Sixian You

Massachusetts Institute of Techology

Sixian You, Ph.D., is the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT EECS department, and a Principal Investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Sixian did her doctorate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2019), obtained bacherlo’s from HUST (2013), and completed her postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley. (2021).

Her research interests are in biophotonics and microscopy, with an emphasis on developing hardware and algorithms to overcome longstanding imaging limitations for biomedical translation. She has been the recipient of NSF CAREER Award, SCIALOG (Advancing Bioimaging) Award, Amazon Research Award, Microscopy Innovation Award, McGinnis Medical Innovation Graduate Inaugural Fellowship, Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship (UIUC), and Nikon Photomicrography Competition Image of Distinction award. Her work has been featured on the Cancer Research Cover, PNAS Cover, and Nature Communications Editors’ Highlight.