Diana Mojahed is a Postdoctoral Associate in the laboratory of Professor Juejun (JJ) Hu in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. Her multidisciplinary research is focused on developing chip-based optical instruments for medical imaging and sensing applications. Diana received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University in 2021 under Professor Christine Hendon. In her PhD, she developed an optical imaging device to rapidly evaluate breast biopsies and pathology specimens to improve the quality of care for patients, and performed a pilot clinical study at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Her work has been supported by the Columbia BiomedX Technology Accelerator Program, published in journals including Science Advances, and she has won awards including the Best Presentation at the Women in Science at Columbia Symposium, the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, and MKS Instruments Award.
