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Prof. Andrea Armani
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Living duality of careers: Prof of Engineering & Sr Director of Engineering; Fellow (Fella) of many technical societies; explores photonics, materials, & diagnostics; loves cats, dogs, chocolate, & family. Personal opinions. (Previously: @ProfArmani)
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Congratulations to Lexie Scholtz who just defended her PhD in BME! She's headed off on Monday to KLA to be an applications and packaging engineer!!

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Right after a successful PhD defense Image of the entire research lab celebrating Lexie Scholtz's defense
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I can't stop thinking about this. It was so amazing to see people working together - literally or just by being patient when their commute was put on hold - to save a little life. It was truly heartwarming.
drarmani.bsky.social Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Sep 18
If you're the person who just stopped all traffic on the CA10 to try to catch a tiny gray kitten or the guy who crawled under your Prius to pull the little guy out of your wheel well after he got scared...

Thank you for making the world a better place.
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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If you're the person who just stopped all traffic on the CA10 to try to catch a tiny gray kitten or the guy who crawled under your Prius to pull the little guy out of your wheel well after he got scared...

Thank you for making the world a better place.
September 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Someone warmed up a cinnamon roll for breakfast in the microwave, and now the entire floor smells like cinnamon deliciousness.
September 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Never thought I'd use my engineering/physics skills like this! 😂

But if you love Squid Games and science/engineering, this @netflix.com Tudum video might be for you!

Link: www.netflix.com/tudum/videos...

🧪💡 #squidgames #engineering #science
Experts Explain How to Win the Games in 'Squid Game'
Experts break down fan strategies for 'Squid Game' challenges like Mingle, Glass Bridge, Dalgona, Tug of War, Rock Paper Scissors Minus One, Six-Legged Pentathlon, Red Light Green Light, and more. Could your survival plan actually work?
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July 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
drarmani.bsky.social
Never thought I'd use my engineering/physics skills like this! 😂

But if you love Squid Games and science/engineering, this @netflix.com Tudum video might be for you!

Link: www.netflix.com/tudum/videos...

🧪💡 #squidgames #engineering #science
Experts Explain How to Win the Games in 'Squid Game'
Experts break down fan strategies for 'Squid Game' challenges like Mingle, Glass Bridge, Dalgona, Tug of War, Rock Paper Scissors Minus One, Six-Legged Pentathlon, Red Light Green Light, and more. Could your survival plan actually work?
www.netflix.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Are you an undergrad passionate about cutting-edge biotechnology research & looking to make a difference in healthcare? We're hiring a 1yr intern!

Possible efforts:
🔹 Designing & building optical imaging systems
🔹 Developing image analysis algorithms
🔹 Performing data acquisition & analysis
March 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Made some St. Patrick's Day treats for the team! Mini-chocolate torts (shaped like four leaf clovers) and orange sugar cookies (with green clovers painted on in sparkly dust).

May everyone have a little luck today! 🍀

@academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪
St. Patrick's Day themed chocolate torte and sugar cookies.
March 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Congratulations to Kylie Trettner who just defended her PhD in Chemical Engineering! We wish her all the best as she embarks on an exciting new journey as a scientific analyst in the VC world.
🧪💡
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Kylie Trettner immediately after completing her PhD defense!
March 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Enhanced fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy denoising via principal component analysis by Andrea M Armani and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fig. 1: Phasor analysis workflows for FLIM data. After image acquisition on a FLIM system, the data is analyzed using different approaches. (a) Filtered phasor analysis method (FPA) includes image selection based on total counts, dynamic thresholding, and application of a selective smoothing filter. (b) Thresholded phasor analysis (TPA) only involves the application of an adaptive threshold. (c) Noise-corrected Principal Component Analysis (NC- PCA) begins with a Poisson noise normalization, then application of PCA, and subsequent thresholding and phasor transformation
March 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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My favorite: I buy some particles from a company, & I need to know the composition for some modeling. I politely reach out & ask, only to be told it's a "trade secret".

I'll see your trade secret and raise you a TEM with EDX. 😏😂
#chemsky 🧪
February 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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PODCAST: Interview with Andrea Armani, University of Southern California
Episode 39 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Dr. Andrea Armani, senior director of engineering and physical sciences at the Ellison Medical Institute and ...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Valentine's exchange, lab style.

💡🧪💕
Exchanging valentines Exchanging valentines
February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Contribute to the 2025 #SPIE Global Optics & Photonics Salary Report and be entered to win a trip to an SPIE event!

This report is the longest-running and largest salary survey in optics and #photonics, and the community's responses are why! Take the survey here: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8033768/b...
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February 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Meeting up #WomeninOptics #PhotonicsWest @spie.org Sile NIC Chormaic, Clara Saraceno, Giulia Tagliabue, @rachelgrange.bsky.social, Andrea Redondo-Blanco, @drarmani.bsky.social, @astchalyan.bsky.social and Sona Hosseini 💃🎉🎊🥳💃
February 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Having an amazing time at #PhotonicsWest! Watched an incredible series of talks on #quantum optics behaviors and devices and caught up with friends at a WiO event!

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Sile, Jess, and Andrea at Photonics West Rachel Grange and Andrea Armani at Photonics west Kartik and Andrea at photonics west
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Best part of conferences - catching up with former team members who are now rockstars!! 🌟

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Imran Cheema and Andrea Armani at Photonics West
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Just put the finishing touches on my slides for Photonics West BIOS!! Hope to see everyone there next week (or weekend) in San Fran! 💡
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January 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm.

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#lifegoals 🎉💡🧪
Celebratory cake highlighting 2024 achievements! Yasaman Moradi doing the honors and cutting the 2024 cake Photo of Yasaman Moradi's last team meeting at EMI
January 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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My manuscript main text is currently 4756 words.

Checking journal...

The word limit is 3000.

😬

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ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying and saying `` i 'm fine , it 's fine `` .
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January 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034
January 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happy New Year!! 🎆
January 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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In addition to tracking who has served on panels, it would be great if NIH (& others) tracked who had been asked.

I just received my 4th request in 2 months.

Also, this epitomizes the service aspect of academia. The last time I had NIH funding was in the 2010's.
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December 28, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Team bonding before the holiday break filled with creativity and laughter!

(Playing with clay)

🧪 #academicsky #teambonding
Student making things from clay. Team bonding activity - making things from clay. Little clay snowman
December 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Congratulations to #USC PhD student and group member Yasaman Moradi who just successfully defended her PhD in chemical engineering!!

🧪 #academicsky #PhDdone #engineering
Yasaman Moradi and Andrea Armani (her PhD advisor) right after Yasaman's successful PhD thesis defense on Dec 10, 2024.
December 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM