In summer 2017, I joined the Stony Brook Terahertz Biophotonics laboratory run by Dr. Hassan Arbab from the department of Biomedical Engineering. 

I originally worked on developing raster-scan codes for various motorized stages/mounts we have in our lab to allow for beam steering that can be used for 2D image formation.  I have written both ASCII and Binary codes in MATLAB and have written codes that are used by all members of our labs for a variety of projects.

I also worked on building a optical autocorrelator that can be used to measure the pulse width of a Terahertz pulse.  Through this project, I have gained quite a bit of experience with aligning optical elements, which have to be both spatially and temporally aligned for any useful measurment to be obtained.

Finally, my most prominent project that I have worked on for the past year is building a Terahertz Time domain scanner that can be used to perform topographic depth imaging of spherical targets.  This scanner can potentially be used to obtain thickness measurments of the cornea, which is commonly used as a diagnostic marker for assessing eye diseases.  This work has been presented as a poster at the 2018 National BMES conference and I have also given an oral talk on my work at the 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves in Paris, France.