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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26d

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.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26d

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.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26d

Someone warmed up a cinnamon roll for breakfast in the microwave, and now the entire floor smells like cinnamon deliciousness.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Aug 19

One year, I had a game in my lab that was "what do you think the most expensive thing in the room is?"

The change in behavior was amazing (and immediate).

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Apr 6

I'm jumping in mid-stream, but I had lagrangian in 2nd year, and I thought it worked well.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Mar 18

More info:

📍 where: Los Angeles

⏰ when: June 2025 start; full-time in summer & part-time during acad year

💡 Pay: $24-26/hr DOE

Degrees: Comp Sci, Eng, Physics, really any STEM field.

📩 Apply by sending your resume and cover letter to education-at-emila.org
@academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Mar 12

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.
🧪💡
@academic-chatter.bsky.social

Kylie Trettner immediately after completing her PhD defense!

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · Mar 3

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

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thank you for sharing! We're very excited about the results!

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Feb 27

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 🧪

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Feb 19

Had a wonderful time catching up with Justine at @spie.org Photonics West!

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Laser Focus World magazine @laserfocusworld.bsky.social · Feb 18

www.laserfocusworld.com/podcasts/art...
#photonics @jmurphoton.bsky.social @drarmani.bsky.social

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 ...

www.laserfocusworld.com

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Feb 14

Valentine's exchange, lab style.

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SPIE @spie.org · Feb 12

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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Rachel Won @rachelpcwon.bsky.social · Feb 3

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 💃🎉🎊🥳💃

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jan 29

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!

@spie.org 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Sile, Jess, and Andrea at Photonics West

Rachel Grange and Andrea Armani at Photonics west

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jan 26

Best part of conferences - catching up with former team members who are now rockstars!! 🌟

@academic-chatter.bsky.social @spie.org 🧪💡

Imran Cheema and Andrea Armani at Photonics West

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jan 24

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jan 22

Just put the finishing touches on my slides for Photonics West BIOS!! Hope to see everyone there next week (or weekend) in San Fran! 💡
@spie.org @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · Jan 17

Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#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

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