Gina Rinehart’s Hancock pumps $72m into Lumitron’s US imaging technology for cancer detection and mining

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Gina Rinehart’s Hancock pumps $72m into Lumitron’s US imaging technology for cancer detection and mining

Sean Smith | The West Australian | Wed, 24 June 2026 10:28PM

Mining and pastoralist billionaire Gina Rinehart is deploying more than $70 million into revolutionary imaging technology that can detect not just cancer but contaminants in iron ore.

The businesswoman’s Hancock Prospecting has taken a $US50m ($US72m) strategic investment in California-based Lumitron Technologies, with the cash to support the commercial development of the company’s Hyperview system, which is said to deliver X-rays with up to 1000 times the resolution of conventional machines.

Hancock, which has been diversifying into technologies including artificial intelligence over the past 12 months, has the right to double its investment to $US100m by the end of 2026.

Lumitron was set up by Australian Nanosonics founder Maurie Stang and American scientists.

It uses a high-energy laser light source to collide a beam of very high energy electrons (VHEE) with a laser beam to produce high-energy, high-resolution X-rays that generate 100 times less radiation than existing machines.

Lumitron says the higher resolutions will improve early cancer detection and enable quicker, targeted treatment, reducing damage to healthy tissue.

Cancer research is a subject close to Mrs Rinehart’s heart, with Hancock a prominent financial backer of research and support services for breast cancer in particular.

However, HyperView also has applications in her WA iron ore empire, where it could be deployed to improve processing of the State’s biggest export earner.

Mrs Rinehart said the machine was “designed to go beyond conventional industrial X-ray systems, which are typically limited to analysing the shape and density of materials”.

“HyperView has the potential to identify the composition and concentration of minerals and contaminants in ore, allowing mining operators to selectively process higher-value ore, thereby improving recovery rates while potentially reducing energy consumption and overall processing costs,” she said.

The investment provides for three machines to be deployed in Australia.

Hancock also gets a board seat with Lumitron.

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UC Irvine Engineering Researchers Develop New Method for Controlling Light in Nanomaterials

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Findings open a simpler path to tunable nanoscale optical materials

May 28, 2026 – A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Maxim Shcherbakov in the UC Irvine Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed a simple way to change how infrared light moves through an ultrathin crystal – using only heat and pressure.

The study, published in ACS Nano, was carried out in collaboration with researchers from UCI’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. It shows that carefully introduced defects inside a crystal can provide a new way to tune its optical behavior without complex fabrication or chemical additives.

The findings point to a new strategy for controlling light in nanomaterials: rather than adding complexity, researchers can make carefully chosen changes within the material itself. The material at the center of the work is alpha-molybdenum trioxide, or α-MoO₃, a layered crystal known for its unusual interaction with infrared light. In this material, light couples with the crystal lattice vibrations, forming hybrid waves called phonon polaritons. These waves can confine infrared energy to spaces far smaller than the wavelength of light itself, making them promising for future technologies, such as compact sensors, thermal imaging systems and nanoscale optical circuits.

A major challenge, however, has been finding practical ways to control these waves. Previous methods often relied on intricate nanofabrication, chemical modification or energetic particle beams, which can damage the material or reduce its performance.

The UCI team found a gentler alternative. They placed thin α-MoO₃ flakes between silicon wafers, applied mild pressure, and heated them to temperatures comparable to those of a household oven. This treatment removed a small number of oxygen atoms from the crystal, leaving behind atomic-scale vacancies. The heating and cooling process also left the material slightly compressed.

“What is exciting about this approach is its simplicity,” said Mashnoon Alam Sakib, a graduate student in Shcherbakov’s group and the study’s first author. “Instead of building complicated nanostructures or introducing foreign elements, we use a straightforward thermal process to reshape the material’s optical behavior from within.”

To observe the effect, the researchers used photo-induced force microscopy, a technique capable of mapping nanoscale light waves that are invisible to ordinary microscopes. They found that the treated crystals carried polariton waves with noticeably altered wavelengths—an average shift of about 13%, reaching up to 24% in some regions.

“These waves are far too small to observe with conventional optics,” said Naveed Hussain, a former postdoctoral researcher in Shcherbakov’s group, now at Toyota Research Institute of North America. “The microscopy allowed us to directly visualize how the heat-and-pressure treatment changed the way infrared energy travels through the crystal.”

Importantly, the material retained much of its performance. Modifying a crystal often causes light-based waves to fade more quickly, but in this case, the engineered polaritons remained relatively long-lived, with only a moderate reduction compared with the untreated material.

