Popescu Lab @qlilab
The quantitative light imaging laboratory at UIUC develops novel label-free optical imaging techniques for biomedical applications. light.ece.illinois.edu Urbana, IL, USA Joined March 2011-
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SPIE In memoriam: Gabriel Popescu spie.org/news/in-memori…
The Daily Illini published a story about our work on label-free cell viability assay ow.ly/tFao50IiM7R @BeckmanInst @ECEILLINOIS @UofIllinois @uofigrainger
HOT of the Press: Cell Cycle Stage Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity ow.ly/8Hz250If82X Congrats, Kelly and the team! @BeckmanInst @ECEILLINOIS @uofigrainger @UofIllinois
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Automatic Colorectal Cancer Screening Using Deep Learning on Spatial Light Interference Microscopy Data Congratulations, Kelly Zhang and team! mdpi.com/2073-4409/11/4…
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Advanced imaging, AI distinguish healthy from injured cells ow.ly/KyGP50HSiFu
Gabriel Popescu: The 2022 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics ow.ly/j8Cj50HuVVU
HOT OFF the PRESS: Our paper titled “Label-free SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity” published today in Light: Science and Applications: ow.ly/sTqX50G3ni7
Professor Popescu’s work highlighted by AIMBE: aimbe.org/college-of-fel…
Fresh off the press: new review of SLIM published in Advances in optics and Photonics. Congrats Xi Chen et al.!
Our article “Computational Interference microcopy enabled by deep learning” featured on the cover of APL Photonics. Congrats to Yuheng Jiao and the team!
The result of a fruitful collaboration with the International Centre of Biodynamics, Bucharest, Romania “High-resolution impedance mapping using electrically activated quantitative phase imaging” was published today in LIGHT: Science and applications: ow.ly/TBJa50DeLz4
NEWS Article in The Academic Times about our Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity (PICS) #PICS #UIUC #BECKMAN #ECEILLINOIS #QLILAB academictimes.com/ai-powered-cel…
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Our paper on phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) is out today in Nature Communications ow.ly/9kit50CF84N PICS provides label-free imaging of live cells with molecular specificity from deep learning. #PICS #QPI #BECKMAN #UIUC
News and Views article about our Nature Photonics Article on Harmonic Optical Tomography (HOT) nature.com/articles/s4156… #Biophotonics #Microscopy #SHG #QPI
CANCER IMAGING AND PHENOTYPIC SCREENING AMONG STRONG IMPLICATIONS LINKED TO POPESCU AND CHEN'S NEW WOLF PHASE TOMOGRAPHY (WPT) METHOD ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/…
HOT OF THE PRESS Wolf Phase Tomography was published today in Light: Science and Applications rdcu.be/b6l5v #QPI #Tomography #SLIM #QLILAB #Beckman
New article published in PNAs today on sperm cell characterization using label-free imaging and AI. beckman.illinois.edu/about/news/art… #PICS #SLIM #GLIM #QLILAB #PNAS #Beckman #ECEILLINOIS

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