Meng Cui

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biological Sciences

Meng Cui received his B.S. in Physics from Nankai University in China in 2002. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 2008, both from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received the Peter Franken Award during his graduate study.

From January 2009 to July 2010, Dr. Cui was a post doctorate scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and received the Rosen scholar award. From September 2010 to August 2015, he headed a lab at the Janelia Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dr. Meng’s research interest is in vivo optical bioimaging. In particular, his lab aims to greatly improve the imaging throughput, depth and resolution for applications in neuroscience, immunology, development biology, cell biology, etc.