“There is usually a trade-off between tuning a material and preserving the quality of the waves it supports,” Shcherbakov said. “Here, we were able to achieve a meaningful change in optical response while keeping the polaritons robust enough to remain useful.”

UCI researchers collaborating on the study include Mariia Stepanova and Kumar Wickramasinghe from the Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; William Harris, Joshua Bocanegra and Ruqian Wu from the Department of Physics and Astronomy; and Juan Diego Sanchez and Camilo Velez from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Click here or visit https://bit.ly/light-nanomaterials to read the full article on the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering website.

 

UCI Students Transcend Musical Boundaries with Inventions

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– Natalie Tso, UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering

May 21, 2026 – UC Irvine students challenged the limits of music through their inventions showcased at the third annual Engineering-Symphonic Orchestra New Instrument Competition (E-SONIC) on Monday.  Jars filled with water, XYZ coordinates, dancing gloves and heartbeat-led-percussion were just some of the creative ways students expanded the boundaries of sound with their musical instruments.

The annual event is hosted by the UCI Samueli School of Engineering. Most participants were engineering students, but the creators also included students across campus who major in physics, computer science, music and social ecology. “It’s a super collaborative project where we get to combine art and engineering,” said mechanical engineering senior Vanessa Shimizu.

The Bubble Box team introduced water and fluid dynamics into the world of music. They use jars filled with water and a  “bubble ring,” a rotating donut-shaped fluid, that actuates sensors at the bottom of the cylinders to trigger musical notes.

Electrical engineering senior Lucas Kang of the Chordinates team said they wanted to expand the dimensions of music by going 3D. “We wanted to show that even integrals of space can produce music,” Kang said.  Their system maps XYZ position data to pitch, spatialization and other parameters to make sound as the players walk around with their devices to create 3D motion.

Musical gloves and performance were the themes for the Jazz Hands and Pas de Deux teams. With Jazz Hands, the player slips on the gloves and draws two boxes in the air. Then the user plays notes inside those boxes by tapping specific regions and instruments. The team said they wanted to show that you can “make sounds from thin air.”

Pas de Deux, “a step for two” in French, challenges the solitary nature of a musical instrument as it requires two people to play. Two persons wear gloves and move their hands in relation to each other to produce sounds. It was the most visually artistic of the performances as two dancers dressed in black moved their hands and bodies to create never-before-heard music.

The winner of the competition was StringTone, which uses the power of magnets to perform music. The students created a sound design instrument that uses Hall effect sensors, which measure the magnitude of a magnetic field, and turn them into 512 electrical signals. Those signals become waveform, repeating patterns that produce notes. Why magnets? “Because they’re cool,” said applied physics senior Alex Ikeda, who also was on the winning team for last year’s contest for their instrument Sali-Nity which turned salt into sound.

Ikeda said their main aim was to get the sounds they wanted in a quicker manner than usual synthesizers. “We have magnets which can be moved around at will to control the sound of the instrument,” Ikeda said. Users can even use magnets to draw a smile or whatever shape they desire to create the wave table which creates the sound.

HeartThrob won the People’s Choice Award as it was a clear favorite. Emilio Aris Lim, computer science and engineering senior, said he was inspired by his work at UCI assistant professor of biomedical engineering Pim Oomen’s Beat Lab which studies the cardiovascular system. Lim recruited his friends to make an instrument that uses sensors to convert the body’s natural rhythms into what the team described as “a drum machine reminiscent of those back in the 70s and 80s.”

They used an ECG to measure heartbeat, a PPG to measure blood flow and an PPG to measure muscle activity. Those unique rhythms create percussion sounds tailored to the person’s body. Engineering senior Kai Cheung quipped, “Heart throb turns you into the instrument as long as your heart’s in the right place.”

Faculty mentors for E-SONIC doubled as the cool band that opened the competition and rocked to songs like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and Green Day’s “Good Riddance” throughout the evening. Engineering faculty Pim Oomen, Maxim Shcherbakov, Bihter Padak and Ali Mohraz advised students and performed along with former Samueli School of Engineering Dean Magnus Egerstedt who made a guest appearance.

“E-SONIC is a unique opportunity for our students to show their artistic and creative sides while applying their engineering skills,” said assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Bihter Padak. In its third year, E-SONIC has been an excellent way to allow students to show off their musical engineering ingenuity while earning academic credit.

Click here or visit https://bit.ly/boundaries-inventions to read the full article on the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering website.

