People

A small group of engineers and physicists who build optical setups and write the code that turns their raw data into measurements.

Principal investigator

M. Fatih Toy

Associate Professor and Head of Biomedical Engineering

Leads the lab. Digital holography, quantitative phase imaging, holotomography and computational microscopy.

Graduate students

Mohammad M. T. R. Hussein

MSc graduate, 2026

Polarization-sensitive digital holography, birefringence imaging and full-field Jones matrix reconstruction.

Maha Sahloul

MSc student

My research interests include digital holography, quantitative phase imaging, and Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs)

Undergraduate researchers

Beyza Konyar

Undergraduate researcher

Senior biomedical engineering student; graduation project on an incubator with integrated imaging for live mammalian cell monitoring.

Mert Mestçi

Undergraduate researcher

Senior biomedical engineering student; graduation project on an incubator with integrated imaging for live mammalian cell monitoring.

Alumni

Collaborators

  • Elena AchimovaMoldova State University; polarization holography
  • Kaan AkşitUniversity College London; augmented-reality microscopy
  • Onur FerhanogluIstanbul Technical University; spectrometers and MEMS
  • Bilal E. KermanKeck School of Medicine of USC and Istanbul Medipol University; myelin imaging