

July 2022

  • Dena joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

June 2022

  • Jingyu joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher.

April 2022

  • Shang gave an invited talk at the Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics.

March 2022

  • Shang gave a seminar at Stony Brook University.

January 2022

  • Huan joined the lab as a graduate researcher.

  • Tianqi passed his qualifying exam.

  • Shuo joined the lab as a graduate researcher.


November 2021

  • Enkhy won the 1st place in the I&E Summer Scholar Poster Competition.


August 2021

  • Our Cell Reports paper was featured by a Research Highlight article in Lab Animal (Ellen P. Neff, “A window into the dynamic world of mouse reproduction”, Lab Animal, 50: 240, 2021).

  • Enkhy won the 3rd place in the I&E Summer Scholar Elevator Pitch Competition.

  • Shang received the NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35).

July 2021

  • Shang’s paper on in vivo oocyte/embryo imaging was published in Cell Reports and featured by a news release from Baylor College of Medicine. Very excited about this paper.

  • Shang gave an invited talk at the Society for Reproductive Investigation 68th Annual Scientific Meeting.

June 2021

  • Shang joined the Editorial Board as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Physiology (developmental physiology section).

May 2021

  • Andy joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

  • Enkhy was selected as the I&E Summer Scholar at Stevens.

April 2021

  • Shang joined the Editorial Board as an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Journal.

January 2021

  • Shang gave an invited talk at the Photonics Spectra Conference 2021.

  • Enkhy joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

December 2020

  • We received a multi-PI NIH/NCI R21.

  • Shang’s book chapter was published in the Book “Imaging from Cells to Animals In Vivo”, CRC Press.

  • Biophotonics Magazine featured our study that was published in the JBO paper.

October 2020

  • Paper reviewing embryonic mouse cardiodynamic OCT imaging was published in Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease.

September 2020

  • Hirra continued her research in the lab while pursuing her Master's Degree.

August 2020

  • Shang’s paper on imaging of embryonic heart pumping dynamics was published in Journal of Biomedical Optics, selected for the Cover, and featured by a news release from SPIE.

  • Tianqi joined the lab as the first Ph.D. student.

July 2020

  • Paper on optogenetic pacing of mouse embryonic heart was published in Journal of Biophotonics.

May 2020

  • The Biomedical Optics Express paper is among top downloads in April 2021.

  • Shang gave a talk in the Summer Research Forum of the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science at Stevens.

  • Hirra and Elena joined the lab as undergraduate researchers for summer research.

March 2020

  • Shang’s paper reviewing label-free optical imaging in developmental biology was published in Biomedical Optics Express.

February 2020

  • Shang gave two talks at the Photonics West BIOS in San Francisco.

January 2020

  • We received a subaward of an NIH/NICHD R01, led by Baylor College of Medicine.

October 2019

  • Shang gave a talk in the Biomedical Engineering Society 2019 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

August 2019

  • Shang joined Stevens BME.

July 2019

  • Shang received the NIH/NIBIB Trailblazer Award (R21).