Three PhD students honored with Beckman Fellowship awards
5/5/2019
Recently, three ECE ILLINOIS PhD students were announced as recipients of the 2019 Beckman Institute student awards. These awards are presented to both undergraduate and graduate students during a reception in May.
Ma is leading research on neuron spiking imaging on a high-speed fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope that she developed from scratch in ECE ILLINOIS Assistant Professor Liang Gao's lab. She is studying compressed ultrafast photography, which allows for capturing images of events happening faster than nanoseconds and allows for blur-free observations in applications with basic science, industry, and the medical field. Ma is planning on working with ECE ILLINOIS Associate Professor Gabriel Popescu and Catherine Best-Popescu of Bioengineering.
Yu is working with ECE ILLINOIS Professor Thomas S Huang, Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus, on research in machine perception, generative models, and high performance computing. His current work involves exploring deep generative models for content creation, and dynamic and efficient deep neural networks for edge devices.
Check out the full list of award recipients on the Beckman site.