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Sixian You serves as the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Assistant Professor and the Bonnie and Marty (1964) Tenenbaum Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds the position of Principal Investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. You earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013 and her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. She completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. Her research interests are in biophotonics and microscopy, with an emphasis on developing hardware and algorithms to overcome longstanding imaging limitations for biomedical translation.

You has received the NSF CAREER Award, SCIALOG Advancing Bioimaging Award, Amazon Research Award, Microscopy Innovation Award, McGinnis Medical Innovation Graduate Inaugural Fellowship, Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship from UIUC, and Nikon Photomicrography Competition Image of Distinction award. Her work has been featured on the Cancer Research Cover, PNAS Cover, and Nature Communications Editors’ Highlight. Recent research includes developments in self-organizing pencil beam lasers for biomedical imaging and noninvasive imaging methods that penetrate deeper into living tissue.