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Trey is a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate at Duke University studying Biomedical Engineering. He graduated from Duke with an M.S. in BME (2022) and the University of Alabama - Birmingham with a B.S. of BME (2021). With the BIOS lab, he studies morpho-mechanical characteristics of red blood cells using Quantitative Phase Imaging. He previously investigated mechanotransduction using combined quantitative phase and FRET images to extract uniquely coupled data.

His previous research includes work at Dr. Margaret Liu's UAB Cellular Therapy Lab where he performed a variety of assays under his graduate research advisor.

Apart from academic research Trey enjoys both listening and playing music, film, and his two cats - Pocket and Mayonnaise.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Real-time processing of high-throughput quantitative phase microscopy data using a Jetson Orin Nano

Journal Article Biophotonics Discovery · January 1, 2026 Significance: Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is a holographic imaging technique often applied to studying cell morphology. To advance QPM for clinical applications, high-throughput implementations have been developed to allow imaging of thousands of c ... Full text Cite

Spectroscopic analysis of volumetric OCT data for the automated measurement of scatterer size.

Journal Article Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision · September 2025 Spectroscopic optical coherence tomography enables an accurate estimation of scatterer size by computing the correlation distance (CD) function. For calibration and accuracy verification, polystyrene spheres are commonly used as size standards. However, an ... Full text Cite

Enhanced penetration depth in optical coherence tomography and photoacoustic microscopy <i>in vivo</i> enabled by absorbing dye molecules.

Journal Article Optica · January 2025 The scattering and absorption of light within biological tissue severely limits the penetration depth of optical imaging techniques. Recently, it has been found that water-soluble, strongly absorbing dye molecules, such as tartrazine, can achieve in viv ... Full text Cite
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