 

A message from Gillian R. Hayes Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

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Congratulations to UC Irvine Recipients of the University of California Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards

We are pleased to announce that, out of 100 applicants across the University of California, six UC Irvine faculty members have been selected as recipients of the inaugural Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards! This competitive program recognizes outstanding early career scholars whose innovative research demonstrates exceptional promise and impact.

Please join us in congratulating the following UC Irvine awardees:

Ty Christoff-Tempesta, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Unzip, rebuild, repeat: sustainable and circular plastics alternatives designed to deconstruct and reassemble

Matthew Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Multi-Location Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination: Cost Savings and Emission Reduction Through Aggregator Cooperation

Matthew Griffin, School of Physical Sciences
Targeting peptidoglycan remodeling to combat the threat of multidrug resistant bacteria

Christopher Ignacio Olivares Martinez, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
A new paradigm to discover microorganisms to fully biodegrade PFAS, the “forever chemicals

Christofer Rodelo, School of Social Sciences
So Moved: Dance, Migration, and the Making of Latinx New York

Fei Xia, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Live Biopsy Microscope: Label-Free, Real-Time Disease Diagnosis for Accessible Precision Medicine

Each awardee will receive a $50,000 research award, for a total of $300,000 awarded to UC Irvine faculty through this inaugural cycle. We are proud to see UC Irvine faculty recognized for their creativity, scholarly excellence, and contributions to addressing critical societal challenges!

Please join us in congratulating our colleagues on this well-deserved achievement!

Sincerely,

Gillian R. Hayes
Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

Click here or visit https://bit.ly/uc-early-career-award-xia to read more about the University of California Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards.

 

Congratulations to UC Irvine Recipients of the University of California Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards

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We are pleased to announce that, out of 100 applicants across the University of California, six UCI faculty members have been selected as recipients of the inaugural Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards! This competitive program recognizes outstanding early career scholars whose innovative research demonstrates exceptional promise and impact.

Please join us in congratulating the following UCI awardees:

Ty Christoff-Tempesta, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Unzip, rebuild, repeat: sustainable and circular plastics alternatives designed to deconstruct and reassemble

Matthew Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Multi-Location Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination: Cost Savings and Emission Reduction Through Aggregator Cooperation

Matthew Griffin, School of Physical Sciences
Targeting peptidoglycan remodeling to combat the threat of multidrug resistant bacteria

Christopher Ignacio Olivares Martinez, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
A new paradigm to discover microorganisms to fully biodegrade PFAS, the “forever chemicals

Christofer Rodelo, School of Social Sciences
So Moved: Dance, Migration, and the Making of Latinx New York

Fei Xia, Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Live Biopsy Microscope: Label-Free, Real-Time Disease Diagnosis for Accessible Precision Medicine

Each awardee will receive a $50,000 research award, for a total of $300,000 awarded to UCI faculty through this inaugural cycle. We are proud to see UCI faculty recognized for their creativity, scholarly excellence, and contributions to addressing critical societal challenges!

Please join us in congratulating our colleagues on this well-deserved achievement!

Sincerely,

Gillian R. Hayes
Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

Click here or visit https://ap.uci.edu/2026/05/07/earlycareerawardees/ to read UC Irvine Academic Personnel announcement.

 

The Innovator Awards recognize UCI researchers working to move UCI knowledge and discoveries to market

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UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation, with generous support from Don and Ken Beall, created the annual Innovator Awards to recognize UC Irvine researchers working actively to promote commercialization of university intellectual property, which supports industry growth and moves inventions from the lab to market to benefit humankind.

Early Career Innovator/Emerging Innovation of the Year:

Recognizes distinguished innovators who have demonstrated excellence in the early stage of their careers, or in the early stages of an innovation breakthrough, through a combined effort in outstanding research and innovation.

This Year’s Awardees:

EMERGING INNOVATION/EARLY CAREER INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang, Ph.D.
Professor, Radiological Sciences
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering

Radiacoustic Imaging (RAI) System for Precision Radiotherapy
Developing a radiacoustic imaging system that provides real-time 3D radiation dose mapping to support more precise and effective radiotherapy treatments.

Click here to learn more on the UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation website.

Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD, to Deliver School of Medicine’s Commencement Address

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UC Irvine School of Medicine will celebrate its Class of 2026 MDs, residents, and fellows at commencement on Saturday, May 16, at 2 p.m. in the Bren Events Center. This is a ticketed event; anyone unable to attend in person can view the ceremony through the livestream link.

