Isaac Gallegos
PhD Student · University of Colorado Boulder
I’m a physics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder where my interests are in the physical foundations of next-generation computing and intelligence such as quantum and neuromorphic computing. I am interested in the theory, computation, and fabrication of the materials that define intelligent computing function. Before Boulder I was in the Bouma Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, developing methods in optical coherence tomography (OCT) including spectroscopic OCT, spectral unmixing for photoacoustic imaging, and micro-LED based OCT.
Currently: Finishing a laser safety calculator for evaluating tissue exposure limits and reading about topology and differential geometry.
Selected work
All projectsOCT gives you 3D structure, but not composition. This project adds molecular characterization to interferometric imaging — figuring out what a tissue is made of from how it scatters broadband light.
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical SchoolNIR-II Photoacoustic ImagingAn all-fiber laser amplifier at 1064 nm, built for photoacoustic imaging. The point: use multiple wavelengths and inverse algorithms to identify molecules deep in tissue without any labels or dyes.
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical SchoolRecent writing
All writingResearch interests
Currently my work centers on quantum materials and nanophotonics. I’m also interested in where machine learning and physics intersect such as in inverse problems and quantum machine learning. My research interests started with single-photon detection, nonlinear optics, and laser physics.
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