**About the Editors**

**Aniruddha Ray** is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. He completed his Bachelors and Master's in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2008, and completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 2013. He received two post-doctoral fellowships from the University of California, Los Angeles (2015–2018) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (2014–2015). He has also worked in many different research labs, including the Max Planck Institute for the science of light in Erlangen, Germany, the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the National Tshinghua University in Taiwan on different applications of photonics. His research interests are utilizing nanotechnology and multi-modal optical imaging for disease diagnostics and treatment. Dr. Ray has received several fellowships including NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award and the SPIE student scholarship. He has over 30 peer reviewed journal articles and several patents pending.

**Hatice Ceylan Koydemir** is a senior researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. Her research interests include biophotonics, optical sensors, MEMS-based biosensors, micro-fabrication technologies, and lab-on-a-chip devices for point-of-care diagnosis and analysis. Ceylan Koydemir received her B.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering in 2004, her minor degree in Food Engineering in 2004, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering in 2007 and 2013, respectively, from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey. Following her Ph.D., she joined the Ozcan Research Group at UCLA as a postdoctoral researcher. She was a recipient of the METU Ph.D. Thesis of Year Award in 2013, Prof. Dr. Hasan Orbey Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2011 and Dr. Haluk Sanver Technology Award in 2013, which was given by the Department of Chemical Engineering at METU. She has written more than 27 peer-reviewed articles, 75+ conference presentations, a book chapter, as well as one issued and five pending patent applications.