This year’s featured commencement speaker is Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health, where he leads programs advancing engineering, physical science and computational technologies in biology and medicine. He also spearheaded the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx Tech) initiative to expand COVID-19 testing and accelerate the development of innovative diagnostic and point-of-care technologies. His research focuses on optical and photonic technologies for biomedical imaging and therapy, including portable and wearable tools for real-time, noninvasive monitoring of tissue health.

Prior to joining NIH in 2019, Tromberg spent nearly three decades at UC Irvine, where he was a professor of surgery and biomedical engineering, director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, and a co-founder of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. An internationally recognized leader in biophotonics, he has authored more than 450 publications, holds numerous patents, and has trained more than 100 students and fellows. He is also co-founder of the biophotonics company Modulim Inc., a member of the National Academies of Medicine and Engineering, and a fellow of multiple leading scientific organizations.

We look forward to welcoming Tromberg and celebrating the School of Medicine Class of 2026!

Click here to read the full UC Irvine School of Medicine announcement.

BERNARD CHOI NAMED DIRECTOR OF UC IRVINE BECKMAN LASER INSTITUTE & MEDICAL CLINIC

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Biomedical Optical Imaging Scientist to Lead Premier Laser Research Institute

UC Irvine has appointed Dr. Bernard Choi as Director of Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic, following a comprehensive national search. The appointment marks a new chapter for one of the world’s leading centers for biomedical photonics, laser medicine, and translational optical research.

A long-standing member of the UC Irvine research community, Dr. Choi has served as the Institute’s Interim Director for the past three years, guiding the team through a period of significant growth and scientific achievement. As Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, he bridges the School of Medicine and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. His service as Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering further reflects a deep and abiding dedication to the university’s educational mission.

“The next chapter of the Institute is about translation, moving new innovations in optical and photonic technologies out of the laboratory and impacting patient care,” said Dr. Choi. “That vision only succeeds if we are equally committed to the educators and trainees who will carry this field forward.”

Dr. Choi earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. He went on to complete both his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

At the core of Dr. Choi’s scientific mission is the development of in vivo optical imaging methods for monitoring biological tissues in both normal and diseased states. Dr. Choi’s group is internationally recognized for advancing laser speckle imaging (LSI) to monitor blood flow in real time, alongside complementary modalities such as spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI). These techniques have been applied to intrasurgical monitoring, burn triage, hemorrhage monitoring, wound healing assessment, and cerebral blood flow measurement, establishing the Institute as a leader in translational biophotonics. His laboratory is world-renowned for pioneering work in optical clearing (the use of chemical agents to reduce the scattering properties of biological tissue). This technique enables high-resolution, three-dimensional optical imaging and opens new frontiers in understanding disease progression and response to novel therapies.

To date, Dr. Choi has authored 157 peer-reviewed publications and holds seven patents. He has secured competitive extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DoD), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and other federal sponsors.

Dr. Choi’s active research portfolio reflects a consistent ability to move optical science from the benchtop to the bedside. With NIH support, he is developing a wearable optical patch to continuously monitor tissue perfusion, blood oxygenation, and microvascular function in real time with broad implications for remote patient care and personalized medicine. Supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Dr. Choi is also developing an optical monitoring device to improve real-time assessment of maternal and fetal health during pregnancy and childbirth, addressing a critical gap in modern medicine. This work extends to field-deployable applications in military medicine, emergency response, and pre-hospital care.

Dr. Choi is equally invested in education and workforce development. He is establishing a UC Irvine Core Optical Laboratory Resource (COLR), a hands-on training facility for scientists, engineers, and clinicians in fundamental and applied optics and photonics. As co-PI of the Access to Careers in Engineering and Sciences (ACES) program, he leads an eight-week summer initiative providing undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with immersive research experiences and mentorship in biomedical engineering and optical medicine. He also co-directs the NIH-funded Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training (IPERT) program and serves as co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) on the NSF Team Science for Integrated Biomedical Engineering and Social Science Training (BEST) graduate training program. As PI of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)-funded Military Medical Photonics center at the Institute, he collaborates with researchers in translating optical science to military medicine.

As Director, Dr. Choi will oversee the Institute’s research portfolio, operations, educational programs, and strategic direction. He assumes leadership of an institution with a distinguished history of scientific excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration, and real-world clinical impact.

“For nearly four decades, the Institute has transformed the way light is used to understand, diagnose, and heal,” said Dr. Choi. “My priorities now are clear: accelerate the translation of optical science into patient care, strengthen biophotonics education at every level, and cultivate a strong network of supporters to sustain our life-changing work for decades to come.”

