Our team get-together in celebration for Ankit Raghuram’s graduation.

Moments before we took on a thrilling go-karting ride at Andretti.

Rice University engineering researchers Yubo Tang (left) and Mary Jin are members of a team that used a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to train a computer algorithm to optimize both image collection and image post-processing in a new type of microscope that images all cells in large tissue sections. (Photo by Brandon Martin/Rice University)

Backlighting required for Rice University’s background-oriented schlieren imaging experiments produced this silhouette of Jonathan Fischer, principal oboe with the Houston Symphony, during experiments at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music in late August. (Photo by Brandon Martin/Rice University)

FAN YE’s miniature implantable integrated nanophotonic probe with light sheet illumination for deep brain imaging. [Photo by Fan Ye of Rice University]

Mayank Kumar is leading a project to refine video monitoring of vital signs by compensating for a patient’s skin tone, ambient lighting and movement. [ Photo by Jeff Fitlow of Rice University ]

FlatScope is being developed at Rice University for use as a fluorescent microscope able to capture three-dimensional data and produce images from anywhere within the field of view. [Photo by Jeff Fitlow of Rice University ]

Jesse Adams and Vivek Boominathan set up a test shot with a FlatCam prototype. [Photo by Jeff Fitlow of Rice University]

Ashok Veeraraghavan, Adam Samaniego and Ashutosh Sabharwal have developed mobileVision, a self-use mobile system to capture high-resolution images of a patient’s macula without dilation in advance. [Photo by Jeff Fitlow of Rice University]

Yicheng Wu demonstrates the SAVI prototype, which is able to capture fine details of an object from a distance. The prototype camera is on a motorized track in the foreground at left, while a laser at right creates a speckle pattern on the target, a fingerprint. [Photo by Jeff Fitlow of Rice University.]

Mayank Kumar, Amruta Pai and Akash Maity performing tests of optical imaging techniques for non-contact, remote monitoring of vital signs and tissue perfusion. [Photo by Vivek Boominathan/Rice University]

Ashok Veeraraghavan and Shezheng Zhang with selective plane illumination microscope prototype for imaging through scattering media. [Photo by ECE Rice University]