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The Jon Liu Lab Team

Jon Liu
Lab Director

Dr. Jonathan Liu

Dr. Jonathan Liu is a professor within the department of pathology at Stanford University, where his laboratory develops high-resolution optical-imaging devices and computational-analysis strategies for guiding treatment decisions.  Dr. Liu received an undergraduate engineering degree (BSE) at Princeton followed by graduate degrees (MS, PHD) in engineering at Stanford before becoming a ACS-funded postdoc and K99 instructor within the School of Medicine at Stanford.  Dr. Liu held faculty positions at Stony Brook University (2010 - 2014) and at the University of Washington in Seattle (2014 - 2025) before being recruited back to Stanford in 2025. Dr. Liu is a co-founder and board member of Alpenglow Biosciences Inc., which has commercialized the non-destructive 3D pathology technologies developed in his lab.  Dr. Liu’s work is funded by the NCI, NIBIB, NIDDK, DoD, NSF, ARPA-H and various foundations.  

Lab Members

David Brenes
Postdoc

David Brenes Rodriguez

Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Rice University, 2023

B.S. BME and ECE, Duke University, 2018

Catagay Isil
Postdoc

Cagatay Isil

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, UCLA, 2025
M.S. EE, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2019
B.S. Physics & EE, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2018

rauf kareem
Research Engineer

Rauf Kareen

B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Osmania Univ., Hyderabad, India, 2015

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Washington, 2023

Research Coordinator

Helena Son

B.S. Chemistry, Mcgill University, Quebec, Canada, 2012

Robert Serafin
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Robert Serafin

B.S. Physics, 2014
Evergreeen State College, Olympia, WA

Research Associate, Allen Institute for Brain Science, 2015 - 2019

Gordon Gao
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Gan Gao

B.E. Mechanical Engineering, 2020
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Sarah Chow
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Sarah Suet-Ling Chow

B.E. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2020

M.Phil. Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, 2022 

wang
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Rui “Ray” Wang

B.E. Mechanical Engineering, 2020
Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China

Han
Graduate Student, Bioengineering

Qinghua Han

B.S. Bioengineering, University of Washington, 2023

Hsieh
Graduate Student, Bioengineering

Huai-Ching Hsieh

B.S. Life Sciences and Electrical Engineering (double major)
National Taiwan University, 2023

Yan
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Renao Yan

B.E. Communication Engineering, Hunan University, China 2021

M.S. Electronics and Information Engineering, Tsinghua University, China 2024 

zhao
Graduate Student, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME)

Yujie Zhao

B.S. Computational Biology, University of Rochester, 2021

M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2024