 

 

 

 

Lifestyle, dietary habits can contribute to early hair loss

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Researchers learned about condition, how body responds to inflammation during COVID-19 pandemic, says UCI Health dermatologist

IN THE NEWS: The exact causes of hair loss are not fully known, but some researchers say lifestyle and dietary habits can bring on early onset of genetic hair loss. UCI Health board certified dermatologist Dr. Natasha Mesinkovska spoke with MarketWatch about some of the reasons people experience it.

“We learned a lot about hair loss through the pandemic, and then it highlighted how our body responds to inflammation.”

COVID-19 can also cause temporary hair shedding during and after infection.

Mesinkovska also says GLP-1s can trigger temporary hair loss due to rapid weight loss in people who don’t eat very much or very well while taking the medicines. In some cases, she encourages patients to slow down their weight loss by staying on a lower dose of the medicines.

Mesinkovska is a board-certified UCI Health dermatologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders, including skin cancer. Her research interests include alopecia and dermatitis and she is the author or co-author of many articles in peer-reviewed publications.

In addition, she is an investigator on several current clinical trials involving alopecia, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and skin laxity. She is also an associate professor of dermatology and the vice chair for clinical research in the Department of Dermatology at UC Irvine School of Medicine. Mesinkovska also serves as the director of integrative dermatology at the Beckman Laser Institute and the chief scientific officer of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.

About UCI Health

UCI Health, one of California’s largest academic health systems, is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. The 1,461-bed system comprises its main campus UCI Health — Orange, its flagship hospital, the UCI Health — Irvine acute care hospital and medical campus, four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and a network of ambulatory care centers across the region. UCI Health — Orange provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to the only Orange County-based National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. Powered by UC Irvine, UCI Health serves 5.6 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter).

Click here or visit https://www.ucihealth.org/about-us/news/2026/04/hair-loss to full UCI Health news article.

Samueli Foundation Selects 6 UCI-UCLA Engineering Collaborative Grants

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– Emily Mae Gong, UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering

April 14, 2026 – The Samueli Foundation has funded another round of the UCLA–UC Irvine Collaborative Grants Program. Established in 2024, the initiative pulls together faculty from both Samueli Schools of Engineering and is designed to deepen cross-campus partnerships and accelerate high-impact research.

Building on the momentum of the 2024 awards, this year’s program encourages ambitious, high-risk ideas under the theme “100× Multipliers.” The intent is to inspire exploratory, proof-of-concept projects that combine analysis, design and initial experimental demonstrations capable of positioning UCI–UCLA collaborative teams for future extramural research funding from federal agencies, foundations and industry.

“From reimagining how we trust artificial intelligence to unlocking the hidden workings of satellite networks, accelerating life-saving medical imaging, and enabling swarms of autonomous machines to operate at unprecedented scale, this year’s cohort reflects the remarkable breadth of what becomes possible when two world-class engineering schools work as one,” said Andre Shkel, UCI associate dean of research and innovation.

Here are the newly funded early career faculty collaborations.

Maxim Radikovich Shcherbakov (UCI), Md Shafayat Hossain (UCLA) 

Assistant Professors Maxim Shcherbakov, electrical engineering and computer science, and Md Shafayat Hossain, materials science and engineering, are developing a new kind of light detector that can sense the handedness, or circular polarization, of light without requiring an external power source. Today’s detectors that can do this are bulky, power-hungry and impractical for compact devices. By layering specially engineered nano-scale surfaces called chiral metasurfaces onto advanced quantum materials, the team aims to amplify the electrical signal produced by polarized light by up to 100 times all within a small, chip-compatible design. If successful, this technology could transform how light-based information is processed in applications ranging from augmented reality and infrared sensing to ultrafast communications and quantum computing.

Fei Xia (UCI), Liang Gao (UCLA) 

ei Xia, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Liang Gao, associate professor of bioengineering, are working together to dramatically speed up how scientists capture 3D images of living tissue. Today’s best microscopes can only capture about one 3D image per second of deep tissue, which is far too slow to observe rapid biological events like brain activity or immune responses in real time. By combining a cutting-edge optical technique called squeezed light-field microscopy with advanced computational algorithms, the researchers aim to achieve imaging speeds of over 1,000 frames per second — a leap of 100 to 1,000 times faster than current technology. If successful, this could unlock entirely new discoveries in neuroscience, cancer biology and beyond, enabling scientists to observe biological processes in living tissue that were previously impossible to capture.

Click here or visit https://bit.ly/samueli-foundation-ucla-collab to read full article on the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering website.