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Roarke Horstmeyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He develops microscopes and computer algorithms for a wide range of applications, including forming 3D reconstructions of organisms and detecting neural activity in deep tissue. His research interests lie in optics, signal processing, and optimization in neuroscience. Horstmeyer has served as a guest professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and was an Einstein postdoctoral fellow at Charité Medical School in Berlin. He earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2016, a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab in 2011, and a bachelor's degree in physics from Duke University in 2006. His work emphasizes the integration of computational optics and machine learning to improve the capture and use of images of microscopic phenomena in various biomedical contexts.
Duke University • Durham, NC
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, focusing on developing computational methods for imaging.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)