People

Faculty

Audrey K Ellerbee, PhD. (Assistant Professor)

Audrey holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University; she completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Dr. Ellerbee is the recipient of numerous honors and fellowships, including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, National Society of Black Engineers Graduate Student of the Year Award, the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellowship and the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Audrey officially joined Stanford University and the Ginzton Laboratory in September 2010, and is a member of the Optical Society of America and the SPIE.

Research interests: microscopy, optical coherence tomography, optofluidics, low-cost diagnostics.

Administrative Staff

Susan Ayres

Susan received her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, in Communications, with a minor in Business Administration. She has been with Stanford since 2003 working in the School of Medicine before coming to Ginzton Laboratory in 2012. She enjoys her family, two Corgis, and working out.

Students


	Hee Yoon Lee Hee Yoon is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. He received his undergraduate degree from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Hee Yoon’s research interests include 3-D real-time Swept-source optical coherence tomography and extended ranging depth in Spectral-domain Optical Coherence Tomography.
	Kristen Lurie Kristen is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and A.B. and B.E. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College.
	Tahereh Marvdashti Tahereh is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. She received her undergraduate degree from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and her Master’s degree from San Jose State University. Her research interests include Applied Signal Processing, particularly its applications in biomedical devices, bio-imaging and analyzing biological signals.
	Saara Khan Saara is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interest is in optofluidics, particularly the manipulation of microparticles for spectroscopy.
	Gennifer Smith Gennifer is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. She received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Biology from The University of New Mexico. Her research interests are optical-based point-of-care diagnostic devices aimed for use in low-resource areas.
	Livia Zarnescu Livia Zarnescu is a graduate student in Bioengineering. She received her BS in Optical Engineering from the University of Arizona, and her MS in Bioengineering from Stanford University. Her research is focused on developing a high resolution OCT system to study preimplantation embryo development and predict viability.
	Henrique Costa Henrique is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. He received his undergraduate degree from Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR), his M.S. in Electrical Egineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and worked in integrated circuit design and software development. His current research interests include Optical Coherence Tomography, biomedical imaging and its application to biomedical devices.