Adrien Desjardins

Professor

• Dr. Desjardins will be accepting graduate students for Jan 2025 and Sep 2025. Please email him with your expression of interest, and apply to the program when applications are open Jun 1-Sep 1 (for Jan intake) and Oct 15 –  Feb 15 (for Sep intake)

Jointly appointed with Electrical & Computer Engineering

B.Sc. (UBC), Ph.D. (MIT, Harvard)

Research Interests

• Imaging and sensing
• Robotics
• Photonics
• Ultrasound
• Machine learning
• Marine and biomedical applications

Current Research Work

Dr. Desjardins’ interdisciplinary research is focused on the development of imaging and sensing modalities and autonomous robotics, with marine and biomedical applications. This program involves close collaboration with industry partners.

Selected Publications

• Seok H Yun, Guillermo J Tearney, Benjamin J Vakoc, Milen Shishkov, Wang Y Oh, Adrien E Desjardins, Melissa J Suter, Raymond C Chan, John A Evans, Ik-Kyung Jang, Norman S Nishioka, Johannes F De Boer, Brett E Bouma, “Comprehensive volumetric optical microscopy in vivo”, Nature medicine, vol. 12, issue. 12, pages 1429-1433, 2006
• Guillermo J Tearney, Sergio Waxman, Milen Shishkov, Benjamin J Vakoc, Melissa J Suter, Mark I Freilich, Adrien E Desjardins, Wang-Yul Oh, Lisa A Bartlett, Mireille Rosenberg, Brett E Bouma, “Three-dimensional coronary artery microscopy by intracoronary optical frequency domain imaging“, JACC: Cardiovascular imaging, vol. 1, issue. 6, pages 752-761, 2008
• Aydogan Ozcan, Alberto Bilenca, Adrien E Desjardins, Brett E Bouma, Guillermo J Tearney, “Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images using digital filtering“, JOSA A, vol. 24, issue. 7, pages 1901-1910, 2007
• James A Guggenheim, Jing Li, Thomas J Allen, Richard J Colchester, Sacha Noimark, Olumide Ogunlade, Ivan P Parkin, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Adrien E Desjardins, Edward Z Zhang, Paul C Beard, “Ultrasensitive plano-concave optical microresonators for ultrasound sensing“, Nature Photonics, vol. 11, issue 11, pages 714-719, 2017
• AE Desjardins, BJ Vakoc, GJ Tearney, BE Bouma, “Speckle reduction in OCT using massively-parallel detection and frequency-domain ranging“, Optics express, vol. 14, issue 11, pages 4736-4745, 2006
• Adrien E Desjardins, Kent A Kiehl, Peter F Liddle, “Removal of confounding effects of global signal in functional MRI analyses“, Neuroimage, vol. 13, issue 4, pages 751-758, 2001
• Rami Nachabe, Benno HW Hendriks, Adrien E Desjardins, Marjolein van der Voort, Martin B van der Mark, JCM Sterenborg Henricus, “Estimation of lipid and water concentrations in scattering media with diffuse optical spectroscopy from 900 to 1600nm“, Journal of biomedical optics, vol. 15, issue 3, pages 037015-037015-10, 2010
• Wang-Yuhl Oh, SH Yun, BJ Vakoc, M Shishkov, AE Desjardins, BH Park, JF De Boer, GJ Tearney, BE Bouma, “High-speed polarization sensitive optical frequency domain imaging with frequency multiplexing“, Optics express, vol. 16, issue 2, pages 1096-1103, 2008
• Benjamin J Vakoc, Milen Shishko, Seok H Yun, Wang-Yuhl Oh, Melissa J Suter, Adrien E Desjardins, John A Evans, Norman S Nishioka, Guillermo J Tearney, Brett E Bouma, “Comprehensive esophageal microscopy by using optical frequency–domain imaging (with video)“, Gastrointestinal endoscopy, vol. 65, issue 6, pages 898-905, 2007
• Rami Nachabé, Benno HW Hendriks, Marjolein van der Voort, Adrien E Desjardins, Henricus JCM Sterenborg, “Estimation of biological chromophores using diffuse optical spectroscopy: benefit of extending the UV-VIS wavelength range to include 1000 to 1600 nm“, Biomedical optics express, vol. 1, issue 5, pages 1432-1442, 2010

Patent:

• Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Adrien Emmanuel Desjardins, Martin Franciscus McKinney, “Examination apparatus“, 2015

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